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Book SynopsisThe story of the Great Society Subway sheds light on the development of metropolitan Washington, postwar urban policy, and the promises and limits of rail transit in American cities.Trade ReviewExtensively researched, cleverly structured, and finely written, this book stands out for the way it provides an integral, comprehensive account of a key urban service. -- Georg Leidenberger American Historical Review In this superbly-written book, Zachary Schrag... explains how this achievement came about and what its impact is... A joy to read. -- Gregory L. Thompson Technology and Culture The author makes us privy to the thinking that went into the system's design. -- Dennis Drabelle Washington Post Book World Schrag does a thorough job with his subject. -- Rachel DiCarlo Washington Times A timely look at how the Metro got where it is today. Civil Engineering It's a fascinating look at a modern transit triumph. Trains A graceful, fact-packed history of the genesis, development, and current state of the Washington Metro system. H-DC The Great Society Subway is a great book for students of contemporary transit history. -- Alexander D. Mitchell Railfan and Railroad An excellent book... a welcome and readable addition to the literature of how we construct the societies we inhabit. -- Alex Marshall Regional Plan Association Spotlight An exhaustively researched, engagingly written study of the planning, designing, building, and operating of the Washington Metro. -- Sy Adler Journal of American History [Schrag] shows the interrelationship of citizens' hopes and fears, visionaries' ideas, politicians' need to succeed, engineers' practical requirements, and the ebb and flow of affecting events over time. It is a fascinating story well told... a love story by an historian for his city and its people. -- William W. Millar Journal of the American Planning Association A masterful new book... Schrag's The Great Society Subway gives an eloquent and hopeful explanation of how this marvelous system came to be, and backs it up with an enormous amount of evidence and keen historical perspective. Washington History A meticulously researched account. -- Phil Hervey Urban Land Schrag has written a valuable study of the role of infrastructure in shaping the modern, urban world, and he aptly shows both the possibiities and limitations of major public investments... insights especially illuminating. -- J. Lawrence Lee CRM: Journal of Heritage Stewardship A welcome and readable addition to the literature of how we construct the societies we inhabit. -- Alex Marshall Hartford Courant Without question high drama... I strongly recommend that you put down the latest Baldacci mystery and ready this very well written, comprehensive, and entertaining book... one terrific book that belongs on lots of shelves, from planners to historians to rail buffs to politicians. -- Konrad J. Perlman Journal of Planning Literature A remarkable book. It has drama, it has pathos, it has passion, it has literary grace. -- Bob Post Journal of Transport History In clear and engaging prose, Schrag interweaves facts with a wide range of pragmatic, political, and aesthetic matters with discussions of those who posed and resolved the issues. -- Pamela Scott Journal of Social History In clear and engaging prose, Schrag interweaves facts with a wide range of pragmatic, political, and aesthetic matters with discussions of those who posed and resolved the issues. -- Pamela Scott Journal of the Society of Architectural HistoriansTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. The City, 1791–19552. The Plans, 1955–19653. The Stations, 1965–19674. The Region, 1966–19675. The Bridge, 1966–19716. The Builders, 1972–19767. The Money, 1972–19808. The District9. The Suburbs10. The RidersConclusionNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA richly illustrated behind-the-scenes tour of how the nation's capital was built. In 1790, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson set out to build a new capital for the United States of America in just ten years. The area they selected on the banks of the Potomac River, a spot halfway between the northern and southern states, had few resources or inhabitants. Almost everything needed to build the federal city would have to be brought in, including materials, skilled workers, architects, and engineers. It was a daunting task, and these American Founding Fathers intended to do it without congressional appropriation. Robert J. Kapsch's beautifully illustrated book chronicles the early planning and construction of our nation's capital. It shows how Washington, DC, was meant to be not only a government center but a great commercial hub for the receipt and transshipment of goods arriving through the Potomac Canal, then under construction. Picturesque plans would not be enough; the endeaTrade ReviewRich in period detail thanks to Kapsch's extensive use of original documents, drawings and illustrations, and cost data for context, Building Washington is a fascinating look at the creation of the seat of our democracy.—Ray Bert, Civil EngineeringKapsch, a historian of engineering, focuses principally on the decades between the passage of the Residence Act of 1790, which selected the site for the new nation's capital, and the repair and reconstruction efforts that followed the burning of public buildings by British troops in 1814. The narrative centers on the transition from an eighteenth-century mode of construction led by "gentleman planters" to one orchestrated by professionally trained "architect-engineers." Along the way, Kapsch examines the supply chains, building techniques, financial expedients, and political wrangling that went into making the city.—David Schley, Journal of Southern HistoryBuilding Washington is a meticulously detailed account of the early construction of the capital city . . . The work will provide a treasure trove for research specialists in engineering and construction practices of the early republic and an informative reference work for enthusiastic Washingtonians.—Thomas J. Brown, University of South Carolina, Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsTimelineAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I1. Pierre L’Enfant’s Two Plans for Executing the President’s Vision2. Financing the Federal City3. Constructing the Federal City4. Developing a Commercial Center5. Early Infrastructure and Transport Improvements6. Building Military Defenses for the CapitalPart II7. The First Public Building Campaign (1791-1802)8. The Second Public Building Campaign (1803-1811)9. The Third Public Building Campaign (1815-1824)10. Later Transportation ImprovementsEpilogueBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe waterfront was the key to New York City's growth and prosperity. For hundreds of years, the shorefront of Manhattan Island served as the country's center of trade, shipping, and commerce. With its maritime links across the oceans, along the Atlantic coast, and inland to the Midwest and New England, Manhattan became a global city and home to the world's busiest port. It was a world of docks, ships, tugboats, and ferries, filled with cargo and freight, a place where millions of immigrants entered the Promised Land. In Waterfront Manhattan, Kurt C. Schlichting tells the story of the Manhattan waterfront as a struggle between public and private control of New York's priceless asset. Nature provided New York with a sheltered harbor but presented the city with a challenge: to find the necessary capital to build and expand the maritime infrastructure. From colonial times until after the Civil War, the city ceded control of the waterfront to private interests, excluding the public entireTrade ReviewWell researched, engagingly told, and rich in historical, sociological, and economic detail, Waterfront Manhattan represents a new way to look at the ascendancy and growth of America's most important city.—Ray Bert, Civil EngineeringIn Waterfront Manhattan, Schlichting has woven an impressive narrative which is sure to shed light on this underappreciated aspect of New York City history.—Erin Becker, Long Island Maritime Museum, Global Maritime HistoryThis is an important book. There is much to ponder on the future of New York City's harbor, encompassing all five of the city's boroughs and also New Jersey's shoreline.—Evelyn Gonzalez, William Paterson University, Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsPreface1. Growth, Decline, and Rebirth2. Water-Lots and the Extension of the Manhattan Shoreline3. The Ascendency of the Port of New York4. New York's Waterway Empires5. The Social Construction of the Waterfront6. The Port Prospers, the Railroads Arrive, and Congestion Ensues7. The Public and Control of the Waterfront8. Crime, Corruption, and the Death of the Manhattan Waterfront9. Rebirth of the WaterfrontNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1978. At the time this book was published, new towns were cropping up as a matter of public policy in advanced industrial countries, yet the United States abandoned this project and deemed new towns inappropriate and impractical for the American situation. The purpose of this book is to inform planners and policy makers around the world about French new towns. It analyzes what French new towns tried to accomplish; the administrative, financial, and political reforms needed to secure implementation of the program; and the achievements of the new towns. The author's evaluation of French new towns is undertaken with an eye to international applicability. In the United States, new towns have been proposed as a means for integrating low-income families into suburbs that are otherwise closed to them. The French experience demonstrates that socially heterogeneous new communities can be developed, even within the framework of a market system, if a sufficiently high prTable of ContentsTerms and AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. The New Towns IdeaChapter 2. The Administrative StructureChapter 3. Economics of the French New TownsChapter 4. The Role of the Private SectorChapter 5. Achievement of Social GoalsConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisA new perspective on the relationships among colleges, universities, and the communities with which they are now partnering. Colleges and universities have always had interesting relationships with their external communities, whether they are cities, towns, or something in between. In many cases, they are the main economic driver for their regionsState College, Pennsylvania, or Raleigh, North Carolina, for exampleand in others, they exist side by side with thriving industries. In The New American College Town, James Martin, James E. Samels & Associates provide a practical guide for planning a new kind of American college townone that moves beyond the nostalgia-tinged stereotype to achieve collaborative objectives. What exactly is a college town in America today? Examining the broad range of partnerships transforming campuses and the communities around them, the book opens by detailing twenty characteristics of new American college towns. Subsequent chapters invite presidents, provoTable of ContentsPreface Part I. Developing a New Definition of College TownsChapter 1. The New American College Town: Twenty Characteristics James Martin and James E. SamelsChapter 2. Fostering an Effective Town-Gown Relationship: Eight Leading Practices from the International Town & Gown Association Michael Fox and Beth BagwellPart II. Effective Campus-Community Relationships Start with the PresidentChapter 3. Urban-Serving Universities: Rethinking the College Town for the Twenty-First Century Wim Wiewel and Erin Flynn Chapter 4. How College Towns Have Become Regional Economic Drivers John Simon, Fred McGrail, and Allison StarerChapter 5. The Public Purpose of Higher Education: Building Innovative College-Community Partnerships Katherine Bergeron, Tracee Reiser, and Jefferson A. Singer Chapter 6. Starting from Scratch: How Albion Reinvented Its Town—and Its College in the Process Mauri A. Ditzler and Lorin DitzlerChapter 7. A Plan for Brooklyn: Engaging Community in the First Year of a College Presidency Miguel Martinez-SaenzChapter 8. Right Place, Right Time: Presidential Vision and Political Realities Susan Henderson and Aaron AskaChapter 9. Community College Towns: Five Ways Presidents Can Leverage Their Resources Kevin E. DrummPart III. Beyond the President's Office: Expanding Missions and Leveraging ResourcesChapter 10. How Planners Work: Best Practices for Keene State College and Keene, New Hampshire, in Balancing Community Relations Jay KahnChapter 11. How Architects Envision College Towns Today and Tomorrow: Ten Best Practices for Integrated Design Stuart Rothenberger, Krisan Osterby, and Patrick Hyland Jr. Chapter 12. What Mayors Think: Local Politicians' Views of College Town Opportunities and Expectations Kate RousmaniereChapter 13. Money Matters: Creative Financing for Campuses and Their Communities Rick SeltzerChapter 14. Hidden Opportunities and Challenges in the College Town Job Market Andrew W. Hibel and Kelly A. CherwinChapter 15. Student Expectations and Student Needs: How Effective College Towns Are Designed with Students at the Center Eugene L. Zdziarski II Chapter 16. Las Vegas: Designing a College Town in the Shadow of Neon Lights Kim Nehls Chapter 17. Remote and Ready to Partner: A Blueprint for Sustainable Town-Gown Partnerships in Rural Areas Robert C. AndringaChapter 18. Collaboration Is Complex: Five Lessons from Higher Education Consortium Directors for College Town Planners Phillip DiChiaraChapter 19. A College Town Legal Primer: The Most Frequently Asked Questions, and Answers, about Campus-Community Partnerships James E. Samels and James MartinChapter 20. Get Ready: College Towns Two Generations from Today Joel GarreauNotes Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the 1920s, enterprising realtors, housing professionals, and builders developed the models that became the inspiration for the subdivision tract housing now commonplace in the U.S. Originally published in 2001. Suburban subdivisions of individual family homes are so familiar a part of the American landscape that it is hard to imagine a time when they were not common in the U. S. The shift to large-scale speculative subdivisions is usually attributed to the period after World War II. In Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s, Carolyn S. Loeb shows that the precedents for this change in single-family home design were the result of concerted efforts by entrepreneurial realtors and other housing professionals during the 1920s. In her discussion of the historical and structural forces that propelled this change, Loeb focuses on three typical speculative subdivisions of the 1920s and on the realtors, architects, and building-craftsmen who designed and consTrade ReviewLoeb should be applauded for telling a complicated story. She successfully makes the realtors, architects, and building-craftsmen agents of physical growth. Loeb also uses careful case studies, but moves beyond them to try to tell a wider story.—Ann Durkin Keating, H-Net ReviewsLoeb's useful concept of entrepreneurial vernacular may encourage scholars to pay more attention to the builders and tradesmen whose activities were important in themselves and also constitute an important arena in which the histories of business, labor, and cities intersect.—Richard Harris, Journal of American HistoryLoeb's book helps us understand the roots of a significant trend in American housing after World War II . . . It is well organized and well written.—Ellen Christensen, Michigan Historical ReviewEntrepreneurial Vernacular is certainly the best and most comprehensive book I have read about the design and development of the modern, large-scale housing subdivision.—Thomas C. Hubka, Urban HistoryTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Entrepreneurial Vernacular SubdivisionPart I. Three Subdivisions and Their Builders Chapter 1: The Ford Homes: The Case of the Borrowed BuildersChapter 2: Brightmoor: The Case of the Absent ArchitectChapter 3: Westwood Highlands: The Rise of the RealtorPart II. Agency, From, and MeaningChapter 4: The Home-Ownership Network: Constructing CommunityChapter 5: Architectural Style: The Charm of ContinuityConclusion. Architecture as Social Process NotesBibliographical NoteIllustration CreditsIndex

