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Book SynopsisThe last decade has seen the rise of urban design which has taken a central position in the new agendas for urban regeneration and renaissance. Urban design has moved from marginality to mainstream. The principles espoused by urban designers over the past thirty years are now accepted as key to a better urban environment and as we move towards greater sustainability, different ideas are emerging that are challenging some of the accepted urban design norms; urban design is at a watershed. Urban Design Futures presents essays from an international cast of authors to review progress and explore emerging ideas: should urban design reflect the future rather than recreate the past? What are the new driving forces that will shape urban living and hence urban design in the future? This book explores new concepts and points the way towards a series of urban design paradigms for the twenty-first century.Trade Review'The urban design primer of the year ... This is a book covering the richness of the urban design debate with ideas ranging from the inspiring to the absolutely barmy - It is a vital introductory read for students of urban design and a valuable pot pourri of the current urban design debate.' - Green Places'The value of this collection ... is that it does not limit itself to recount what is but to challenge established orthodoxies - including those of existing urban designers.' - Urban Design'The urban design primer of the year ... This is a book covering the richness of the urban design debate with ideas ranging from the inspiring to the absolutely barmy – It is a vital introductory read for students of urban design and a valuable pot pourri of the current urban design debate.' – Green Places'The value of this collection ... is that it does not limit itself to recount what is but to challenge established orthodoxies – including those of existing urban designers.' – Urban DesignTable of ContentsPart 1: Urban Design Comes of Age: The Bigger Picture Part 2: Connecting Social Spaces: Creating the Public Realm Part 3: Sustainability Through Technology: Creating New Typologies Part 4: Networks Expand Choice: New Frameworks for Urbanism

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Book SynopsisIn both the UK and the US there is a sense of dissatisfaction and pessimism about the state of urban environments, particularly with the quality of everyday public spaces. Explanations for this have emphasized the poor quality of design that characterizes many new public spaces; spaces that are dominated by parking, roads infrastructure, introspective buildings, a lack of enclosure and a poor sense of place, and which in different ways for different groups are too often exclusionary.Yet many well designed public spaces have also experienced decline and neglect, as the services and activities upon which the continuing quality of those spaces have been subject to the same constraints and pressures for change as public services in general. These issues touch upon the daily management of public space, that is, the coordination of the many different activities that constantly define and redefine the characteristics and quality of public space.This book draws on three empirical projects to examine the questions of public space management on an international stage. They are set within a context of theoretical debates about public space, its history, contemporary patterns of use and changing nature in western society, and about the new management approaches that are increasingly being adopted.Table of ContentsPart 1: Conceptualising Public Space and its Management 1. The Use and Nature of Public Space 2. Public Space through History 3. Contemporary Debates and Public Space 4. A Typology of Management Approaches Part 2: Investigating Public Space Management 5. Three Studies, Three Related Research Approaches 6. One Country, Multiple Endemic Problems 7. One Country, Twelve Innovative Authorities 8. Eleven Countries, Eleven Innovative Cities 9. Eleven Innovative Cities, Many Ways Forward 10. Two World Cities, Three Iconic Spaces 11. Three Iconic Spaces, Two In-Depth Analyses 12. Debates, Problems and Possible Solutions

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Book SynopsisThese essays, from leading names in the field, weave together the parallels and differences between the past and present of civic art. Offering prospects for the first decades of the twenty-first century, the authors open up a broad international dialogue on civic art, which relates historical practice to the contemporary meaning of civic art and its application to community building within todayâs multi-cultural modern cities.The volume brings together the rich perspectives on the thought, practice and influence of leading figures from the great era of civic art that began in the nineteenth century and blossomed in the early twentieth century as documented in the works of Werner Hegemann and his contemporaries and considered fundamental to contemporary practice. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Civic Art Then and Now Part 1: Camillo Sitte and the Picturesque: Precedents and Perspectives Part 2: International Exchanges Camillo Sitte Part 3: The Metropolitan Context

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Book SynopsisThis is an introduction to the secrets of Urban Design Management (UDM). The book examines the roles of the players involved in land-use projects and describes good collaborative methods of practice in project-based urban design and planning, putting emphasis on the creative co-operative skills and the wide knowledge of the participants in a working group. The role of the architect is examined in relation to design, planning and project management with particular emphasis on collaboration and negotiation skills. Specific issues considered include: The make-up of a good project team Ways to make the project team function together Objectives and benefits of project-orientated planning The need to take local characteristics into account in project-orientated planning The preparation required for a co-operative planning process and how initial information can be collected and used Table of ContentsForeword Preface Introduction Part 1: The Perfect Match Part 2: Togetherness Part 3: Creating Attractiveness Part 4: Setting Things in their Context Part 5: Starting Slow in order to Go Fast Part 6:Project Tools Part 7: Fitting in a Player's Strategy Part 8: Urban Design Management

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Book SynopsisThis new collection traces the notion of urban design, its principals and criteria with a focus on key areas such as the new urban developments of Dubai and Shanghai. This set of volumes will appeal to those interested in Urban Geography and cities and their infrastructure.

