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"A stunningly original, lushly illustrated vision for a Green Utopia, published on the 500th anniversary of the original Big Idea. Five hundred years ago a powerful new word was unleashed upon the world when Thomas More published his book Utopia, about an island paradise far away from his troubled land. It was an instant hit, and the literati across Europe couldn't get enough of its blend of social fantasy with a deep desire for a better world. Five...
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The Social Tranformations of Scandinavian Cities highlights the changing face of social sustainability and social disintegration in Scandinavian cities against the backdrop of ongoing global societal transformations. It contributes to the literature on urban development in advanced societies by bringing in theoretical and empirical analyses of how migration, inequality, residential segregation, and changes in national and local policy intersects and...
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Frecuentemente pensamos en la ciudad como algo estático, acabado, que siempre estuvo y siempre estará más o menos igual. A veces pensamos en la ciudad como algo que siempre fue como la hemos conocido y frecuentemente nos lleva a una seria sensación de pérdida cuando la vemos cambiar y evolucionar hacia unas formas que nos resultan extrañas y nos fuerzan a la adaptación. Curiosa paradoja, por cierto, cuando la ciudad es la mayor creación del...
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La renovación urbana constituye hoy en día un fenómeno mundial, vinculado a la lógica del capitalismo neoliberal y a políticas urbanas que enarbolan los mismos discursos y las mismas propuestas en ciudades que poco tienen en común. Las investigaciones que se presentan en este volumen buscan entender los cambios que ocurren actualmente en esa parte de la Ciudad de México donde el fenómeno de la renovación urbana se manifiesta de manera muy...
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Producto de la ejecución del proyecto de investigación "Actividad física y parques en Bucaramanga, caracterización y factores relacionados con su uso", se presenta este libro dirigido a la comunidad en general y en especial a la bumanguesa, con el fin de proporcionar información de calidad, actualizada y útil, en términos sencillos, que contribuya al conocimiento de los parques de la ciudad, su importancia dentro del ecosistema urbano y la...
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A visionary survey of urbanism from the Middle Ages to the late 1930s, with a new introduction by Thomas Fisher Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford-a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker-The Culture of Cities is a call for communal action to rebuild the urban world on a sounder human foundation. First published in 1938, this radical investigation into the human...
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Egypt has placed its hopes on developing its vast and empty deserts as the ultimate solution to the country's problems. New cities, new farms, new industrial zones, new tourism resorts, and new development corridors, all have been promoted for over half a century to create a modern Egypt and to pull tens of millions of people away from the increasingly crowded Nile Valley into the desert hinterland. The results, in spite of colossal expenditures and...
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In Constructive Feminism, Daphne Spain examines the deliberate and unintended spatial consequences of feminism's second wave, a social movement dedicated to reconfiguring power relations between women and men. Placing the women's movement of the 1970s in the context of other social movements that have changed the use of urban space, Spain argues that reform feminists used the legal system to end the mandatory segregation of women and men in public...
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Dark Matters explores the city at night as a place and time within, which escape from the confines of the daytime is possible. More specifically, it is a state of being. There is a long history of night walking, often integral to shady worlds of miscreants, shift workers and transgressors. Yet the night offers much to be enjoyed beyond vice. Night by definition contrasts day, summoning notions of darkness and fear. But, another night exists out there....
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In Mallparks, Michael T. Friedman observes that as cathedrals represented power relations in medieval towns and skyscrapers epitomized those within industrial cities, sports stadiums exemplify urban American consumption at the turn of the twenty-first century. Grounded in Henri Lefebvre and George Ritzer's spatial theories in their analyses of consumption spaces, Mallparks examines how the designers of this generation of baseball stadiums follow the...
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The Embrace of Buildings provides an overview of the key factors, topics, and issues in Anglo-American urbanism: the origins and development of the suburban ideal, the role of federal policies and spending priorities in shaping the built environment, the rise of the private automobile as the primary mode of transportation, the effects of functional zoning laws, the relation between the public realm and the quality of civic discourse, the influence...
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In From Mobility to Accessibility, an expert team of researchers flips the tables on the standard models for evaluating regional transportation performance. Jonathan Levine, Joe Grengs, and Louis A. Merlin argue for an "accessibility shift" whereby transportation planning, and the transportation dimensions of land-use planning, would be based on people's ability to reach destinations, rather than on their ability to travel fast. Existing models for...
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After nearly twenty years of studying and teaching urban planning and development, this is a love letter and a proposal by Dr. Annalise Fonza. It illuminates what she has learned about the redevelopment of former black ghettos and black urban communities, and in light of her constant engagement with urban and regional planners and black urban residents, in various urban cities across the United States. Dr. Fonza's first signicant experience with the...
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The Accidental Playground explores the remarkable landscape created by individuals and small groups who occupied and rebuilt an abandoned Brooklyn waterfront. While local residents, activists, garbage haulers, real estate developers, speculators, and two city administrations fought over the fate of the former Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal (BEDT), others simply took to this decaying edge, transforming it into a unique venue for leisure, creative,...
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The spaces we inhabit– from homes and workspaces to city streets-mediate community, creativity, and our very identity. Using insights from environmental psychology, design, and architecture, The Shaping of Us shows how the built and natural worlds subtly influence our behavior, health, and personality. Exploring ideas such as "ruin porn" and "ninja-proof seating," mysteries of how we interact with the physical spaces around us are revealed. From...
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City planning in the GTHA has been mired in political grandstanding for the past decade, The New Urban Agenda offers a plain language solution to the issues plaguing the GTHA. Politics in the Greater Toronto, Hamilton Area (GTHA) have become increasingly divisive over the past decade, and solutions to the city's problems have become hot-topic issues debated in council and the press, but never finding resolution. The New Urban Agenda is equal parts...
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"Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neo-pastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists--all have been drawn to Detroit's baroquely decaying, nothing-left-to-lose...
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“Urban Regeneration-A Manifesto for transforming UK Cities in the Age of Climate Change” explores and offers guidance on the complex process of how to transform cities, continuing the unfinished project of the seminal 1999 text Towards an Urban Renaissance. It is a 21st-century manifesto of urban principles compiled by a prominent urbanist, for the regeneration of UK cities, focusing on the characteristics of a 'good place' and the strategies...
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Urban public spaces, from the streets and squares of Buenos Aires to Zuccotti Park in New York City, have become the emblematic sites of contentious politics in the twenty-first century. As the contributors to The City Is the Factory argue, this resurgent politics of the square is itself part of a broader shift in the primary locations and targets of popular protest from the workplace to the city. This shift is due to an array of intersecting developments:...
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In postapartheid Johannesburg, tensions of race and class manifest themselves starkly in struggles over "rights to the city." Real-estate developers and the very poor fight for control of space as the municipal administration steps aside, almost powerless to shape the direction of change. Having ceded control of development to the private sector, the Johannesburg city government has all but abandoned residential planning to the unpredictability of...
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