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Book SynopsisLooking at Atlanta, Georgia, one might conclude that the city’s notorious sprawl, degraded air quality, and tenuous water supply is a result of a lack of planning—particularly an absence of coordination at the regional level. In Atlanta Unbound, Carlton Wade Basmajian shows that Atlanta’s low-density urban form and its associated problems have been both highly coordinated and regionally planned.Basmajian’s shrewd analysis shows how regional policies spanned political boundaries and framed local debates over several decades. He examines the role of the Atlanta Regional Commission’s planning deliberations that appear to have contributed to the urban sprawl that they were designed to control. Basmajian explores four cases—regional land development plans, water supply strategies, growth management policies, and transportation infrastructure programs—to provide a detailed account of the interactions between citizensTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Introduction: An Intentional Region?2 Building the Atlanta Regional Commission3 The River and the Region: The Chattahoochee River and the Atlanta Regional Commission4 Projecting Sprawl? The 1976 Regional Development Plan of Metropolitan Atlanta5 Growth Management Comes to Georgia6 Atlanta’s Transportation Crisis and the Battle of the Northern Arc7 A Regional StoryNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisHow New York's mayor's urban development plans rely on a blending of Moses and JacobsTrade Review"Larson brilliantly dissects Bloomberg's tenure as Mayor of New York (particularly the first two terms), focusing on how the administration used the prevailing legacies of Moses and Jacobs to get what they wanted done... [T]his book raises a flag as to what that legacy should be, as well as to what his successor should really focus on."--A Weekly Dose of Architecture, August 12th 2013 "The book is an excellent brief about the state of affairs of planning in New York City in the past decade... there are many interesting insights in this readable monograph. Summing Up: Recommended." - ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Jacobs versus Moses: A Fight for the City’s Soul2 The “Patron Saint” and the “Git’r Done Man”3 The Bloomberg Practice4 Calls for a New Moses5 Planning and the Narrative of Threat6 The Armature for Development7 Ideas That Converge8 Ideas That Travel9 Design as Civic Virtue10 Building Like Moses with Jacobs in MindNotes References Index

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Book SynopsisLewis Mumford, one of the most respected public intellectuals of the twentieth century, speaking at a conference on the future environments of North America, said, In order to secure human survival we must transition from a technological culture to an ecological culture. In Ecohumanism and the Ecological Culture, William Cohen shows how Mumford's conception of an educational philosophy was enacted by Mumford's mentee, Ian McHarg, the renowned landscape architect and regional planner at the University of Pennsylvania. McHarg advanced a new way to achieve an ecological culture-through an educational curriculum based on fusing ecohumanism to the planning and design disciplines.Cohen explores Mumford's important vision of ecohumanisma synthesis of natural systems ecology with the myriad dimensions of human systems, or human ecology-and how McHarg actually formulated and made that vision happen. He considers the emergence of alternative energy systems and new approaches to planning and comm

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Book SynopsisIn the first half of the twentieth century, urban elevated highways were much more than utilitarian infrastructure, lifting traffic above the streets; they were statements of civic pride, asserting boldly modern visions for a city’s architecture, economy, and transportation network. Yet three of the most ambitious projects, launched in Chicago, New York, and Boston in the spirit of utopian models by architects such as Le Corbusier and Hugh Ferriss, ultimately fell short of their ideals.Modern Mobility Aloft is the first study to focus on pre-Interstate urban elevated highways within American architectural and urban history. Amy Finstein traces the idealistic roots of these superstructures, their contrasting realities once built, their impacts on successive development patterns, and the recent challenges they have posed to contemporary urban designers.Filled with more than 100 historic photographs and illustrations of beaux arts and art deco architecture, <Trade Review“Like the elevated railroads before them, elevated highways have generally been viewed in negative terms by urban dwellers. Yet the elevated highway represents an important, if not altogether welcome, phase in the daunting challenges to reconcile the demands of accommodating motor vehicles to city fabric on a large scale. Amy Finstein’s beautifully researched and written book examines the seminal early stages of implementing this complex and costly infrastructure in Chicago, New York, and Boston during the first half of the twentieth century. Modern Mobility Aloft is an important analysis of the visionary schemes first devised to address the issue and the myriad factors involved in conceiving and implementing actual projects. Economic considerations, local politics, architectural design values, and changes in building and transportation technology are all addressed in a seamless, engaging narrative.”—Richard Longstreth, Professor of American Studies Emeritus, George Washington University“In Modern Mobility Aloft, Finstein looks deeply at the historical intersection of civil engineering, technology, and urbanism and comes up with a major topic that no one has seen before. She is exactly right in her assertion that the elevated highway as a specific mode of technological response to the problem of automobile congestion has not been treated systematically. More importantly, she sees the connection between the elevated highway and elements of modernist urbanism and culture. Her extensive, original archival work and case studies of downtown congestion and early highway design point to a new integration of the history of technology and urban history.”—Robert Fishman, Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, Taubman College, University of Michigan"This handsomely produced, well-written book is about how three cities—New York, Chicago, and Boston—used elevated roadways well into the 20th century to alleviate the growing crush of traffic on surface roadways. Finstein chronicles the reconciliation of competing interests of political, engineering, and architectural remedies in the solutions offered and in what was either not built, built and later rebuilt, or demolished. Notable is Finstein's attention to issues of architectural style in projects thought of as mere engineering.... Well-illustrated with charts, plans, and photos, and supported by lots of endnotes and bibliographic information, this is an important scholarly resource. Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice"Modern Mobility Aloft focuses on the aesthetics of the structures, the design decisions that went into these highways, and their legacies.... [It is a] strong design-oriented history of elevated highways."—Technology and Culture"Finstein develops a clear and detailed narrative of the history and design of the three elevated highway projects, and presents an impressive amount of information, including numerous images, collected through extensive archival research. This makes the book an enjoyable read…. [T]he book offers important and relevant insights for urban planning and design professionals."—Journal of Planning History"[A] timely book.... Finstein offers an important addition to our understanding of the roots of America’s current transportation systems and of modern American cities.... One of the greatest strengths of Finstein’s work is the effective job she does of showing how a diffuse group of proponents viewed the elevated highways as the perfect solution to a range of issues faced in inter-war cities.... This book firmly and convincingly asserts that the period, the projects and the people who made them a reality influenced a great deal of the post-war world." —Urban History"A welcome addition to the growing body of literature on the impact of automobiles on the American built environment that includes suburbanization and large-scale highway systems.... Modern Mobility Aloft effectively broadens and deepens our understanding of highways as built form."—Buildings & Landscapes

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Book SynopsisSpanning multiple countries across South America, Europe and Africa, this book uses an international comparative perspective to investigate the phenomenon of self-building for low- and middle-income groups in urban areas, examining the tensions between regulation and self-regulatory initiatives.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Self- building as a right to the city - Willem Salet, Camila D’Ottaviano, Stan Majoor and Daniël Bossuyt Part I: The changing decors of governance The institutionalisation of self-build governance: exemplifying governance relationships in São Paulo/Brazil/Latin America - Camila D’Ottaviano, Suzana Pasternak, Jorge Bassani and Caio Santo Amore Contested governance of housing for low- and middle-income groups in European city-regions: the pivotal role of commissioning - Willem Salet and Daniël Bossuyt Self-building in contested spaces: livelihoods and productivity challenges of the urban poor in Africa - Nicky Pouw and Marina Humblot Part II: Changing housing regimes My House, My Life Programme – Entities: two self-management experiences in the city of São Paulo - Camila D’Ottaviano, Adelcke Rossetto Netto, Cecília Andrade Fiúza, Flávia Massimetti and Juliana do Amaral Costa Lima The Solano Trindade housing occupation as an urban self-management project in metropolitan Rio de Janeiro - Luciana Corrêa do Lago, Fernanda Petrus and Irene de Queiroz e Mello Self-management and the production of habitat: a case study of the Alianza Solidaria Housing Cooperative in Quito - Hernán Espinoza Riera, Andrés Cevallos, Bernardo Rosero, Irina Godoy and Janaina Marx Residents’ experiences and self-build models in Homeruskwartier, Almere - Daniël Bossuyt Residential experiences in times of shifting housing regimes in Istanbul - Zeynep Enlil and İclal Dinçer Experiences of the African city: urban areas in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso - Adama Belemviré Implications of self-build for the social and spatial shape of city-regions: exemplifying the cases of São Paulo and Amsterdam - Camila D’Ottaviano, Stan Majoor, Suzana Pasternak and Willem Salet From neighbourhood self-organisation to citybuilding: the case of Bathore, Kamëz (Albania) - Ledio Allkja Conclusion: The normalisation of moral ownership - Willem Salet, Camila D’Ottaviano, Stan Majoor and Daniël Bossuyt

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Book SynopsisPresenting the complexities of doing planning work, with its moral and practical dilemmas, this rich ethnographic study analyses today's planning scene through the stories of four diverse working environments.Table of Contents1. Introducing Contemporary Planning Practice 2. Southwell: the Privatised Local Authority 3. Simpsons: the Values-Driven Global Consultancy 4. Bakerdale: a ‘Traditional’ Local Authority Commercialising Under Austerity Politics 5. OIP: the ‘regular’ planning consultancy 6. So, Just What Are Planners Doing?