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Book SynopsisSome thirty years ago the small Metropolitan County of Grotton found itself bathed in the bright glare of publicity as The Grotton Papers lifted the lid on the inner workings of the six planning departments of this hitherto little remarked corner of England.The intervening years have seen Grotton's County Council aim at the admirable and mostly achievable target of becoming average with moderate prospects of remaining average in the Government rankings, and the struggles of the District Councils to come to terms with planning in the late twentieth â let alone twenty-first â century are once again under the spotlight.The original authors of The Grotton Papers have come together once more to offer an experienced and surprisingly unjaundiced look at the way the British planning system works. Their comprehensive survey allows real lessons to be learnt from what Grotton has â and just as importantly hasn't â done since they were last in town.Grotton Revisited is without doubt the finest (and indeed the only) satirical book on this vitally important subject. It is suitable for planners of all ages and abilities, and will be essential reading for anyone who has ever had contact with the planning system, or thinks they may know someone who has. First class entertainment and education for professionals and general readers alike.Published in association with the RTPI.Trade Review"Loved it , I almost had to be resuscitated – Grotton Revisited will immediately become the standard text on Planning Practice in every planning school in the UK and far beyond. The fact that it will cause every planning student in the land to abandon their courses, for alternative vocations in investment banking or alternative therapies, is unfortunate"– Professor Sir Peter Hall, Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration, University College London, UK"This book makes you laugh with the planning system, not at it! A timely reminder of the importance of planning in all our lives and the problems which always accompany attempts at perfection" – John Gummer, Conservative MP for Suffolk Coastal and former Secretary of State for the Environment, UK"It gave me a great deal of pleasure to review my acquaintance with your area’s crumbling infrastructure, decaying terraces, and blighted Country Park" – Nick Raynsford, Labour MP for Greenwich and Woolwich and Former Minister for Planning, UK"Grotton Revisited exposes with a biting satire and razor-sharp wit the inadequacies and inefficiencies of the planning system, and lays bare the dull, clumsy, two-dimensional box-ticking that underpins so much of the system... This is a wonderfully funny book... hopefully it will also act as a catalyst for reform" – Norman Baker, Lib Dem MP for Lewes, UK"Like a spoof April 1 general election poster (courtesy of The Guardian in 2010) which briefly fooled too many serious people, this classic satire-cum-parody-meets-real-life will - sadly - touch a raw nerve, as anyone dealing with officialdom, and its increasingly unfathomable language in the 90s and Noughties will attest!... A fabulous read!" – Peter Hetherington, former Guardian Regional Affairs Editor and TCPA Vice President"The funny thing is, it's no joke." – Michael Hebbert, University of Manchester, UK"It is an extremely funny book, but close enough to the reality of planning practice to be unsettling. It will certainly make you laugh, but it will be a rather nervous sort of laughter." – Australian Planner"Loved it , I almost had to be resuscitated – Grotton Revisited will immediately become the standard text on Planning Practice in every planning school in the UK and far beyond. The fact that it will cause every planning student in the land to abandon their courses, for alternative vocations in investment banking or alternative therapies, is unfortunate"– Professor Sir Peter Hall, Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration, University College London, UK"This book makes you laugh with the planning system, not at it! A timely reminder of the importance of planning in all our lives and the problems which always accompany attempts at perfection" – John Gummer, Conservative MP for Suffolk Coastal and former Secretary of State for the Environment, UK"It gave me a great deal of pleasure to review my acquaintance with your area’s crumbling infrastructure, decaying terraces, and blighted Country Park" – Nick Raynsford, Labour MP for Greenwich and Woolwich and Former Minister for Planning, UK"Grotton Revisited exposes with a biting satire and razor-sharp wit the inadequacies and inefficiencies of the planning system, and lays bare the dull, clumsy, two-dimensional box-ticking that underpins so much of the system... This is a wonderfully funny book... hopefully it will also act as a catalyst for reform" – Norman Baker, Lib Dem MP for Lewes, UK"Like a spoof April 1 general election poster (courtesy of The Guardian in 2010) which briefly fooled too many serious people, this classic satire-cum-parody-meets-real-life will - sadly - touch a raw nerve, as anyone dealing with officialdom, and its increasingly unfathomable language in the 90s and Noughties will attest!... A fabulous read!" – Peter Hetherington, former Guardian Regional Affairs Editor and TCPA Vice President"The funny thing is, it's no joke." – Michael Hebbert, University of Manchester, UKTable of ContentsMessage from the President of the Royal Town Planning Institute 1. Planning in Crisis 2. The County of Grotton and the Five Districts of Which it is Comprised 3. The Development Plan in Crisis 4. Development Management in Crisis: A Case Study from Dunromin 5. Regeneration in Crisis 6. The Countryside in Crisis 7. Transport in Crisis 8. The Environment in Crisis, or What’s Posterity Ever Done for Me? 9. Management in Crisis The Grotton Advertiser: a Special Supplement to mark the 31st Anniversary of the 1979 "Planning in Crisis" Conference Appendices 10. Notes for delegates to the "Planning in Crisis" Conference 2010 11. An Invitation to the Secretary of State to address the Conference 12. An Important Decision relating to a Planning Appeal 13. An Extract from the Grotton Design Guide 14. An Appeal on Behalf of the Patrick Abercrombie Home for Distressed Planners by Alexander Quibble CB. Index

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Book SynopsisUrban Identity is the second in the successful Learning from Place series that draws upon the wealth of experience in the Academy of Urbanism. This edition deals with the subject of urban identity and character. Why is it that all modern towns and cities look the same, as they become dominated by identikit buildings, multi-national corporations, even arbitrarily imposed urban design rules? How can we preserve and foster the sense of local identity and character that so value without falling into the trap of historical pastiche?Four leading urban thinkers take this theme as the staring point for chapters on urban identity. The classical architect Robert Adam delivers a broadside to modern architecture that he sees as the multi-national face of globalism. The architect and academic John Worthington ponders the difference between how a place is seen, its identity and how it wants to be seen, its brand. While the architects Anthony Reddy from Ireland and Trade Review"Urban Identity brims with fascinating and sometimes controversial insights and opinions on urbanism." – LonaardTable of ContentsForeword. Introduction. Cities. Identity 01. Towns. Identity 02. Neighbourhoods. Streets. Identity 03. Places. Endpiece

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Book SynopsisFar more than being about a single artwork, this book participates in the myriad conversations and debates on the meaning of public art.

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Book SynopsisLondon, once known as the Metropole, was the mother city at the heart of a vast empire which at its peak encompassed a quarter of all land on the planet. Its maternal name belied a profoundly hierarchical and unequal relationship with power radiating outwards from the urban heart, and territorial riches feeding back in return. The British Empire has long since collapsed but in its place has risen a new world power; globalised capitalism. London rebranded an ''investment opportunity'' is now a city of continuous demolition, shifting cranes, and glittering new high rises.