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Book SynopsisThis study adopts a spatial lens to shed light on weaknesses in competitiveness that have left Latin America unprepared to fully realize the potential of its mostly urban workforce and take advantage of opportunities in a post-pandemic economy reshaped by geopolitical shifts

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Book SynopsisWinner, Robert Motherwell Book Award, Outstanding Book on Modernism in the Arts, The Dedalus Foundation, 2019As Latin American elites strove to modernize their cities at the turn of the twentieth century, they eagerly adopted the eugenic theory that improvements to the physical environment would lead to improvements in the human race. Based on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of the “inheritance of acquired characteristics,” this strain of eugenics empowered a utopian project that made race, gender, class, and the built environment the critical instruments of modernity and progress.Through a transnational and interdisciplinary lens, Eugenics in the Garden reveals how eugenics, fueled by a fear of social degeneration in France, spread from the realms of medical science to architecture and urban planning, becoming a critical instrument in the crafting of modernity in the new Latin world. Journeying back and forth between France, Brazil, and Trade Review[Eugenics in the Garden] is a timely and powerful contribution to the slow dismantling of a Eurocentric and sometimes—directly or indirectly—white supremacist history of architecture. * Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians *[Eugenics in the Garden is] really enjoyable, extremely readable. It very deftly ties together many discursive strands and historical objects including medical and scientific treatises, popular fiction, large-scale urban demolition projects, modernist buildings, art, landscape designs, and world exhibitions. And accordingly, the book contributes to a number of disciplinary areas, including colonial medicine and, relatedly, architectures of medicine and urban hygiene; tropical architecture; and racial urban planning. I found it to be one of the most incisive interpretations of Le Corbusier I’ve read. * Journal of Architecture *An important book of innovative scholarship that breaks new ground. López-Durán’s book is timely given the current racial tensions of the United States, and will be useful to scholars of urban and architectural history, theory and criticism, public health policy, and political and economic history of Latin America; and especially to those interested in the social and cultural criticism of modernist urban design and architecture in relation to ideology, politics, and race. * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *Eugenics in the Garden is a significant contribution to recording and explaining reproachable aspects of modernist planning ideologies founded on eugenics…[López-Durán's] work is a timely reminder that social engineering, especially through planning and architecture, can all too easily become a vehicle for the application of racist ideologies; and these, regardless of the era, should be seen as unacceptable attempts to marginalize and dehumanize all those who do not fit into idealized utopian societies. For anyone interested in understanding spatial production and its implications, López-Durán’s work should form a fundamental part of their reading list. * caa.reviews *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Practicing Utopia: Eugenics and the Medicalization of the Built Environment Chapter 2. Paris Goes West: From the Musée Social to an “Ailing Paradise” Chapter 3. Machines for Modern Life: The Apparatuses of Health and Reproduction Chapter 4. Picturing Evolution: Le Corbusier and the Remaking of Man Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection gathers key writings by the nationally acclaimed architecture critic of the Dallas Morning News, whose perceptive commentary received awards from the Associated Press, the Dallas Press Club, and the Texas Society of Architects.Trade ReviewA welcome reminder of [Dillon's] intelligence and flair for the mot juste…Together, the essays describe a critic who engaged architecture in the broadest sense, looking not just at individual buildings, but at the impact of urban planning decisions, transportation systems, housing policy, history, and the relationship between city and suburb. * Dallas Morning-News *Many of the pieces will resonate across the country, especially in postwar Sun Belt cities, but North Texas is lucky to have Dillon's observations contained in this resonant volume…It is built to last. * D Magazine *With articles in chronological order across each chapter and titles that are highly descriptive..., it's easy to jump around [The Open-Ended City] based on one's interests. Of course, given Dillon's focus on local criticism, residents of Dallas will be drawn to the book more than outsiders. But in 2019, when architectural criticism in the US is hard to come by..., Dillon's articles still provide plenty of lessons while tracing a changing metropolis he influenced in his own way. * A Daily Dose of Architecture *From the first essay to the last, [David Dillon] condemned simplistic 'big-picture thinking'...and argued for design that would bring actual human connection back to city streets. Holliday writes that Dillon 'maintained a persistent belief in the ability of an engaged citizenry to demand higher quality and greater accountability for urban context,' and that he championed 'a richer social life for the city as a whole.' That makes him a model worth emulating, and his essays worth reading. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Dillon is...among the few Texas newspaper writers whose columns have been collected in book form. As such, his pieces on social equity, land use, suburban sprawl, downtown redevelopment and historic preservation can be read in any order and enjoyed for their potent opinions and carefully laid out arguments. * Austin American Statesman *[The Open-Ended City] is constructed in a way that highlights Dillon’s varied interests, and his voice, as well as his unique ability to '[tell] stories about architecture and cities [through] focusing on stories about people'...Dillon’s writing, and [Kathryn] Holliday’s editing of it, remind us that there must be careful watchers of the collisions that happen on the seam where public projects and private money meet. This book is an example of the fourth estate at its best. Not moralizing, not virtue-signaling, but compelling description, subtle perception, and the ability to capture the imagination via character, narrative, and gorgeous prose. * Technoculture *Table of Contents Foreword (Robert Decherd) Acknowledgments Introduction (Kathryn E. Holliday) 1. THE CRITIC’S VOICE Why is Dallas architecture so bad? Because we’re trying to look like too many other cities: big and boring, D Magazine, 1980 Architecture criticism and the public, Texas Architect, 2009 2. RETHINKING DOWNTOWN Erik Jonsson: Contemporary Dallas is a testament to his grand vision as mayor, August 17, 1986 How best-laid plans of ’60s helped create urban division, December 8, 1991 Putting her faith in people, not systems: Author Jane Jacobs talks of how city planning fails, and offers some solutions, May 14, 1993 DART-chitecture: Light-rail system’s clean design enhances Dallas, June 18, 1996 Urban salvage: The loft life is transforming downtown, March 8, 1998 Arts magnet: Fort Worth is trading its “Cowtown“ image for one geared more toward culture, May 3, 1998 Shock of the NEW: The downtown-housing boom has forged winners and losers, January 14, 2001 Quick-fix syndrome: To revitalize downtown, the whole must outweigh the parts, March 31, 2002 Dallas at the tipping point: Community, April 18, 2004 Forward Dallas: Would it work? Yes, if the city finds the money and leaders to see it through, says architecture critic David Dillon, May 7, 2006 Uptown’s victory in the making: After early struggles, Perot Jr. presides over urban boomtown, June 21, 2006 3. THE METROPOLITAN LANDSCAPE A trip down memory four-lane: Highway 80 once carried travelers from coast to coast. Super highways put an end to that, but not to its vintage charms, April 7, 1985 Why we should love freeways: Dallas was built not only by freeways but for them—made to be seen at 60 mph with the top down, June 3, 1990 Tower power: Water tanks rise to provide scenery, a sense of place, ad space, islands of roadside whimsy, January 20, 1991 Building a city’s future: Habitat for Humanity has an answer for urban blight, October 4, 1992 This idea won’t hold water: Trinity River Parks Plan will only create a river of concrete, May 30, 1993 Big mess on the prairie: The ubiquitous “North Dallas Special“ becomes a Texas tradition, October 2, 1994 Safe havens: Gated communities are appealing to today’s yearning for security, June 19, 1994 Stream dreams: The Trinity River plan is huge; so are its potential problems, August 15, 1999 Set sail with the latest Trinity River Plan: With something for everyone, time to begin long-delayed project, March 30, 2003 Shelter and shade: A city project brings architecture to the people, May 1, 2008 4. ARTS DISTRICTS Is there a place for the arts in the Arts District? Conceived as a downtown cultural oasis, it’s developed into a real estate playground, October 13, 1985 Can sculpture keep its place in the sun? Giant skyscrapers threaten to overshadow DMA garden, July 2, 1985 Donald Judd’s austere kingdom: A sculptor driven by a powerful vision has made the southwest Texas landscape his own museum, February 12, 1989 Remaking a masterpiece: The Kimbell should rethink its expansion plan, October 29, 1989 San Antonio museum: A recycling success story, April 21, 1991 Economy, additions revive Arts District: Backers hope area at last fulfills its potential, July 26, 1998 Constructing culture: New museums are springing up in all corners of Texas, April 18, 1999 Hidden riches: A calm exterior doesn’t give away new Houston museum’s interior surprises, March 25, 2000 State of the arts in Fort Worth: Museum is latest gem in Cultural District, but area still lacks identity, November 17, 2002 Thoroughly modern museum: The Kimbell’s new neighbor is strong, simple building design at its best. Serene spaces, commitment to craftsmanship help reaffirm FW’s standing as an oasis for art, December 8, 2002 Knitting together the Arts District: Master plan for performance center envisions an area linked by plazas, greenery, and people, September 10, 2003 A design so artful, you may not notice: At Nasher Sculpture Center, what you don’t see is as impressive as what you do. Architect Piano creates a precise blend of light, texture, and mood, October 19, 2003 5. HISTORIC PRESERVATION Preserving a painful past: Controversial tower would bring people to Oswald’s perch, August 16, 1987 The storm over Mrs. Craft’s house: The late civil rights leader’s home offers a lesson in the politics of preservation, March 13, 1988 The state of State-Thomas: A once-vital downtown area is poised to come back to life. So why doesn’t it? December 25, 1988 Urban History: Fort Worth’s Southside has stayed in character, March 23, 1989 Library or parking lot? Time is running out for a downtown Fort Worth landmark, September 1, 1990 In Grapevine, everything old is news: City hopes efforts to preserve its past will be drawing card for business in future, November 3, 1991 Preservation times two: New museum will hold history of women and Fair Park building, October 18, 1998 A tale of two houses: Notable buildings face different fates as preservationists and developers clash, January 4, 2004 Saving beauty: The quirky glories of the Mercantile Building escape the wrecking ball, February 19, 2006 6. TEXAS ARCHITECTS AND DEVELOPERS The education of Harlan Crow: The son of the world’s largest developer wants to build a few good buildings and a liveable downtown. But first, he had to teach himself how, November 11, 1984 Dilbeck, Meyer, and Ford: Dallas architects of the forties and fifties and their enduring contributions, October 6, 1985 Dream houses: Rediscovering Hal Thomson’s legacy of architectural eclecticism, January 25, 1988 Young guns: A new generation of architects is redrawing the Texas landscape, June 23, 1991 Art and commerce: Dallas architects Lang & Witchell left a legacy of eclectic designs, July 5, 1992 Artists in residence: A handful of architects champion modern flair amid retro-house Dallas, June 23, 2002 Dallas developer builds reputation for creativity: Cheatham’s eclectic mix of modernity has trusted foundation, June 23, 2002 Stately grace: Meadows exhibit celebrates Mark Lemmon’s landmarks, April 11, 2005 7. AESTHETICS AND ARCHITECTURE Built fast: But they last. Avion Village was built as temporary wartime housing in 1941, but its sturdy, prefab walls are standing strong forty-four years later, July 28, 1985 Borrowing from the past: Industrial-age Crystal Palace influences computer-age Infomart, January 13, 1985 Instant history on the prairie: In drawing on the past, architects have achieved the hopelessly eclectic in the new land north of LBJ, January 19, 1986 The Crescent: Dallas’s newest, glitziest high-rise promises us a great building, but does it deliver the goods? March 30, 1986 A prism on the skyline: Allied Bank Tower adds a unique and changing shape, September 28, 1986 The new skyline: Once it looked like Everytown, USA. Now Dallas has grown up, December 13, 1987 A decade of dazzle: At its ten-year mark, the Hyatt says “Dallas“ like no other building, May 10, 1988 Painting the prairie: IBM’s splashy new headquarters brightens a gray flannel image, October 9, 1988 A sound beginning: The Meyerson—elitist enclave or municipal monument? September 17, 1989 An old friend triumphs anew: The Hall of State redo affirms the power of great architecture, November 14, 1989 A way of life set in stone: Cistercian Abbey’s church evokes history, May 29, 1992 Score it a hit: The Ballpark in Arlington may not be a home run, but it’s pleasing enough to drive in plenty of fans, April 10, 1994 The Rachofsky residence is an artistic triumph: Meier’s world-class design achieves his utopian ideal, November 10, 1996 Routine flight: By playing it safe on design, the new arena misses the chance to soar, July 30, 2001 A monument to heroes: Dallas Police Memorial is an edgy, contemporary tribute that’s a triumph, April 8, 2001 Let it be: Don’t move it or redesign it. The JFK Memorial is what it is, April 10, 2006 Afterword. The Tradition of Architecture Criticism in Texas (Stephen Fox) Index