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Book SynopsisUrban redevelopment in American cities is neither easy nor quick. It takes a delicate alignment of goals, power, leadership and sustained advocacy on the part of many. Rebuilding the American City highlights 15 urban design and planning projects in the U.S. that have been catalysts for their downtownsyet were implemented during the tumultuous start of the 21st century. The book presents five paradigms for redevelopment and a range of perspectives on the complexities, successes and challenges inherent to rebuilding American cities today. Rebuilding the American City is essential reading for practitioners and students in urban design, planning, and public policy looking for diverse models of urban transformation to create resilient urban cores.Trade Review"There’s plenty to like in Rebuilding the American City: Design and Strategy for the 21st Century Urban Core...After a succinct introduction, 15 U.S. case studies show both the public side and the messy underside of rebuilding key parts of cities....This book is the real deal, worth a dozen thinly disguised puff pieces and not to be confused with them." -- Harold Henderson, Planning Magazine"Transforming our cities, building a bridge to a more sustainable and productive way of life, is both essential and hard work. This book provides a highly informative account of how 15 US cities succeeded by leveraging their key assets – anchor institutions, natural features, existing momentum, obsolescent lands and transit investment – to do so." –Ken Greenberg, Greenberg Consultants"Without ignoring issues of equity and displacement, Rebuilding American Cities celebrates the inventiveness of cities as they leverage the assets of the city by breaking down barriers, blurring boundaries, and building connections. In an age when government no longer leads in rebuilding cities, the authors tell the behind –the-scenes story of how public, private, and nonprofit civic entrepreneurs collaborate to make it happen. Rebuilding American Cities is essential reading for those who want to know how urban revitalization really happens from the viewpoint of those who actually make it happen." –Todd Swanstrom, Des Lee Professor, University of Missouri—St. LouisTable of ContentsIntroduction Section 1. The Anchor Institution: Leveraging Stability 1.1 Buffalo, NY—Buffalo Niagara Medical campus 1.2 New Orleans, LA—Tulane City Center 1.3 Philadelphia, PA—University of Pennsylvania PennConnects Section 2. The Urban River: Leveraging a Natural Resource 2.1 Chattanooga, TN—21st Century Waterfront 2.2 Green Bay, WI—CityDeck 2.3 New York, NY—Brooklyn Bridge Park Section 3. The Existing Urban Fabric: Leveraging the Existing Condition 3.1 Saint Louis, MO—Botanical Heights 3.2 San Antonio, TX—Pearl District 3.3 San Francisco, CA—Proxy Section 4. The Urban Park System: Leveraging Underutilized Land and Infrastructure 4.1 Atlanta, GA—BeltLine 4.2 Birmingham, AL—Railroad Park 4.3 Houston, TX—Buffalo Bayou Section 5. The Downtown District: Leveraging Proximities and Transit 5.1 Denver, CO—Union Station 5.2 Louisville, KY—West Main Street 5.3 Portland, OR—South Waterfront Appendix: Methodology

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Book SynopsisPeter Hemmersam is Professor in Urban Design at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and he directs the Oslo Centre for Urban and Landscape Studies, Norway.Trade ReviewHemmersam charts the unique motives and circumstances that have produced a distinct form of urbanism with comprehensive aplomb. The book provides urgent insight into the formation of Arctic cities and their trajectories from both a global polar view and from on the fragile ground in which they emerge. * Mason White, University of Toronto, Canada, founding partner, LATERAL OFFICE *In an increasingly relevant and global North, Peter Hemmersam brings a perspective of urbanism. Russia, Canada and Greenland of the last century offer Hemmersam ideas of relationships, and the historical and political frameworks that drive the built form. Hemmersam recognizes Indigenous communities and knowledge that provide a blueprint for thriving within the landscapes, which has been both embraced and ignored by settlers. With a sense of utility and in a place of extremes, we consider a new architecture and a new plan for imagining urban futures in the Arctic. * Julie Decker, Museum Director/CEO, Anchorage Museum, USA *Within a context of accelerated climate change, Hemmersam’s book brings much needed expertise to fill a void in scholarship that is long overdue for understanding the legacy and future of architecture and urban design in the incredibly important, complex, and rapidly changing Arctic region. * Matthew Jull, PhD, Arctic Design Group, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Maps Preface Introduction Part One: Framing the Arctic City 1. Introducing the Arctic 2. Building cities in the Arctic 3. Studying Arctic cities Part Two: Arctic urban development 4. Developing Russia's Arctic cities 5. Developing Canada's Arctic cities 6. Developing Greenland's cities Part Three: Constructing the Arctic city 7. Defining Arctic urbanism 8. The architects of the Arctic city 9. Learning from the Arctic city Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDiasporic Agencies addresses the neglected subject of how architecture and urban design can respond to the consequences of increasing migration. Arguing that diasporic inhabitations can only be understood as the co-production of space, subjectivity and politics, the book explores questions of difference, belonging and movement in the city. Through focusing on a series of examples, it reveals how diasporas produce new types of spaces and develop new subjectivities in the contemporary European metropolis. It explores the way in which geo-politics affects individual lives and how national and regional borders inscribe themselves onto diasporic bodies. The book claims that the multiple belongings of diasporic citizens, half-here and half-there, provoke a crisis in the standard modes of architectural representation that tend to homogenise and flatten experience. Instead Diasporic Agencies makes a case for a non-representational approach, where the displacement of the diasporic subject and tTable of ContentsDiasporic Agencies: Mapping the City Otherwise

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Book SynopsisRobert Harland is a lecturer in visual communication at Loughborough University, UK. Before moving into academia, he ran his own graphic design practice, Harland Design.Trade ReviewRob Harland's welcome, original and ultimately provocative book considerably widens the range of objects deemed to be urban/graphic design and provides some sophisticated analytical and critical tools with which to explain those objects. If they have any sense, it will be welcomed and used by graphic/urban designers, design theorists, urban and cultural geographers, as well as town and city planners. * Malcolm Barnard, senior lecturer in visual culture at Loughborough University, UK *Robert Harland has done nothing less than redefine graphic design as a spatial practice. He shows how an intricate text of words and images mirrors the flux of people and capital through urban space. Graphic design touches nearly every transaction in the life of a city. * Ellen Lupton, Senior Curator at the Smithsonian Design Museum and Director of the MFA Graphic Design Program at Maryland Institute College of Art, USA *Graphic Design in Urban Environments shines light into the little-explored areas between architecture, urban design and graphic design. The light reveals tantalising new ways to frame discussions of how cities function, and are designed, conceived and experienced. Its audience is as broad as the subject areas it covers – urban geography, architecture, urban design, graphic design, and it offers a critical lens for reconsidering ideas of legibility and imageability in the built environment. Most interestingly, Graphic Design in Urban Environments challenges prevailing conceptions about how we experience, understand and read cities, architecture and places. The discourse has been enlivened by this engaging book. * Neil Stacey, Senior Lecturer in Architecture at Leicester School of Architecture, UK *The main discussions proposed by Harland... are original and timely. He very convincingly explains how graphic and communication design in the urban environment have been underrepresented or even ignored in graphic design historiography and in academic and educational definitions of the field, particularly in the UK. He also effectively demonstrates the difficulties faced by urban theorists who tried to describe the presence and relevance of graphic design artefacts in the public sphere, and the gaps and shortcomings of their approach. The careful descriptions and analysis presented in the book offer a framework for thinking about urban graphic interventions in multiple scales and settings. The result is a relevant contribution to design research, and should stimulate further and welcome debates on the interface between graphic design, communication, and urban design. * The Design Journal *Graphic Design in Urban Environments should be useful to anyone interested in innovative design theory and practice. -- S. Skaggs, University of Louisville * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction Argument History Imageability Pattern Representamen Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis pioneering book tells the story of urban development in Scotland over the course of a millennium, drawing on original research into more than thirty towns, from the smallest settlements to major cities.

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Book SynopsisThis volume traces the history of theEdinburgh Incorporation of Mary's Chapel, which sought to control the capital's building trades and defend their privileges. By utilising a range of previously missing charters and archival documents, the author offers a new perspective on the prestigious craft guild in its 542 years of existence.

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Book SynopsisRemarkably, more than half of the world's population now lives in cities, and the numbers grow daily as people abandon rural areas. This fully updated and revised seventh edition of the classic text offers readers a comprehensive set of tools for understanding the urban landscape, and, by extension, the world's politics, cultures, and economies. Providing a sweeping overview of world urban geography, noted experts explore the eleven major global regions. Each regional chapter considers urban history, economy, culture, and environment, as well as urban spatial models and problems and prospects. Each begins with two facing pages: a regional map that shows the major cities and a table of basic statistical information about cities and urbanization in each region and a list of ten salient points about that region’s urban experience. Chapters conclude with a list of references, including films and webpages, which can be used by the student and instructor for additional information about specific cities. This edition adds the important new themes of climate change and migration, while continuing to focus on specifically on sustainability, water, technology, social and environmental justice, security and conflict, the history of urban settlement, urban planning trends, and daily life. Vignettes of key cities give the reader a vivid understanding of daily life and the "spirit of place." The opening chapter presents an overview of key terms and concepts and explores contemporary world urbanization, and a concluding chapter projects the world's urban future. Liberally illustrated in full color with a new selection of photographs, maps, and diagrams, the text also includes a rich array of textboxes to highlight key topics ranging from migration and immigration to LBGTQ activism, human security, and climate change. Clearly written and timely, Cities of the World will be invaluable for those teaching introductory or advanced classes on global cities, regional geography, the developing world, and urban studies. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Chapter One: World Urban Development—Jessica K. Graybill, Maureen Hays-Mitchell, and Donald J. Zeigler Chapter Two: Cities of the United States and Canada—Nathaniel M. Lewis and Kai Kentamaa-Squires Chapter Three: Cities of Middle America—Rebecca Clouser, Yadira Mireya Méndez Lemus, and John Finn Chapter Four: Cities of South America—Brian J. Godfrey, Maureen Hays-Mitchell, and Risa Whitson Chapter Five: Cities of Europe—Linda McCarthy, Joseph Brady, and Niamh Moore-Cherry Chapter Six: Cities of Russia and Central Asia—Jessica K. Graybill and Megan Dixon Chapter Seven: Cities of the Middle East and North Africa—Zia Salim and Donald J. Zeigler Chapter Eight: Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa—Garth Myers, Angela Gray Subulwa, and Francis Owusu Chapter Nine: Cities of South Asia—George Pomeroy, Ishrat Islam, and Vandana Wadhwa Chapter Ten: Cities of Southeast Asia—James Tyner and Arnisson Andre C. Ortega Chapter Eleven: Cities of East Asia—Piper Gaubatz and David Edgington Chapter Twelve: Cities of Australia and the Pacific—Nicole Cook and Suzanne Vallance Chapter Thirteen: Cities of the Future—John Rennie Short Appendix Cover Photo Credits Geographical Index Index to Subjects About the Editors and Contributors

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Book SynopsisMVVA’s 23-year story of transforming 85 acres of Brooklyn waterfront into parkland that reconnects New Yorkers to the East River Reclaimed from 1.3 miles of New York’s postindustrial waterfront, Brooklyn Bridge Park is a place for escape, recreation, and immersion in the natural world. Transforming parking lots and crumbling piers into a living ecosystem, the project is an exemplar of climate resilience, fiscal innovation, and joyful public space. This book examines MVVA’s process of designing a park that went from a remote possibility to an essential part of the city around it.