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Book SynopsisHonorable Mention,ALAA-Arvey Foundation Book Award,Association of Latin American Art Finalist,2024 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award,College Art AssociationHow Mexican artists and intellectuals created a new identity for modern Mexico City through its ties to Aztec Tenochtitlan. After archaeologists rediscovered a corner of the Templo Mayor in 1914, artists, intellectuals, and government officials attempted to revive Tenochtitlan as an instrument for reassessing Mexican national identity in the wake of the Revolution of 1910. What followed was a conceptual excavation of the original Mexica capital in relation to the transforming urban landscape of modern Mexico City. Revolutionary-era scholars took a renewed interest in sixteenth century maps as they recognized an intersection between Tenochtitlan and the foundation of a Spanish colonial settlement directly over it. Meanwhile, Mexico City developed with modern roads and expanded civic areas as agents of nationalism promoted concepts like indigenismo, the embrace of Indigenous cultural expressions. The promotion of artworks and new architectural projects such as Diego Rivera's Anahuacalli Museum helped to make real the notion of a modern Tenochtitlan. Employing archival materials, newspaper reports, and art criticism from 1914 to 1964, Resurrecting Tenochtitlan connects art history with urban studies to reveal the construction of a complex physical and cultural layout for Mexico's modern capital.Trade ReviewLike all important urban centers, Mexico City is composed of layers of history, culture, architecture, and urban and demographic changes, and its historical foundation still plays an important role in Mexico’s political and social life. This book aims to show how these layers and foundational myths affect modern understandings of the city...Deftly weaving together archival documents and maps, graphic ideations of the city’s past and present, and historical accounts, [Resurrecting Tenochtitlan] presents [Mexico City's] complexity as a space of contestation in which different actors vie to articulate their ideological positions within the rapidly changing environment of this historically grounded city. * CHOICE *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Abbreviations 1. Imagining Tenochtitlan 2. Archaeologists Set the Stage 3. The Civic Art of Early Maps 4. Picturing the Capital, Integrating the Nation 5. The Perfect Tenochtitlan 6. Mexico City: Yesterday, Today, and Always 7. Tenochtitlan Restaged Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. China’s land borders, shared with fourteen other nations, are the world’s longest. Like all borders, they are not just lines on a map but also spaces whose histories and futures are defined by their frontier status. An ambitious appraisal of China’s borderlands, Shifting Sands addresses the full scope and importance of these regions, illustrating their transformation from imperial backwaters to hotbeds of resource exploitation and human development in the age of neoliberal globalization. Xiaoxuan Lu brings to bear an original combination of archival research, fieldwork, cartography, and landscape analysis, broadening our understanding of the political economy and cultural changes in China’s borderlands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While conventional wisdom looks to the era of Deng Xiaoping Table of Contents List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction. Stratigraphy of China’s Borderlands Part I. Exchanges and Flows The International Development of China Infrastructure: China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) Logistics: China Railway Container Transport Corporation (CRCT) Expertise: China National Machinery Industry Corporation (SINOMACH) Resources: China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) Part II. Corridors and Concessions China and the Transborder Subregions in Asia Silk Road Urbanism: New Town Development in the China-Laos Borderlands The Xinjiang Model: Road Construction in the Kyrgyzstan-China Borderlands Shan-shui Memory: Water Commodification in the China-Korea Borderlands Part III. Settlements and Memories Characteristics of China’s Border Settlements Southwestern Borderlands Northwestern Borderlands Northeastern Borderlands Epilogue Index

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Book Synopsis2024 PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban PlanningAn on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements, showing how one of the world’s most contested landscapes was produced by unexpected conflicts and collaborations among widely divergent actors. Since capturing the West Bank in 1967, Israel has overseen the construction of scores of settlements across the territory’s rocky hilltops. The settlements are part of a fierce political conflict. But they are not just hotly contested political ventures. They are also something more everyday: residential architectural projects. In the Land of the Patriarchsis an on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements. Noam Shoked shows how settlements have been shaped not only by the decisions of military generals, high-profile politicians, and prominent architects but also by a wide range of actors, including real estate developers, envTable of Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Urban Transplants Chapter 2. Community Settlements Chapter 3. Quality-of-Life Settlements Chapter 4. Faithful Cities Chapter 5. Outposts Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix: Planning, Design, and Development Agencies Mentioned in the Book Notes Index

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Book Synopsis2024 PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban PlanningAn on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements, showing how one of the world’s most contested landscapes was produced by unexpected conflicts and collaborations among widely divergent actors. Since capturing the West Bank in 1967, Israel has overseen the construction of scores of settlements across the territory’s rocky hilltops. The settlements are part of a fierce political conflict. But they are not just hotly contested political ventures. They are also something more everyday: residential architectural projects. In the Land of the Patriarchsis an on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements. Noam Shoked shows how settlements have been shaped not only by the decisions of military generals, high-profile politicians, and prominent architects but also by a wide range of actors, including real estate developers, envTable of Contents Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Urban Transplants Chapter 2. Community Settlements Chapter 3. Quality-of-Life Settlements Chapter 4. Faithful Cities Chapter 5. Outposts Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix: Planning, Design, and Development Agencies Mentioned in the Book Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWith In the Skin of the City, António Tomás traces the history and transformation of Luanda, Angola, the nation’s capital as well as one of the oldest settlements founded by the European colonial powers in the Southern Hemisphere. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research alongside his own experiences growing up in Luanda, Tomás shows how the city’s physical and social boundaries—its skin—constitute porous and shifting interfaces between center and margins, settler and Native, enslaver and enslaved, formal and informal, and the powerful and the powerless. He focuses on Luanda’s “asphalt frontier”—the (colonial) line between the planned urban center and the ad hoc shantytowns that surround it—and the ways squatters are central to Luanda’s historical urban process. In their relationship with the state and their struggle to gain rights to the city, squatters embody the process of negotiating LuandaTrade Review"Tomás's analysis is a generous mélange of ethnographic and historical study of Luanda's changing urban condition over time, offering palimpsests of a changing city. . . . [The Skin of the City] is at its best when it focuses on the interconnections between various urban processes, inscribed locally, as well as the borders that enable such urban remaking." -- Shakirah E. Hudani * Journal of Planning History *"A very readable introduction to the city—and one that both draws the reader into an engaged understanding as well as providing plentiful material for further study. . . . [T]he book is highly recommended for emerging generations of urban scholars interested in not only the south and especially Sub-Saharan Africa, but also wider urban space and form, and ongoing dynamic urban transformations worldwide." -- Paul Jenkins * Journal of Southern African Studies *"Tomás’s book is an engaging and exhaustive study of the history, politics, economy, and culture of a constantly changing and unpredictable African capital city. In this sense, it will undoubtedly become a reference for researchers interested in urban studies, history, anthropology, and similar disciplines." -- Melusi Nkomo * Exertions *"In the Skin of the City is a finely crafted book about the political economy of one of the biggest cities in the Global South, which speaks to urban, social, and political theory. It builds on thorough research, engages its audience with a compelling narrative, and is a must-read for anyone who has an interest in Luanda, Angola, and urban Africa more generally." -- Till Förster * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsMaps and Figures ix Abbreviations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: The Frontier Within 1 Part I. Formation 1. Un-building History to Build the Present 29 2. Ordering Urban Expansion 59 Part II. Stasis 3. A Place to Dwell in Times of Change 91 4. A City Decentered 119 Part III. Fragmentation 5. Reversing (Urban) Composition 147 6. The Urban Yet to Come 176 Coda: Is Luanda Not Paris 204 Glossary 215 Notes 219 Bibliography 241 Index 261

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Book SynopsisWith In the Skin of the City, António Tomás traces the history and transformation of Luanda, Angola, the nation’s capital as well as one of the oldest settlements founded by the European colonial powers in the Southern Hemisphere. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research alongside his own experiences growing up in Luanda, Tomás shows how the city’s physical and social boundaries—its skin—constitute porous and shifting interfaces between center and margins, settler and Native, enslaver and enslaved, formal and informal, and the powerful and the powerless. He focuses on Luanda’s “asphalt frontier”—the (colonial) line between the planned urban center and the ad hoc shantytowns that surround it—and the ways squatters are central to Luanda’s historical urban process. In their relationship with the state and their struggle to gain rights to the city, squatters embody the process of negotiating LuandaTrade Review"Tomás's analysis is a generous mélange of ethnographic and historical study of Luanda's changing urban condition over time, offering palimpsests of a changing city. . . . [The Skin of the City] is at its best when it focuses on the interconnections between various urban processes, inscribed locally, as well as the borders that enable such urban remaking." -- Shakirah E. Hudani * Journal of Planning History *"A very readable introduction to the city—and one that both draws the reader into an engaged understanding as well as providing plentiful material for further study. . . . [T]he book is highly recommended for emerging generations of urban scholars interested in not only the south and especially Sub-Saharan Africa, but also wider urban space and form, and ongoing dynamic urban transformations worldwide." -- Paul Jenkins * Journal of Southern African Studies *"Tomás’s book is an engaging and exhaustive study of the history, politics, economy, and culture of a constantly changing and unpredictable African capital city. In this sense, it will undoubtedly become a reference for researchers interested in urban studies, history, anthropology, and similar disciplines." -- Melusi Nkomo * Exertions *"In the Skin of the City is a finely crafted book about the political economy of one of the biggest cities in the Global South, which speaks to urban, social, and political theory. It builds on thorough research, engages its audience with a compelling narrative, and is a must-read for anyone who has an interest in Luanda, Angola, and urban Africa more generally." -- Till Förster * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsMaps and Figures ix Abbreviations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: The Frontier Within 1 Part I. Formation 1. Un-building History to Build the Present 29 2. Ordering Urban Expansion 59 Part II. Stasis 3. A Place to Dwell in Times of Change 91 4. A City Decentered 119 Part III. Fragmentation 5. Reversing (Urban) Composition 147 6. The Urban Yet to Come 176 Coda: Is Luanda Not Paris 204 Glossary 215 Notes 219 Bibliography 241 Index 261

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Book SynopsisIn Berlin, decrepit structures do not always denote urban blight. Decayed buildings are incorporated into everyday life as residences, exhibition spaces, shops, offices, and as leisure space. As nodes of public dialogue, they serve as platforms for dissenting views about the future and past of Berlin. In this book, Daniela Sandler introduces the concept of counterpreservation as a way to understand this intentional appropriation of decrepitude. The embrace of decay is a sign of Berlin''s iconoclastic rebelliousness, but it has also been incorporated into the mainstream economy of tourism and development as part of the city''s countercultural cachet. Sandler presents the possibilities and shortcomings of counterpreservation as a dynamic force in Berlin and as a potential concept for other cities. Counterpreservation is part of Berlin''s fabric: in the city''s famed Hausprojekte (living projects) such as the Køpi, Tuntenhaus, and KA 86; in cultural centers such as the HaTrade ReviewSandler concludes with a brilliantly argued case for the worldwide significance of counterpreservation as a conceptual force that challenges the fundamental tenets of historic preservation as it is practiced in the West today. * Choice *Sandler imagines how architecture might grapple with the concept of transience, creating buildings that show the futility of hanging on to the past.... Any good contemporary reading of Berlin must come to grips with the city's relationship to its own decay. Sandler's accessible, smart book deserves a place on the reading list for the thoughtful kind of Berlin tourist, for student study abroad groups, and for those writing about the many rises and falls that have happened in the capital city of what has come to be known as 'The Berlin Republic.' * The German Quarterly *Sandler sees a categorical difference between counterpreservation and the fascination with ruins and ancient monuments inherent in some traditional conservationist approaches.... In general Sandler’s book stands out for her perspicacious perspective, which is also related to the fact that she looks at the city from the perspective of an outsider.... A must-read for any student or scholar interested in Berlin’s history and the fascinating ways in which the past manifests in the city’s urban fabric. * Planning Perspectives *Daniela Sandler presents rugged methods of stewardship and alteration of Berlin buildings that constitute a 'reflective nostalgia' instead of a 'restorative nostalgia,' revealing preservation as a productive practice with its own embedded political and cultural editorial power.... May spur the field to reconsider that very basic mode of always interrogating, sometimes appreciating, and often conserving heritage artifacts as we find them—which has long been called simply preservation. * buildings & landscapes *