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Book SynopsisIn an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Waste and the City is a call to action on one of modern urban life's most neglected issues: sanitation infrastructure. The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the devastating consequences of unequal access to sanitation in cities across the globe. At this critical moment in global public health, Colin McFarlane makes the urgent case for Sanitation for All.The book outlines the worldwide sanitation crisis and offers a vision for a renewed, equitable investment in sanitation that democratises and socialises the modern city. Adopting Henri Lefebvre's concept of 'the right to the city', it uses the notion of 'citylife' to reframe the discourse on sanitation from a narrowly-defined policy discussion to a question of democratic right to public life and health. In doing so, the book shows that sanitation is an urbanizing force whose importance extends beyond hygiene to the very foundation of urban social life.Trade ReviewIn this brilliant book bristling with ideas and evidence from around the Global South, Colin McFarlane maps the world's sanitation crisis as well as a way out of it through a manifesto of rights to the city that connects up vernacular strategies of making infrastructure, a public right to wellbeing, and city efforts to improve systems. The book is full of hope and possibility without ever losing sight of the sanitation catastrophe we face.' -- Ash Amin, Emeritus 1931 Chair of Geography, Cambridge UniversityInteresting, insightful, sometimes surprising, beautifully written, challenges us to look at sanitation (and lack of it) in new ways. -- David Satterthwaite, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)In this immensely well written and accessible book, Colin McFarlane draws on over two decades of his research on sanitation, setting out his argument as to why access to toilets is fundamental not only to reducing poverty and inequality but also to what he refers to as citylife, or the right to a liveable urban life. His superb command of his subject starts with the fleshy, messy feminist understanding of sanitation as a bodily act and of the millions of people living through the crisis of sanitation, at the centre of which lies the social reproductive labour of women and girls. From people he moves comprehensively across sanitation's material infrastructures (the 'things' of sanitation) and lives (the urban ecologies of human and non-human animals and microbes and the politics of the body), to protest (human waste is political!) and allocation (who gets what sanitation resources, where). It is this networked view of sanitation, as far more than a simple technical or policy issue, that underpins the democratic right to citylife. This is a brilliantly incisive book, setting a global agenda for all of us who care about cities, poverty and inequality. For those urban researchers and activists for whom the urban sanitation crisis is not yet on that agenda it will be after reading this book. -- Linda Peake, Director, The City Institute, York University, TorontoMarks the culmination of his path-breaking research on the global sanitation crisis. Waste and the City is both a sober assessment of the scale of the challenge and also an affirmation of multiple social and political possibilities to create better urban worlds. -- Matthew Gandy, Professor of Geography, University of CambridgeWith both a conceptually wide-ranging lens and empirical precision, Colin McFarlane show how and why sanitation lies at the heart of contemporary urban inequalities, injustices, and ecologies. Drawing on cases from both rich and poor countries alike, this book makes clear that how societies understand, address, or ignore such daily necessities as sewage and the provision of toilets says a lot about whose lives matter. Beyond highlighting the unspoken gender and class biases in the provision of sanitation, the focus on new environmental and infrastructural urgencies set in motion by climate change makes this book particularly timely. -- Diane E. Davis, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

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Book SynopsisBased on a lifelong professional and personal interest, "Traditional Buildings" presents a unique survey of vernacular architecture across the globe. The reader is taken on a fascinating tour of traditional building around the world, which includes the loess cave homes of central China, the stilt houses on the shores of Dahomey, the housebarns of Europe and North America, the wind towers of Iran, the Bohio houses of the Arawak Indians of the Caribbean, and much more. Professor's Noble's extensive travels have allowed him to examine many of the building at close quarters and the richly illustrated text includes photographs from his personal collection. With its comprehensive and detailed bibliography, the work will be welcomed by experts and non-specialists alike.

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Book SynopsisLondon's suburbs are home to many thousands of people who travel into the centre every day to work, but they also house many thousands who rarely find a reason to do so. They contain all the essential infrastructure for the city, too, including airports, offices, shopping centre, factories and warehouses. Outer London is therefore both metropolitan and suburban at the same time - it is Metroburbia. In this book Paul Knox examines the architectural history and development of London's suburbs, and celebrates their surprising variety and organized structure, refuting the common claim that they are monotonous or amorphous. The first chapter, The Foundations of Metroburbia, explains the foundation and development of Metroburbia and looks at how topography and geology influenced the siting of the villages that would become part of Greater London. The River Thames, of course, is one of London's most important and well-known structural elements, and in this chapter Knox examines how its meanders and bends have produced distinct patterns of settlement and development. He also describes in detail the seven distinctive sectors of London, which are (running clockwise from the west) the Thames Valley, Northwest London, North London, the Lea Valley, Northeast London, the Thames Estuary and South London. Finally, he looks at how early settlements, country estates and royal palaces shaped Metroburbia, and how the increase in roads and industry consolidated the development of what would become suburbia. Chapter 2, Pattern-book London, looks at Victorian and Edwardian suburbs - the first developments to be given that name. The building booms and their effect on employment in the city, and the difference in style and purpose between the various suburbs, are discussed, and Knox also examines the effects of immigration and industrialization on the city's housing requirements. He also describes the genesis of the parks, cemeteries and garden villages that now provide such valuable green space for Londoners, and the creation of the impressive industrial, civic and institutional buildings that are still striking parts of the city's infrastructure. Chapter 3, Inter-war Suburbia: Metro-Land and the Universal Plan, describes the acceleration of building projects between the wars and the beginning of the transition from Edwardian society to the modern welfare state. The term 'Metro-Land', introduced by the Metropolitan Railway Company in the early twentieth century, gives the chapter its title, and describes the expansion of residential London along the route of the Underground lines into Buckinghamshire. The effect of widespread car ownership is discussed, and the various housing styles - Stockbroker Tudor, Suburban Moderne, the mansion block, and so on - are described. The fourth chapter, Secular Reformation and Modernism, covers the thirty years from the end of the Second World War, during which time the welfare state brought about radical changes to life in London and the architecture of the city. Chapter 5, Counter-Reformation, describes the changes wrought on the country by the new neo-liberal agenda, as the welfare state was overtaken by a market-driven economy that fostered free-for-all development. By this time Metroburbia had spread outwards to incorporate Chelmsford, Southend-on-Sea, Maidstone, Guildford, Reading and Luton. This was an era of radical new infrastructure projects - from the rise of the suburban shopping centre to the construction of the new Thames Barrier - and huge increases in house prices. The regeneration of the Isle of Dogs into the Docklands commercial area is one of the most high-profile developments of the era, but infill house-building and small-scale environmental developments were also produced, and social housing regenerated. Finally, the last chapter, Megapolitan Futures, explores the various theories about the capital's future and conjectures about the shape of the city in the twenty-first century.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Foundations of Metroburbia Chapter 2: Pattern-book London Chapter 3: Inter-war Suburbia: Metro-Land and the Universal Plan Chapter 4: Secular Reformation and Modernism Chapter 5: Counter-Reformation Chapter 6: Megapolitan Futures Notes Further Reading Index

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Book Synopsishe first book to focus on the urban development of Newport, Rhode Island, this is an extensively illustrated, multi-layered view of the city as both an urban entity and a cultural site of national significance. This is a richly illustrated portrait of Newport, Rhode Island as a work of urban art, from colonial times to the present, both documented and celebrated in the maps, paintings, photographs, poetry and prose of renowned artists and writers. As one of the most historically intact cities in North America, Newport has a cultural and architectural heritage of national significance. Each of the city's districts has its own distinct character with street plans and buildings revealing the political, religious, commercial and artistic forces that have shaped Newport through the ages. Stately Colonial squares and bustling wharves, picturesque Victorian villas and scenic drives, opulent Gilded Age palaces for the few and electric streetcars for the many, and preservation movements to honor the past and modernist schemes for a metropolis of the future all tell stories of urban beauty and controversy, of eras of lavish building, urban decay and extraordinary revival. AUTHOR: John R. Tschirch is the Newport Historical Society's architectural historian and visiting curator of Urban History, He is the author of Gods and Girls: Tales of Art, Seduction and Obsession (2019) and A Walking History of Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island (Walking History of America) (2013). John is presently an instructor in design history for Rhode Island School of Design CE, which presented him with the 2010 Excellence in Teaching Award, and he is adjunct faculty in art history at Bristol Community College, where his students provide endless inspiration and amusement. He is also the creator and author of a monthly design history blog called John Stories: Confessions of the Globetrekking Architectural Historian, John Tschirch, featuring his photographs and commentary on historic places. 250 colour and b/w illustrations