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Book SynopsisIn Saving Our Cities, William W. Goldsmith shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather than places with problems. With strongly revived cities and suburbs, working as places that serve all their residents, metropolitan areas will thrive, thus making the national economy more productive, the environment better protected, the citizenry better educated, and the society more reflective, sensitive, and humane. Goldsmith argues that America has been in the habit of abusing its cities and their poorest suburbs, which are always the first to be blamed for society's ills and the last to be helped. As federal and state budgets, regulations, and programs line up with the interests of giant corporations and privileged citizens, they impose austerity on cities, shortchange public schools, make it hard to get nutritious food, and inflict the drug war on unlucky neighborhoods. Frustration with inequality is spreading. Parents and teachers call persistently for improvemTrade Review"Saving Our Cities provides a compelling argument that the most important 'urban' policies we can pursue are those that are not actually regarded as `urban’ at all. William W. Goldsmith convincingly shows that to improve our cities we need `upstream’ policies that address social problems that have a disproportionately negative impact on urban areas. This is an important book that should improve the way we think about urban policy." -- Edward G. Goetz, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs at the University of Minnesota, author of New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy"William W. Goldsmith lays out a novel path for urban reform. Critiquing policies beyond the usual suspects, he shows how federal and state decisions have harmed city residents by promoting austerity, unequal schools, bad food, and the drug war. Saving Our Cities offers a forceful and optimistic road map for progressive change." -- Margaret Weir, Avice M. Saint Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Sociology and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, author of Politics and Jobs"Saving Our Cities is a fresh and welcome contribution to our study of cities, planning, and change. It reminds us that, with enlightened state and federal action, we can reduce inequality and meet the needs of most city residents for improved housing, better transportation, and enhanced public spaces." -- Norman Krumholz, Cleveland State University, past president of the American Planning Association, coauthor of Making Equity Planning Work

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Book SynopsisCities for Profit examines the phenomenon of urban real estate megaprojects in Asiamassive, privately built planned urban developments that have captured the imagination of politicians, policymakers, and citizens across the region. These controversial projects, embraced by elites, occasion massive displacement and have extensive social and economic impacts. Gavin Shatkin finds commonalities and similarities in dozens of such projects in Jakarta, Kolkata, and Chongqing. Shatkin is at the vanguard of urban studies in his focus on real estate. Just as cities are increasingly defined and remapped according to the value of the land under their residents' feet, the lives of city dwellers are shaped and constrained by their ability to keep up with rising costs of urban life. Scholars and policy and planning professionals alike will benefit from Shatkin's comprehensive research. Cities for Profit contains insights from more than 150 interviews, site visits to projects, Trade ReviewCities for Profit is theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich. It provides a comparative lens focusing on the role of the state in Asia's real estate turn. It is an ideal and useful text for graduate-level courses on comparative urbanism, urban politics, international planning, land development, and the state–society relationship. For researchers who are drawn to the merits of comparative urban studies, this book is invaluable. * Journal of Urban Affairs *Scholars, policy makers, and urban planners could benefit from this excellent, comprehensive research. The reading is essential to students and scholars of urban theory and policy, urban studies in Asia, and Asian political economy in general. * Choice *Cities for Profit provides a significant perspective on the current strategies being enacted across urban Asia by political actors. Beyond the specific megaprojects described in the case studies, readers will gain valuable information about the present state of land reforms and urban processes in these countries. Shatkin's careful analysis proves that the local manifestation of neoliberalizing forces is highly varied because of the historically and spatially contingent conditions shaping urban politics. In addition, the role of infrastructure as a significant component for urban megaproject development recurs throughout the book and is a subject that could be developed in further research. In conclusion, Cities for Profit deserves to be read by all researchers interested in the dynamics of contemporary Asian urbanism and the spatial forms that accompany new state strategies. * International Journal of Urban and Regional research *Shatkin's...in-depth analysis of the cases reveals agents maneuvering through, within, and around complex processes and structures; comparison of the cases permits discovery of patterns of similarity and difference. Following Jennifer Robinson, he also moves us beyond the macroforces of global integration and neoliberalism to give equal consideration to the microdynamics of place. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Origins and Consequences of the Real Estate Turn 2. Comparing State Agendas of Land Monetization 3. Planned Grabs 4. Experiments in Power 5. Chongqing Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPrologue: Swim, Annie, Swim! 1. Fire and Water 2. The Eureka Moment 3. Waterfront in Despair 4. Hoboken Ho 5. Finding the C500 6. Contracts and Crawfish 7. Kafka on the Pier 8. Perspective Matters 9. The Orwellian Bureaucracy 10. The Big Jump 11. The Lady Moves to the Bronx Epilogue: Swim, New York City's Children, Swim!

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Book SynopsisPicture your downtown vacant, boarded up, while the malls surrounding your city are thriving. What would you do?In 1974 the politicians, merchants, community leaders, and business and property owners, of Ithaca, New York, joined together to transform main street into a pedestrian mall. Cornell University began an Industrial Research Park to keep and attract jobs. Developers began renovating run-down housing. City Planners crafted a long-range plan utilizing State legislation permitting a Business Improvement District (BID), with taxing authority to raise up to 20 percent of the City tax rate focused on downtown redevelopment.Shaping a City is the behind-the-scenes story of one developer's involvement, from first buying and renovating small houses, gradually expanding his thinking and projects to include a recognition of the interdependence of the entire cityjobs, infrastructure, retail, housing, industry, taxation, banking and City Planning. It is the story of hTrade ReviewShaping a City is an excellent historical perspective of downtown Ithaca's revitalization efforts since 1971 through the eyes of an active local developer and civic leader... It is refreshing to read a civic-minded developer discuss- ing redevelopment history. I hope that this book stimulates more stories from developers perhaps with the assistance of scholars. -- Terry Farris * Journal of Urban Affairs *

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Book SynopsisBuffalo at the Crossroads is a diverse set of cutting-edge essays. Twelve authors highlight the outsized importance of Buffalo, New York, within the story of American urbanism. Across the collection, they consider the history of Buffalo''s built environment in light of contemporary developments and in relationship to the evolving interplay between nature, industry, and architecture.The essays examine Buffalo''s architectural heritage in rich context: the Second Industrial Revolution; the City Beautiful movement; world''s fairs; grain, railroad, and shipping industries; urban renewal and so-called white flight; and the larger networks of labor and production that set the city''s economic fate. The contributors pay attention to currents that connect contemporary architectural work in Buffalo to the legacies established by its esteemed architectural founders: Richardson, Olmsted, Adler, Sullivan, Bethune, Wright, Saarinen, and others. Buffalo at the CrossroadsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Buffalo at the Crossroads Part I: Buffalo as Territory 1. "The Olmsted City": Heritage Landscapes and Civic Identity in Twentieth-Century Buffalo 2. The Peace Bridge and the Rhetoric of Hospitality at the US-Canada Border 3. Of Silo Dreams and Deviant Houses: Uneven Geographies of Abandonment in Buffalo, New York Part II: Buffalo as Utopia 4. "In the Thought of the World": Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Administration Building 5. Max Abramovitz's Temple Beth Zio: "An Airport for the Spirit, Where the Soul Takes Off for Heaven" 6. Putting the Rust in Rust Belt: Architectural Tourism and Industrial Heritage 7. Anticipating Imags: Buffalo Industry under Construction, 1906–1943 Part III: Buffalo as Experiment 8. In the Buffalo Community, but Not of It: Polish Migrants, Urban Poverty, and the American Nation in Buffalo at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 9. Upstate and Downstate Avant-Gardes: Artists and Artist Communities in Postindustrial Buffalo and New York City during the 1970s 10. Lake Effect: Art and Childhood in 1970s Buffalo Part IV: Buffalo as Palimpsest 11. Rust Belt Cosmopolitanism: Resettlement Urbanism in Buffalo, New York 12. Cropping the View: Reyner Banham and the Image of Buffalo Coda

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Book SynopsisBuffalo at the Crossroads is a diverse set of cutting-edge essays. Twelve authors highlight the outsized importance of Buffalo, New York, within the story of American urbanism. Across the collection, they consider the history of Buffalo''s built environment in light of contemporary developments and in relationship to the evolving interplay between nature, industry, and architecture.The essays examine Buffalo''s architectural heritage in rich context: the Second Industrial Revolution; the City Beautiful movement; world''s fairs; grain, railroad, and shipping industries; urban renewal and so-called white flight; and the larger networks of labor and production that set the city''s economic fate. The contributors pay attention to currents that connect contemporary architectural work in Buffalo to the legacies established by its esteemed architectural founders: Richardson, Olmsted, Adler, Sullivan, Bethune, Wright, Saarinen, and others. Buffalo at the CrossroadsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Buffalo at the Crossroads Part I: Buffalo as Territory 1. "The Olmsted City": Heritage Landscapes and Civic Identity in Twentieth-Century Buffalo 2. The Peace Bridge and the Rhetoric of Hospitality at the US-Canada Border 3. Of Silo Dreams and Deviant Houses: Uneven Geographies of Abandonment in Buffalo, New York Part II: Buffalo as Utopia 4. "In the Thought of the World": Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Administration Building 5. Max Abramovitz's Temple Beth Zio: "An Airport for the Spirit, Where the Soul Takes Off for Heaven" 6. Putting the Rust in Rust Belt: Architectural Tourism and Industrial Heritage 7. Anticipating Imags: Buffalo Industry under Construction, 1906–1943 Part III: Buffalo as Experiment 8. In the Buffalo Community, but Not of It: Polish Migrants, Urban Poverty, and the American Nation in Buffalo at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 9. Upstate and Downstate Avant-Gardes: Artists and Artist Communities in Postindustrial Buffalo and New York City during the 1970s 10. Lake Effect: Art and Childhood in 1970s Buffalo Part IV: Buffalo as Palimpsest 11. Rust Belt Cosmopolitanism: Resettlement Urbanism in Buffalo, New York 12. Cropping the View: Reyner Banham and the Image of Buffalo Coda

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Book SynopsisHow did Chicago, a city known for commerce, come to have such a splendid public waterfrontits most treasured asset? Lakefront reveals a story of social, political, and legal conflict in which private and public rights have clashed repeatedly over time, only to produce, as a kind of miracle, a generally happy ending. Joseph D. Kearney and Thomas W. Merrill study the lakefront''s evolution from the middle of the nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Their findings have significance for understanding not only Chicago''s history but also the law''s part in determining the future of significant urban resources such as waterfronts. The Chicago lakefront is where the American public trust doctrine, holding certain public resources off limits to private development, was born. This book describes the circumstances that gave rise to the doctrine and its fluctuating importance over time, and reveals how it was resurrected in the later twentieth century to become tTrade ReviewKearney and Merrill cogently present all of the complexities, including key doctrinal debates about whether the state owned submerged lands over tidal waters or navigable-in-fact waters. The text is lively, with the authors recounting behind-the-scenes activities in the legislature and incorporating newspaper accounts. * Natural Resources & Environment *This highly readable text offers a fascinating story of what happened in courts of law, lawyers' offices, legislative and other official bodies, and offices of major corporations—as well as through the actions of public-spirited citizens—to produce and preserve this wonderful amenity. Lucid prose nearly void of legalese, adequate illustrations, and abundant footnotes ensure a general popularity for this excellent book. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Lake Front Steal 2. The Lake Front Case 3. The Watchdog of the Lakefront 4. The Struggle for Streeterville 5. Reversing the Chicago River 6. North Lake Shore Drive 7. South Lake Shore Drive and Bridging the River 8. The Transformation of the Public Trust Doctrine 9. The Lakefront Today Conclusion

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Book SynopsisSpatial Revolution is the first comparative parallel study of Soviet architecture and planning to create a narrative arc across a vast geography. The narrative binds together three critical industrial-residential projects in Baku, Magnitogorsk, and Kharkiv, built during the first fifteen years of the Soviet project and followed attentively worldwide after the collapse of capitalist markets in 1929.Among the revelations provided by Christina E. Crawford is the degree to which outside experts participated in the construction of the Soviet industrial complex, while facing difficult topographies, near-impossible deadlines, and inchoate theories of socialist space-making. Crawford describes how early Soviet architecture and planning activities were kinetic and negotiated and how questions about the proper distribution of people and industry under socialism were posed and refined through the construction of brick and mortar, steel and concrete projects, Trade ReviewCrawford brilliantly showcases the materiality of the planning process. Her skills as licensed architect are on full display as she walks readers through planners' maps, travel notes, cartograms and similar documents, using these to produce a lived and practised genealogy of socialist design. * Contemporary European History *The contribution of Spatial Revolution to the history of socialism and Soviet architecture is remarkable for the scope of covered topics and the method chosen by its author. * Eurasian Geography and Economics *One can discern the outlines of a framework for the study of socialism that is not caught up in the tired paradigm of an oscillation between brilliant utopias and their mundane failures, but rather one that sees in the evolution of plans and meta-plans a version of the flexibility and adaptation often thought to be absent from state socialism. * Journal of Urban History *Christina Crawford's richly illustrated Spatial Revolution provides a fascinating view into the distinctive, experimental, often ad hoc, yet globally connected development of Soviet planning and housing strategies in the 1920s and 1930s. * Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians *Spatial Revolution is an expertly written and beautifully crafted book that reshapes conversations about early Soviet architecture and planning. The book is of interest not just to urban and architectural historians, but to scholars of the Soviet period broadly. * The Russian Review *Crawford's skillful handling of technical detail ensures that Spatial Revolution remains accessible for nonspecialists, allowing it to provide a valuable entry point into this area for scholars and students of cognate disciplines. Perhaps most important, the work highlights the fact that the lessons from these revolutionary efforts to materialize environments based on principles of livability, social equity, and sustainability have significant currency for us today. * Technology and Culture *Spatial Revolution examines the first fifteen years of Soviet architecture and planning in Baku, Magnitogorsk, and Kharkiv—three economically central cities where early socialist architecture and planning first took shape in the built environment. * The Russian Reviewer *Christina E. Crawford's rich and engaging new monograph, and its deep examination of the internal dynamics of Soviet urbanism — in particular, the way plans were framed, cultivated and put into practice — makes the existence of uniquely Soviet spatial politics clear. * SEER *SPATIAL REVOLUTION IS A PARALLEL STORY OF THEORETICAL debates and the physical realisation of socialist space-making in the early Soviet Union * Europe-Asia Studies *Crawford has produced an eloquently written and subtly argued book that willnd a wide audience among architecture historians, planning historians, urban historians, historians of the Soviet Union, and many others. * Journal of Planning History *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Oil City: Baku, 1920–1927 1. Socialism Means Housing 2. From Garden Cities to Urban Superblocks 3. A Plan for the Proletariat Part II. Steel City: Magnitogorsk, 1929–1932 4. The Great Debate 5. Competition and Visions 6. Frankfurt on the Steppe Part III. Machine City: Kharkiv, 1930–1932 7. From Tractors to Territory 8. Socialist Urbanization through Standardization Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe City is Ours accounts how urban politics mediated the rise of Kurdish nationhood and mobilization in Diyarbakir, Turkey. Muna Güvenç elucidates how urban and architectural forms are not merely the backdrop of the cityscape where political struggles unfold; they constitute the very essence of these conflicts. Güvenç posits that urban spaces offer wiggle room, turning oppression into chances for dissent and resilience and offering opportunities for vulnerable minority groups to create sociopolitical blocs and mobilizations. Güvenç takes readers from municipal halls to the streets and illustrates how, in the early 2000s, pro-Kurdish parties harnessed urban planning to resist coercion and foster Kurdish mobilization in Turkey. Güvenç challenges readers to rethink urban neoliberalism, new forms of nationalisms and mobilizations, and the ways they shape cities and politics. The City is Ours is a profound awakening, an invitation to all architects and

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Book SynopsisThe City is Ours accounts how urban politics mediated the rise of Kurdish nationhood and mobilization in Diyarbakir, Turkey. Muna Güvenç elucidates how urban and architectural forms are not merely the backdrop of the cityscape where political struggles unfold; they constitute the very essence of these conflicts. Güvenç posits that urban spaces offer wiggle room, turning oppression into chances for dissent and resilience and offering opportunities for vulnerable minority groups to create sociopolitical blocs and mobilizations. Güvenç takes readers from municipal halls to the streets and illustrates how, in the early 2000s, pro-Kurdish parties harnessed urban planning to resist coercion and foster Kurdish mobilization in Turkey. Güvenç challenges readers to rethink urban neoliberalism, new forms of nationalisms and mobilizations, and the ways they shape cities and politics. The City is Ours is a profound awakening, an invitation to all architects and

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Book SynopsisConstructing Gardens, Cultivating the City is the first cultural history of major new parks developed in Paris in the late twentieth century, as part of the city’s program of adaptive reuse of industrial spaces. Thanks to laws that gave the city more political autonomy, Paris’s local government launched a campaign of park creation in the late 1970s that continued to the turn of the millennium. The parks in this book represent this campaign and illustrate different facets of their cultural and historical context. Archival research, interviews, and analyses of the parks reveal how postmodern debates about urban planning, the historic city, public space, and nature’s presence in an urban setting influenced their designs. In sum, the city adopted the garden as a model for public parks, investing in complex, richly symbolic and representational spaces. These parks were intended to represent contemporary twists on traditional designs and serve local residents as much as they would contribute to Paris’s role as a world city. The parks’ development process often included points of conflict, pointing to differing views on what Parisian space should represent and fundamental contradictions between the characteristics of public space and the garden as it is traditionally defined. These parks demonstrate the ongoing cultivation of the city over time, in which transformed sites not only fulfil new functions but also engage with history and their surroundings to create new meaning. They stand for landscape as a form of signifying cultural production that directly engages with other art forms and ways of knowing. Just as the Luxembourg Gardens, the Tuileries, and the Buttes-Chaumont parks exemplify their eras’ cultural dynamics, such parks as the Jardin Atlantique, Parc André-Citroën, and the Jardin des Halles express contemporary French culture within the archetypal space of their era, the city. Finally, they point the way to current trends in landscape architecture, such as citizen gardening and ecological initiatives.

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Book SynopsisAmong urban designers and municipal officials, the term encroachment is defined as a deviation from the official master plan. But in cities today, such informal modifications to the urban fabric are deeply enmeshed with formal planning procedures. Master Plans and Encroachments examines informality in the high-modernist city of Islamabad as a strategic conformity to official schemes and regulations rather than as a deviation from them. For the new administrative capital of Pakistan designed in 1959 by Greek architect and planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Islamabad’s master plan offers a clear template of formal urban design within which informal spaces and processes have been articulated. Drawing on deep archival research, wide-ranging interviews, and an array of visual material, including photographs, maps, and architectural drawings, Faiza Moatasim shows how Islamabad’s master plan is not simply a blueprint that guides future urban development or makes its violations apparent; it is used by both city officials and citizens to develop informal spaces that accommodate unfulfilled needs and desires of those living and working in the city. Master Plans and Encroachments is the first book that examines the informal practices of both the privileged and the underprivileged. The book highlights how low-, middle-, and upper-income people do not randomly build informal spaces; they strategically use architectural techniques to support their informal claims to space, which are often met with the government’s tacit approval. By focusing on those spaces in Islamabad’s urban fabric that are not part of its official master plan, the book demonstrates how planning actually works in complex ways.Trade Review"Master Plans and Encroachments offers a rich account of the history of development of a planned modernist city, which unlike its counterparts—Brasilia and Chandigarh—is relatively unknown to Western audiences. Faiza Moatasim details a fascinating story about Islamabad’s design and its transformations through informal urbanism that will appeal to architects, planners, urban designers, historians, and others interested in the development of cities." * Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, University of California, Los Angeles *"Faiza Moatasim’s insightful mapping of Islamabad establishes that the modern city and its architecture are not synonymous and cannot contain a single meaning. In her analysis, the usual binaries dissolve and form fluid protocols employed both by the elite and marginalized in unintended and often unanticipated ways. Master Plans and Encroachments constructs a robust foundation for establishing a theoretical framework for understanding the on-the-ground realities of emerging urbanism in multiple geographies." * Rahul Mehrotra, Harvard University *

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Book SynopsisUrbanization is a system of power and knowledge, and today’s city functions through the expansive material infrastructures of the urban order. In The Urban Apparatus, Reinhold Martin analyzes urbanization and the contemporary city in aesthetic, socioeconomic, and mediapolitical terms. He argues that understanding the city as infrastructure reveals urbanization to be a way of imparting functional, aesthetic, and cognitive order to a contradictory, doubly bound neoliberal regime.Blending critical philosophy, political theory, and media theory, The Urban Apparatus explores how the aesthetics of cities and their political economies overlap. In a series of ten essays, with a detailed theoretical introduction, Martin explores questions related to urban life, drawn from a wide range of global topics—from the fiscal crisis in Detroit to speculative development in Mumbai to the landscape of Mars, from discussions of race and the environment to housing and economic inequality. Each essay proposes a particular “mediator” (or a material complex) that is shaped by imaginative practices, each answering the question “What is a city, today?” The Urban Apparatus serves as an “urban” bookend to the architectural questions explored by Martin in his earlier book Utopia’s Ghost, and ultimately offers readers a way to think politically about urbanization.Trade Review"Reinhold Martin's work productively connects debates on architectural culture to fundamental questions related to the political economy of city-building, urbanism, and urbanization. His ideas are at once philosophically grounded, historically nuanced, spatially attuned, and political."—Neil Brenner, Harvard University"The Urban Apparatus offers a brilliant meditation on the new realities and experiences of the city in a fluid and rapidly changing global situation. Reinhold Martin explores an extraordinarily diverse set of objects in ways that are illuminating, original, and often deeply moving—all of which take on special urgency in our current national and geo-political climates."—Phillip E. Wegner, University of FloridaTable of ContentsContents Preface Introduction: The Urban Apparatus 1. City, Country, World 2. Financial Imaginaries 3. The Thing About Cities 4. Public and Common(s) 5. Horizons of Thought 6. Polis = Oikos 7. Notes of the Housing Question 8. Broken Windows 9. Beijing in Detroit 10. Infrastructure and Mediapolitics Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAn alternative history of capitalist urbanization through the lens of the commons Characterized by shared, self-managed access to food, housing, and the basic conditions for a creative life, the commons are essential for communities to flourish and protect spaces of collective autonomy from capitalist encroachment. In a narrative spanning more than three centuries, Against the Commons provides a radical counterhistory of urban planning that explores how capitalism and spatial politics have evolved to address this challenge.Highlighting episodes from preindustrial England, New York City and Chicago between the 1850s and the early 1900s, Weimar-era Berlin, and neoliberal Milan, Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago shows how capitalist urbanization has eroded the egalitarian, convivial life-worlds around the commons. The book combines detailed archival research with provocative critical theory to illuminate past and ongoing struggles over land, shared resources, public space, neighborhoods, creativity, and spatial imaginaries.Against the Commons underscores the ways urbanization shapes the social fabric of places and territories, lending particular awareness to the impact of planning and design initiatives on working-class communities and popular strata. Projecting history into the future, it outlines an alternative vision for a postcapitalist urban planning, one in which the structure of collective spaces is ultimately defined by the people who inhabit them.Trade Review "Against the Commons rewrites the history of capitalist urbanization since the eighteenth century by focusing on the role of planning in struggles around social reproduction. This fresh and exciting book is an invitation to scholars, students, and practitioners in planning, architecture, and urban studies to rethink the past and the future of urbanization."—Łukasz Stanek, University of Manchester "Against the Commons is one of the most important, original, and radical contributions to planning theory and history in the past fifty years. While Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago offers a sharply critical perspective on the project of planning under capitalism, he also provides an inspiring call for new forms of collective self-management that protect, extend, and empower the commons."—Neil Brenner, University of Chicago "Against the Commons draws attention to the sparsely studied negative agency of urban planning and capitalist urbanization in the demise of achieving improvements associated with the commons, such as collectivization of society and creation of communal space." —Environment & Urbanization "Against the Commons is a truly ground-breaking work, which both deepens our understanding of the genealogies of urban planning and opens up several avenues for discussion and critique." —Housing Studies