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Book SynopsisUrban riverbanks are attractive locations and highly prized recreational environments. The designs of urban river landscapes must fulfill a broad range of requirements: flood control, open space design, and ecology are as a rule the three dominant themes, and they must often be reconciled within a very restricted space. The river must be understood as a process: governed by changing water levels, shifting seasons, erosion, and sedimentation, the river environment is not a static entity but constantly changing—the design must be flexible and take this into account. This book is the product of a multi-year study that subjected more than fifty Western European projects to a comparative analysis. The result is a systematic catalog of effective strategies and innovative design elements. First, designers and planners are given an overview of the broad and varied spectrum of design possibilities. The book’s process-oriented approach is especially helpful where the focus is on long-term, sustainable measures. The publication consists of two linked volumes that enable the reader to consult the systematic catalog and the case study section side by side. The easy-to-navigate structure and an extensive glossary provide further guidance, while the work’s highly distinctive design makes it visually appealing as well and invites the reader to leaf through and explore it. Table of Contents((BAND 1)) Vorwort 1 GRUNDLAGEN (I) Fluss.Raum.entwerfen: Zum Buch (II) Ziele und Methodik (III) Inhalte und Projektauswahl (III) Buchstruktur und Leseanleitung (III) Planungsvoraussetzungen für urbane Flussräume (II) Multifunktionalität (III) Interdisziplinarität (III) Prozessorientierung (III) Gewässerräume und ihre Prozesse (II) Prozesse und ihre Antriebskräfte (III) Prozesstypen (III)Temporäre Abflussschwankungen (IV) Teilprozess 1: Vertikale Wasserstandschwankungen (V)Teilprozess 2: Horizontale Ausbreitung des Wassers (V) Morphodynamische Prozesse (IV) Teilprozess 1: Umlagerungsprozesse (V)Teilprozess 2: Eigendynamische Laufentwicklung (V) Gewässerlandschaften als Ausdruck raum-zeitlicher Prozesse (III) Definition der Flussbegrenzungen (II) Überflutungsgrenze (III) Grenze der eigendynamischen Laufentwicklung (III) Erosion und Sedimentation (III) 2 KATALOG DER MAßNAHMEN (I) Einführung (II) Prozessräume (III) Entwurfsstrategien (III) Gestaltungsmittel und -maßnahmen (III) Prozessraum A: Ufermauern und Promenaden (II) Freiraumnutzung (IV)Ökologie (IV) Hochwasserschutz (IV) A1 Raum linear erweitern (III) A1.1 Zwischenebenen (IV) A1.2 Terrassen (IV) A1.3 große Ufertreppen (IV) A2 Raum punktuell erweitern (III) A2.1 flussparallele Zugänge (IV) A2.2 90-Grad-Zugänge (IV) A3 temporŠr widerstehen (III) A3.1 verschließbare Zugänge (IV) A3.2 Sicht erhalten (IV) A4 mitgehen (III) ((besser als mitbewegen)) A4.1 schwimmende Stege (IV) A4.2 schwimmende Inseln (IV) A4.3 Hausboot bis Badeschiff (IV) Schiffe ? ((unter Hausboot stellt man sich ja kein Café vor)) A5 darŸberstellen (III) A5.1 Balkone (IV) A 5.2 Überhang (IV) A5.3 schwebende Wegeverbindungen (IV) A6 tolerieren (III) A 6.1 Unterwassertrittstufen (IV) A 6.2 Stör- und Trittsteine (IV) A 6.3 Vorufer (IV) A6.4 überflutbare Uferwege (IV) A6.5 überflutbare Stege (IV) A6.6 Ufermauer überwinden (IV) A6.7 überflutungstolerantes Mobiliar (IV) A6.8 überflutungstolerante Bepflanzung (IV) A6.9 neue Ufermauern (IV) A7 wahrnehmbar machen (III) A7.1 Wasserdynamik sichtbar machen (IV) A7.2 Wasserstände markieren (IV) A7.3 Kunstobjekte (IV) Prozessraum B: Flutwände und Deiche B1 Widerstand differenzieren (III) B1.1 Deichpark (IV) B1.2 Bäume auf Deichen (IV) B1.3 Deichprofil modellieren (IV) B1.4 Deiche als Wegeverbindungen (IV) B1.5 Deichtreppen und –promenaden (IV) B1.6 Superdeiche (IV) B2 vertikal widerstehen (III) B2.1 Hochwasserschutzmauern integrieren (IV) B2.2 Mauerhöhen relativieren (IV) B3 Widerstand verstŠrken (III) B3.1 unsichtbar stabilisieren (IV) B3.2 Glaswände (IV) B3.3 Erhöhungen umgehen (IV) B4 Widerstand integrieren (III) B4.1 Nutzung der historischen Stadtmauer (IV) B4.2 wasserdichte Fassaden (IV) B4.3 bestehende Dämme umnutzen (IV) B5 temporŠr widerstehen (III) B5.1 freie Elemente (IV) B5.2 aufsetzbare Elemente (IV) B5.3 aufklappbare Elemente (IV) B6 Wasserschwankungen inszenieren (III) B6.1 sichtbare Hochwasserschutzelemente (IV) B6.2 Vergleichspunkte schaffen (IV) B6.3 Glaswände (IV) Prozessraum C: Überflutungsflächen (II) C1 Raum erweitern (III) C1.1 Deichrückverlegung (IV) C1.2 Bypass (IV) C1.3 Flutmulde (IV) C1.4 Vorland abgraben (IV) C1.5 stehende Gewässer im Vorland (IV) C1.6 Poldersystem (IV) C1.7 Rückhaltebecken mit Kammerung (IV) C2 tolerieren (III) C2.1 Wegeführung in der Aue (IV) C2.2 Sport- und Spielanlagen (IV) C2.3 hochwasserfeste Gebäude (IV) C2.4 Park in der Aue (IV) C2.5 Großräumige Naturgebiete (IV) C2.6 Landwirtschaft (IV) C2.7 Zelt- und Campingplätze (IV) C2.8 Veranstaltungsgelände (IV) C3 ausweichen (III) C3.1 Vorhersagen und Absperrungen (IV) C3.2 Warnschilder und Gestaltung (IV) C3.3 elektronische Warnsysteme (IV) C4 darüberstellen (III) C4.1 Warften (IV) C4.2 Warftprinzip in Gebäuden (IV) C4.3 Fluchthügel (IV) C4.4 Pfahlbauten (IV) C4.5 Sommerdeiche (IV) C4.6 Fluchtstege (IV) C4.7 Seilbahn (IV) C5 mitgehen (III) C5.1 schwimmende und amphibische Wohnformen (IV) C5.2 Yachthäfen (IV) Prozessraum D: Flussbette und Fließräume D 1 Stršmung lenken (III) D1.1 Stör- und Trittsteine (IV) D1.2 Totholz (IV) D1.3 gesetzte Steinbuhnen (IV) D1.4 geschüttete Steinbuhnen (IV) D1.5 Lebendbauweise (IV) D1.6 überströmte Buhnen (IV) D1.7 Querriegel (IV) D2 GewŠsserlauf differenzieren (III) D2.1 aufweiten (IV) D2.2 Lauf verlängern (IV) D2.3 Ufer abflachen (IV) D3 Morphodynamik initiieren (III) D3.1 Anlandung durch Strömungsberuhigung (IV) D3.2 Kolkbildung durch Strömungslenkung (IV) D3.3 Anlandung in Buchten (IV) D4 Ufersicherung differenzieren (III) D4.1 Ufer teilweise entsichern (IV) D4.2 Lebendverbau (IV) D4.3 Steinverbau (IV) D4.4 Sicherung durch Strömungslenkung (IV) D4.5 Stufen und Treppen (IV) D4.6 Wege und Terrassen am Wasser (IV) D4.7 Balkone (IV) D5 Sohlsicherung differenzieren (III) D5.1 Fischaufstiegshilfen (IV) D5.2 Sohl- und Querbauwerke umgestalten (IV) D5.3 Rampen und Gleiten (IV) Prozessraum E: Dynamisierte Flusslandschaften (II) E1 Entwicklungsgrenzen auflšsen (III) E1.1 Ufersicherung entfernen (IV) E1.2 Gewässerunterhaltung anpassen (IV) E 2 Laufentwicklung initiieren (III) E2.1 Ufer abflachen (IV) E2.2 Profil differenzieren (IV) E2.3 Störelemente einbringen (IV) E2.4 Geschiebehaushalt optimieren (IV) E2.5 Wasserhaushalt optimieren (IV) E3 neuen GewŠsserlauf gestalten (III) E3.1 mäandrierenden Gewässerlauf vorgeben (IV) E3.2 begradigten Lauf einbeziehen (IV) E3.3 Gewässerverzweigung anlegen (IV) E 4 Laufentwicklung begrenzen (III) E4.1 „schlafende" Ufersicherung (IV) E4.2 virtuelle Grenze (IV) E4.3 punktuelle Sicherungen integrieren (IV) E5 Prozesse wahrnehmbar machen (III) E5.1 Inszenierung der alten Gewässerstrukturen (IV) E5.2 Inszenierung neuer Elemente (IV) E5.3 eigendynamische Prozesse erleben (IV) ((BAND 2)) 3 PROJEKTBEISPIELE (I) Einführung (II) Übersichtskarte (III) Prozessraum A: Städtische Ufer und Promenaden (II)Elster- und Pleißemühlgraben, Leipzig Leine, Hannover Limmat, Zürich (Fabrik am Wasser) Limmat, Zürich (Wipkinger Park) Spree, BerlinRhone, Lyon Seine, Choisy le Roi Wupper, Wuppertal Prozessraum B: Flutwände und Deiche (II) Main, Miltenberg Main, Wörth Nahe, Bad Kreuznach Ebro, Zaragoza (Parque del agua) IJssel, Doesburg Ijssel, Kampen Waal, Afferden-Dremel Waal, Zaltbommel Prozessraum C: Überflutungsflächen (II) Bergsche Maas, Waalwijk en Gertudenberg Besòs, Barcelona Gallego, Zuera IJssel, Zwolle Maas, Maasbommel Petite Gironde, Le Mans Rhein, Brühl Rhein, Mannheim Seine, Le Pecq Waal, Gameren Wupper, Solingen Prozessraum D: Flussbette und Fließräume (II) Ahna, Kassel Alb, Karlsruhe Birs, Basel Kandelbach, Ladenburg Leutschenbach, ZürichSeille, Metz Soestbach, Soest Wiese, Basel Wiese, Lörrach Prozessraum E: Dynamisierte Flusslandschaften (II) Emscher, Ellinghausen und Mengede Isar, München Losse, Kassel Schunter, Braunschweig Wahlebach Kassel Werse, Beckum ANHANGGlossarQuellen und weiterführende LiteraturÜbersichtslistenRegister