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Book SynopsisThirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough—ravaged in the 1970s and ’80s by disinvestment and fires, then heroically revived and rebuilt in the 1990s by community activists—Jill Jonnes returns to chronicle the ongoing revival of the South Bronx. Though now globally renowned as the birthplace of hip-hop, the South Bronx remains America’s poorest urban congressional district. In this new edition, we meet the present generation of activists who are transforming their communities with the arts and greening, notably the restoration of the Bronx River. For better or worse, real estate investors have noticed, setting off new gentrification struggles.Table of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition | ix Foreword by Nilka Martell | xv Introduction: Do Not Give Way to Evil | 3 1. “It Is a Veritable Paradise,” 1639–1900 | 11 2. The First Boom, 1900–1922 | 27 3. Boss Flynn, 1922 | 41 4. “The Bronx Is a Great City,” 1923–1929 | 51 5. “Hard Hit by the Depression,” 1929–1932 | 65 6. The New Deal Years, 1933–1939 | 78 7. War Fever, 1939–1945 | 85 8. The Diaspora after the War, 1946–1953 | 91 9. “There Was No Standing Still,” 1952–1953 | 105 10. “Moses Thinks He’s God,” 1954–1959 | 117 11. The New Boss, 1959–1963 | 127 12. “Horse Was the New Thing,” 1960 | 137 13. The New “Other Half,” 1962–1966 | 144 14. The Pondiac’s Last Hurrah, 1961–1967 | 153 15. The Puerto Rican and the Priest, 1962–1967 | 164 16. Mau-mauing the City, 1967 | 175 17. Who Will Be Caudillo?, 1968–1969 | 182 18. “The Whole Place Was Caving In,” 1969–1970 | 199 19. Interlude: Sweet Days on Charlotte Street, 1925–1951 | 205 20. Charlotte Street: It Was Not a “Good” Neighborhood, 1951–1961 | 219 21. Charlotte Street: “What a Madhouse It Was,” 1961–1968 | 225 22. Charlotte Street: The Fires, 1969–1973 | 231 23. Charlotte Street: The Gangs, 1970–1975 | 236 24. Charlotte Street: The Collapse, 1973–1975 | 249 25. The Grand Concourse, 1965–1969 | 268 26. The Hotel and the Concourse, 1969–1976 | 281 27. Roosevelt Gardens, 1974–1975 | 288 28. The Grass Roots, 1974–1977 | 300 29. The President’s Magic Visit, 1977–1978 | 311 30. Disenchantment, 1979–1980 | 324 31. Charlotte Street and National Politics, 1980 | 333 32. “The Next Part of the South Bronx,” 1972–1978 | 345 33. “We’re Still Here,” 1978–1982 | 363 34. White Picket Fences, 1984 | 376 35. “South Bronx Rising,” 1985–2002 | 389 36. Still the Poorest Urban Congressional District in America, 2003–Mid-March 2020 | 441 Covid Afterword | 515 Acknowledgments for the Third Edition | 547 Notes | 551 Bibliography | 569 Third Edition Bibliography | 579 Index | 581

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Book SynopsisTopothesia reads urban planning as a mode of speculative fiction, one inextricably linked to histories of British colonialism and liberalism through a particular understanding of place. The book focuses on town planning from the late nineteenth century to the present day, showing how the contemporary geography of Britain—sharply unequal and marked by racial division—continues ideologies of place established in colonial contexts. Specifically, planning allows for the speculative construction of future places that are both utopian in their ability to resolve political disagreement and at the same tantalizingly realizable, able to be produced in concrete reality. This speculative imaginary, I argue, is only possible within the ideological framework of colonialism and the history of empire within which it developed. Topothesia refers to a rhetorical device employing the vivid depiction of an often-imaginary place. This device, Vijay shows, helps us understand urban planning as a narrative genre, one that, even in its most mundane documents, is compelled to produce elaborate fantasies of future places. The book examines specific planning movements over time to understand the form and the stakes of their speculative worlds. In building these worlds, the book shows, planners continually coopted literary critiques of the present and reveries of the future, retaining literature's aesthetics while eschewing its politics. At the same time, Vijay shows, writers and artists have dwelled within and against these colonial imaginaries to seek other means of representing place.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 1 Part I: Improving Places: Liberal Colonialism and the Speculative Imaginary of Early Planning 1. Garden Cities: The Art and Craft of Making Place in Edwardian Britain | 31 2. Planning as Imperial Cultivation in the Work of Patrick Geddes | 60 Part II: Diminishing Horizons: The Ambivalent Temporalities of Development 3. Capturing the City: Regeneration, Policing, and the Ghosts of Postcolonial Britain | 95 4. The End of London: Temporalities of the Gentrified City | 126 5. Level Up: Zadie Smith’s NW and the Promise of Progression | 158 6. Geographies of Discontent: Brexit and the Politics of Abandonment | 185 Coda | 215 Acknowledgments | 221 Notes | 225 Bibliography | 285 Index | 308

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Book SynopsisTopothesia reads urban planning as a mode of speculative fiction, one inextricably linked to histories of British colonialism and liberalism through a particular understanding of place. The book focuses on town planning from the late nineteenth century to the present day, showing how the contemporary geography of Britain—sharply unequal and marked by racial division—continues ideologies of place established in colonial contexts. Specifically, planning allows for the speculative construction of future places that are both utopian in their ability to resolve political disagreement and at the same tantalizingly realizable, able to be produced in concrete reality. This speculative imaginary, I argue, is only possible within the ideological framework of colonialism and the history of empire within which it developed. Topothesia refers to a rhetorical device employing the vivid depiction of an often-imaginary place. This device, Vijay shows, helps us understand urban planning as a narrative genre, one that, even in its most mundane documents, is compelled to produce elaborate fantasies of future places. The book examines specific planning movements over time to understand the form and the stakes of their speculative worlds. In building these worlds, the book shows, planners continually coopted literary critiques of the present and reveries of the future, retaining literature's aesthetics while eschewing its politics. At the same time, Vijay shows, writers and artists have dwelled within and against these colonial imaginaries to seek other means of representing place.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 1 Part I: Improving Places: Liberal Colonialism and the Speculative Imaginary of Early Planning 1. Garden Cities: The Art and Craft of Making Place in Edwardian Britain | 31 2. Planning as Imperial Cultivation in the Work of Patrick Geddes | 60 Part II: Diminishing Horizons: The Ambivalent Temporalities of Development 3. Capturing the City: Regeneration, Policing, and the Ghosts of Postcolonial Britain | 95 4. The End of London: Temporalities of the Gentrified City | 126 5. Level Up: Zadie Smith’s NW and the Promise of Progression | 158 6. Geographies of Discontent: Brexit and the Politics of Abandonment | 185 Coda | 215 Acknowledgments | 221 Notes | 225 Bibliography | 285 Index | 308

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Book SynopsisNew York Unbound is a critical examination of the problems and prospects of New York City as it approaches the twenty-first century and a call to arms for a new infusion of energy and creativity in charting its future. As the authors take stock of the city's remarkable resources, they build the argument that the wellsprings of New York's continuing prosperity reside not in further regulation, taxation, subsidization, and political intransigence, but rather in the release of market forces as the stimulant to further growth and greater prosperity and opportunity. From the creation of better housing to the streamlining of social services, the lessons proffered in New York Unbound will have implications not only for the future of the world's greatest city, but for every city attempting to grapple with the challenges of the future.Table of ContentsPreface vii About the Authors ix Introduction 1 1 New York Unbound 7 2 New York's Economic Renaissance 30 3 The New New Yorkers 54 4 Getting Around New York 73 5 Clearing the Regulatory Clutter 93 6 Considering Privatization 109 7 Shaping the Face of New York 127 8 A Social Service System to End Dependency 141 9 Making the Schools Work 153 10 Easing the Housing Crisis 170 11 Reforming the Political System 187 12 Looking Backward--and Forward 203 Index 219

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Book SynopsisThis completes Ed Soja's trilogy on urban studies, which began with Postmodern Geographies and continued with Thirdspace. It is the first comprehensive text in the growing field of critical urban studies to deal with the dramatically restructured megacities that have emerged world-wide over the last half of the twentieth-century.Trade Review"Traditional sociological and urban design critiques of the American city have left vacant a wide middle ground of critical enquiry. Between statistical analysis and physical critique, Edward Soja attempts to bridge the divide by proposing a 'third way' for urban studies. The result is a broad overview, ranging between sociological and cultural points of view, with the provocative possibility of pairing the two in a new urban paradigm." Tom Leslie, World Architecture "Coming to the field as a relative novice, I found this book more straightforward and thought provoking than I expected...it is sure to be of interest and value to students and researchers alike." Regional Studies. "Postmetropolis effectively illuminates the rich complexity and multidisciplinary of urban and regional restructuring in the current era... will serve as a useful resource." Journal of Economic and Social Geography. "Postmetropolis is magisterial in its historic sweep" Thomas L. Bell, University of Tennessee.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations x Preface xii Acknowledgments xix Part I Remapping the Geohistory of Cityspace 1 Introduction 3 Outlining the Geohistory of Cityspace 4 Defining the Conceptual Framework 6 The spatial specificity of urbanism 7 The trialectics of cityspace 10 Synekism: the stimulus of urban agglomeration 12 The regionality of cityspace 16 1 Putting Cities First 19 Re-excavating the Origins of Urbanism 19 The conventional sequence: hunting and gathering – agriculture – villages – cities – states 20 A provocative inversion: putting cities first 24 Learning from Jericho 27 Learning from Çatal Hüyük 36 James Mellaart and the urban Neolithic 36 Learning from New Obsidian 42 Learning more from Çatal Hüyük 46 2 The Second Urban Revolution 50 The New Urbanization 51 Space, Knowledge, and Power in Sumeria 55 Ur and the New Urbanism 60 Fast Forward >> to the Third Urban Revolution 67 3 The Third Urban Revolution: Modernity and Urban-industrial Capitalism 71 Cityspace and the Succession of Modernities 72 The Rise of the Modern Industrial Metropolis 76 Made in Manchester 78 Remade in Chicago 84 4 Metropolis in Crisis 95 Rehearsing the Break: the Urban Crisis of the 1960s 95 Manuel Castells and the Urban Question 100 David Harvey’s Social Justice and the City 105 Summarizing the Geohistory of Capitalist Cityspace 109 5 An Introduction to the Conurbation of Greater Los Angeles 117 Los Angeles – from Space: A View from My Window 120 A Perpetual Alternation Between Vision and its Forgetting 121 1870–1900: the WASPing of Los Angeles 123 1900–1920: the Regressive–Progressive Era 127 1920–1940: roaring from war to war 129 1940–1970: the Big Orange explodes 131 Looking back to the future: Los Angeles in 1965 135 1970 and beyond: the New Urbanization 140 Part II Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis 145 Introduction 147 Border Dialogues: Previewing the Postmetropolitan Discourses 147 Conceptualizing the New Urbanization Processes 148 Grounding the Discourses 154 6 The Postfordist Industrial Metropolis: Restructuring the Geopolitical Economy of Urbanism 156 Representative Texts 156 Pathways into Urban Worlds of Production 157 The geographical anatomy of industrial urbanism 157 Production-work-territory: reworking the divisions of labor 160 Manufacturing matters: against postindustrial sociology 164 Crossing industrial divides 166 Post-ford-ism 169 The empowerment of flexibility 171 Getting lean and mean: the surge in inequality 173 Into the regional world: the rediscovery of synekism 175 Localizing Industrial Urbanism 180 Postfordist industrial cartographies 181 Developmental dynamics of the industrial complex 185 Concluding in the realm of public policy 187 7 Cosmopolis: The Globalization of Cityspace 189 Representative Texts 189 Recomposing the Discourse on Globalization 191 The globality of production and the production of globality 192 Regional worlds of globalization 197 New geographies of power 202 Adding culture to the global geopolitical economy 208 The reconstruction of social meaning in the space of flows 212 Globalized neoliberalism: a brief note 216 Metropolis Unbound: Conceptualizing Globalized Cityspace 218 The world city hypothesis 219 Commanding our attention: the rise of global cities 222 Urban dualism, the Informational City and the urban-regional process 227 The turn to cosmopolis 229 8 Exopolis: The Restructuring of Urban Form 233 Representative Texts 233 Metropolis Transformed 234 Megacities and metropolitan galaxies 235 Outer Cities, postsuburbia, and the end of the Metropolis Era 238 Edge Cities and the optimistic envisioning of postmetropolitan geographies 243 City Lite and postmetropolitan nostalgia 246 Simulating the New Urbanism 248 Exopolis as synthesis 250 Representing the Exopolis in Los Angeles 251 Starting in the New Downtown 251 Inner City blues 254 The middle landscape 258 Off-the-edge cities 259 9 Fractal City: Metropolarities and the Restructured Social Mosaic 264 Representative Texts 264 Manufacturing Inequality in the Postmetropolis 266 Normalizing inequality: the extremes at both ends 267 Variations on the theme of intrinsic causality 268 Describing metropolarities: empirical sociologies and labor market dynamics 272 Moving beyond equality politics 279 Remapping the Fractal City of Los Angeles 282 An overview of the ethnic mosaic 283 Mono-ethnic geographies: segregating cityspace 291 Multicultural geographies: mapping diversity 294 10 The Carceral Archipelago: Governing Space in the Postmetropolis 298 Representative Texts 298 Conceptualizing the Carceral Archipelago 299 Fortress L.A. and the rhetoric of social warfare 300 The destruction of public space and the architectonics of security-obsessed urbanism 303 Policing space: doing time in Los Angeles 307 Entering the Forbidden City: the imprisonment of Downtown 309 Homegrown Revolution: HOAs, CIDs, gated communities, and insular lifestyles 312 Beyond the Blade Runner scenario: the spatial restructuring of urban governmentality 319 11 Simcities: Restructuring the Urban Imaginary 323 Representative Texts 323 Re-imagining Cityspace: Travels in Hyperreality 324 Jean Baudrillard and the precession of simulacra 326 Celeste Olalquiaga and postmodern psychasthenia 330 Cyberspace and the electronic generation of hyperreality 333 M. Christine Boyer and the imaginary real world of Cybercities 337 Simcities, Simcitizens, and hyperreality-generated crisis 339 SimAmerica: a concluding critique 345 Part III Lived Space: Rethinking 1992 in Los Angeles 349 Introduction 351 12 LA 1992: Overture to a Conclusion 355 Revisionings 355 Bodies, Cities, Texts: The Case of Citizen Rodney King (by Barbara Hooper) 359 Inscriptions 359 Somatography: the order in place 361 The Trial: Us v. Them 368 13 LA 1992: The Spaces of Representation 372 Event-Geography-Remembering 372 Visible antipodes: Inner versus Outer City 373 Normalized enclosures: the development of common interests 376 The Invisible Riots Remembered 379 Downtowns: this is not the 1960s 379 Pico-Union and the desaparacidos 386 Sa-i-ku and other commemorations 389 A repetitive ending 392 14 Postscript: Critical Reflections on the Postmetropolis 396 New Beginnings I: Postmetropolis in Crisis 396 The downturn of postfordism 397 Too fulsome globalization? 399 Suddenly everywhere is Pomona 401 Repadded white bunkers 402 Deconstructed modes of regulation 403 Simgovernment in crisis 405 New Beginnings II: Struggles for Spatial Justice and Regional Democracy 407 Bibliography 416 Name Index 431 Subject Index 436

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Book SynopsisThis is a previously unpublished work by one of the most important architectural historians of the twentieth century. This previously unpublished work by Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983), one of the twentieth-century's most widely read scholars of art and architectural history, was begun in the mid-1940s. The unfinished manuscript is something of an anomaly in his vast oeuvre of writings in so far as it sought to complement the body of thought emerging in postwar Britain that was concerned with urban design, generally referred to as 'Townscape'. As assembled and annotated here, "Visual Planning and the Picturesque" comprises three parts. The first analyses English planning tradition before 1800. The second surveys English planning theory or, by Pevsner's description, the theory of the picturesque. The third part is essentially a meditation on how this tradition and this theory shaped architecture and urban planning in England in the 19th century and, potentially, the 20th as well. The work as a whole is a surprisingly fresh plea for a visual approach to urban design and common sense in architecture, one that sought to incorporate and mediate rather than idealize and exclude.

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Book SynopsisThis book, the eighth in the Getty Conservation Institute's Readings in Conservation series, fills a significant gap in the published literature on urban conservation. This topic is distinct from both heritage conservation and urban planning, and despite the recent growth of urbanism worldwide, no single volume has presented a comprehensive selection of these important writings until now. This anthology, profusely illustrated throughout, is organised into eight parts, covering such subjects as geographic diversity, reactions to the transformation of traditional cities, reading the historic city, the search for contextual continuities, the search for values and the challenges of sustainability. With more than sixty-five texts, ranging from early polemics by Victor Hugo and John Ruskin to a generous selection of recent scholarship, this book thoroughly addresses regions around the globe. Each reading is introduced by short prefatory remarks explaining the rationale for its selection and the principal matters covered. The book will serve as an easy reference for administrators, professionals, teachers and students faced with the day-to-day challenges confronting the historic city under siege by rampant development.

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Book SynopsisAfter the Second World War, Yugoslavia's small regional cities represented a challenge for the new socialist state. These cities' older buildings, local historic sites, and low-quality housing clashed with socialism's promises and ideals. How would the state transform these cities' everyday neighborhoods? In the Slovene republic's capital city of Ljubljana, the Trnovo neighborhood embodied this challenge through its modest housing, small medieval section, vast gardens, acclaimed interwar architecture, and iconic local reputation. Imagining Slovene Socialist Modernity explores how urban planners, architects, historic preservationists, neighborhood residents, and even folklorists transformed this beloved neighborhood into a Slovene socialist city district. Aplenc demonstrates that this urban redesign centered on republic-level interpretations of a Yugoslav socialist built environment, versus a re-envisioned Slovene national past or design style. This interdisciplinary study sheds light on how Yugoslav state socialism operated at the republic level, within a decentralized system, and on the diverse forces behind success or failure. With its focus on vernacular architecture, small-scale historic sites, single-family homes, and illegal housing, this book expands our understanding of the everyday built environment in socialist cities.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Visions of Upscale Socialist Modernity: "Above-Standard" High-Rises in the Trnovo Neighborhood's Historic Core 2. High Socialism's Promises for Socialist Living: Murgle's Single-Family Homes and the Individual's Paradise 3. Where the Socialist Folk Live: Rakova Jelša's Vernacular but Unsanctioned Architecture Pushes the Boundaries of the Socialist City in High Socialism 4. The Historic District That Wasn't: History Revisited and Jože Plečnik's Eternal Architecture Surpassed Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMindy Thompson Fullilove presents ways to strengthen neighborhood connectivity and empower marginalized communities through investigation of urban segregation from a social heath perspective. "Fullilove passionately demonstrates how, through an urbanity of inclusion, we can heal our fractured cities to make them whole again. What if divided neighborhoods were causing public health problems? What if a new approach to planning and design could tackle both the built environment and collective well-being at the same time? What if cities could help each other? Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, the acclaimed author of Root Shock, uses her unique perspective as a public health psychiatrist to explore and identify ways of healing social and spatial fractures simultaneously. Using the work of French urbanist Michel Cantal-Dupart and the American urban design firm Rothschild Doyno Collaborative as guides as well as urban restoration projects from France and the US as exemplary cases, Fullilove identifies nine tools that can mend our broken cities and reconnect our communities to make them whole.Trade Review"Her [Mindy Fullilove's] baseline concern with the dignity and wisdom of individuals, as well as the absolute necessity of broad-based consensus building, puts her approach on a clear moral high ground to which every urban planner and builder ought to give greater commitment, because it's right and because it works. 'Urban Alchemy' emerges as a book because years of working to counteract the ills of urban destruction have yielded significant successes in the form of insights, relationships, spaces and even, with the help of collaborators, some buildings. Yet Dr. Fullilove's grounding in disciplines outside urban design results in a complex and multivalent work. To some degree, it is a handbook, with a nine-point instruction list for how to improve cities, starting with 'Keep the Whole City in Mind,' continuing through 'Unpuzzle the Fractured Space" and ending with "Celebrate Your Accomplishments.'" -- Charles Rosenblum * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *

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Book SynopsisWith case studies of neighborhood developments from North and South America, Europe, and Africa that span more than forty years. this book offers a seminal treatise on the community based design practices of participatory planning an advocacy architecture. "To transform their good intentions into tangible results in neighborhoods jittery over gentrification, the mayor and his planners should read Building Together: Case Studies in Participatory Planning and Community Building." - Sam Roberts, The New York Times With case studies of neighborhood developments from North and South America, Europe, and Africa that span forty years, Building Together offers a seminal treatise on the community-based design practices of participatory planning and advocacy architecture. The authors describe the challenges, opportunities, and rewards of grassroots collaboration through vivid personal accounts chosen for their practical lessons. Their case studies range in scale from regional urban planning to smaller architectural projects, and geographically from Harlem, Greenpoint, and the greater New York Metropolitan region to sites in coastal Colombia, southern France, and Burkina Faso, Africa. Building Together is designed to appeal to a diverse audience of community development specialists, faculty and students of planning, architecture, community health, and the social sciences, practicing professionals and decision-makers in economic development, and community-based organizations.

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