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Book SynopsisDie ersten freien Wahlen zum Wiener Gemeinderat bringen 1919 der Sozialdemokratischen Arbeiterpartei die absolute Mehrheit. So beginnt ein international beachtetes Reformprojekt, das auf eine tiefgreifende Verbesserung der Lebensbedingungen in der Stadt und eine weitreichende Demokratisierung der Gesellschaft zielt. Zentrales Handlungsfeld wird die Wohnungsfrage. Auf der Grundlage von „Luxussteuern" werden bis 1934 mehr als 60.000 Wohnungen sowie zahlreiche Sozial-, Freizeit- und Kultureinrichtungen geschaffen. Die umfangreich illustrierte Publikation fragt nach historischen Voraussetzungen und Wirkungen, den internationalen Einflüssen und der Ausstrahlung nach Außen, nach dem Verhältnis von Ideologie und Pragmatismus sowie nach dem aktuellen Potenzial dieser dynamischen Stadtentwicklung im Zeichen der Moderne. Table of ContentsVorläufiges Inhaltsverzeichnis: Schulreform/Bildung/Volksbildung Willfried Göttlicher: Schulreform, Experimentelle Pädagogik Christian Dewald: Freihofsiedlung Christian Stifter: Volkshochschule Alfred Pfoser: Arbeiterbüchereien Elsbeth Walnöfer: Heimatbegriff im Roten Wien Frauen/Gender Veronika Duma/Marie Yazdanpanah: Frauenpolitik im Roten Wien (Käthe Leichter) Ökonomie/Versorgung Peter Eigner: Überblick Christian Stadelmann: Versorgung, Energie, Elektrizität, Gas Kultur/Kunst/Wissenschaft Elke Wikidal: Franz Čižek / Kinetismus Wolfgang Fichna Rotes Wien und Neue Musik Sabine Zelger: Dichtung (Luitpold Stern), Literatur Berthold Ecker: Bildende Kunst, Avantgarde Gernot Waldner: Wiener Kreis, Sozialforschung Elizabeth Danto: Psychoanalyse und Rotes Wien Ralph Gleis: O. R. Schatz Kommunikation (Fotografie, Ausstellungen, Statistik, Museen, Modellbau etc.) Marion Krammer: Fotografie Günther Sandner: Otto Neurath und das Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum Joachim Schätz: Kino- und Filmpolitik Julia König, Christian Maryska: Plakat Rob McFarland: Amerikanismus Sport/Freizeit/Arbeiterkultur Georg Spitaler: Überblick Bernhard Hachleitner: Stadion und Arbeiter-Olympiade Ernst Gerhard Eder: Badekultur im Roten Wien (Amalienbad, Kongressbad etc.) Austromarxismus Vrääth Öhner: Überblick Kolonialismus/Postkolonialismus/Internationalismus Wohnen/Architektur/Städtebau/Stadtplanung Andreas Nierhaus: Überblick Andreas Pavlic: Anarchistische Siedlungsbewegung Sandor Békési: Verkehrsplanung Eva Maria Orosz: Wohnen, Mobiliar Christine Zwingl: Schütte-Lihotzky, Wiener Küche Christoph Freyer: Architektur für Kinder Susanne Breuss: Küche Hans Kapfinger: Brenner Haus Reinhard Sieder: Arbeiterfamilien Christoph Reinprecht: Rotes Wien im internationalen Vergleich des sozialen Wohnbaus (Berlin, Amsterdam, Glasgow, Moskau etc.) Romana Pöter: Freihofsiedlung Sabrina Rahman: Leeds, Quarry Hills Flats Johan Hartle: Manfredo Tafuri und die linke Kritik am Roten Wien Gesundheits- und Sozialpolitik Katrin Pilz/Birgit Nemec: Eheberatung, Sozialfürsorge Sigrid Wadauer: Obdachlosigkeit, Bettelei etc. Wer sind die WienerInnen, Migration Stadtverwaltung Peter Becker, Therese Garstenauer Partei/Mobilisierung/Wahlen Wolfgang Maderthaner: Überblick Judentum / Antisemitismus Gerhard Milchram: Überblick Margit Reiter: Antisemitismus im Roten Wien

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Book Synopsis Die „funktionale Stadt" wurde mit dem vierten CIAM-Kongress 1933 zur wirkmächtigen Formel für den Städtebau des 20. Jahrhunderts. Doch das Konzept war zu diesem Zeitpunkt bereits in die Jahre gekommen. Es ist auch weniger eine Erfindung von Architekten als das Ergebnis eines Abstraktionsprozesses, an dem Statistiken, thematische Karten und ökonomische Modelle maßgeblichen Anteil hatten. Das Buch erzählt die Geschichte des modernen Städtebaus erstmals als Wissensgeschichte und zeichnet die Vorgeschichte der „funktionalen Stadt" nach, die weit ins liberale 19. Jahrhundert zurückreicht: Das Bild der Stadt als Organismus, der sich in Zonen gliedert und von Verkehr durchströmt wird, erweist sich so als ein Denkmuster marktgläubiger Reformer, das dann im 20. Jahrhundert durch den Staat umgesetzt wurde.

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Book SynopsisGibt es eine architektonische und städtebauliche Agenda hinter der Politik zeitgenössischer rechtspopulistischer, rechtsradikaler, rechtsextremistischer und (neo-)faschistischer Kräfte? Und wenn ja: Inwieweit macht sich hierfür die sogenannte "Mitte der Gesellschaft" zur unfreiwilligen Helferin? Diese Leitfragen ziehen sich durch die in diesem Band versammelten, teils vieldiskutierten Essays und Gespräche von Stephan Trüby. Ihr Hintergrund: Viele westlich-liberal geprägte Demokratien erfahren derzeit einen bis vor wenigen Jahren kaum für möglich gehaltenen gesellschaftlichen Rollback. Dieses Buch zeigt, wie die politische Rechte in Deutschland und darüber hinaus die Architektur, die Stadt und das Land zu formen versucht.

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