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Johns Hopkins University Press The Modern Urban Landscape 1880 to the Present
Book SynopsisHe considers the less visible yet pervasive impacts associated with the emergence of electronic technologies and sustainable development.Trade ReviewAn ambitious and intelligent book... Relph takes seriously the ideals and intentions of those who have created the urban landscapes in which most of us now live. He's not written a satire. Still, the story he's telling is heavy with irony. Never in the history of human hopes have so many high-minded men and women worked so hard, and dreamed so passionately, with such dubious results. The National Post Brings together urban history, urban form, public planning history, the literature of utopianism, and the architecture of cities in an intelligent, coherent, lively, and controversial portrayal of the evolution of the physical characteristics of Anglo-American urban environments since 1880. Landscape JournalTable of ContentsPreface to the 2016 EditionPrefaceChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Looking Back at the Future: Late Twentieth-Century Landscapes in the 1890sChapter 3. Old Styles and New Forms in Architecture: 1880–1930Chapter 4. The Invention of Modern Town Planning: 1890–1940Chapter 5. Ordinary Landscapes of the First Machine Age: 1900–40Chapter 6. Modernism and Internationalism in Architecture: 1900–40Chapter 7. Landscapes in an Age of Illusions: 1930 to the Present Chapter 8. Planning the Segregated City: 1945–75Chapter 9. The Corporatisation of Cities 1945–Chapter 10. Modernist and Late-Modernist Architecture: 1945–Chapter 11. Post-Modernism in Planning and Architecture: 1970–Chapter 12. Modernist Cityscapes and Post-Modernist Townscapes Bibliography Index
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James Lorimer & Company Ltd Smart Cities for Canada
Book SynopsisTouted as the key to more livable cities, the "smart cities" approach gets an independent-minded analysis from experts. They point out its strengths, its weaknesses, the agendas at play, and the risks it poses for Canadians.
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GLOBAL PUBLISHER SERVICES DRUID HILLS
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Garden City The First 150 Years Images of America
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History Press Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley
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History Press Staten Island and the VerrazzanoNarrows Bridge
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Building Portlands Memorial Coliseum
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Royal Collins Publishing Company Smart Cities Framework and Practice
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Berlin Contemporary
Book SynopsisFor years following reunification, Berlin was the largest construction site in Europe, with striking new architecture proliferating throughout the city in the 1990s and early 2000s. Among the most visible and the most contested of the new projects were those designed for the national government and its related functions. Berlin Contemporary explores these buildings and plans, tracing their antecedents while also situating their iconic forms and influential designers within the spectacular world of global contemporary architecture. Close studies of these sites, including the Reichstag, the Chancellery, and the reconstruction of the Berlin Stadtschloss (now known as the Humboldt Forum), demonstrate the complexity of Berlin's political and architectural rebuildingand reveal the intricate historical negotiations that architecture was summoned to perform.Trade Review“Walker writes about contemporary architecture not as a critic but as a sharp-eyed, thought-provoking historian. Berlin Contemporary is a meticulously researched book that raises the bar for the study of recent urbanism; Walker’s luscious, flowing prose makes for effortless reading, despite the seriousness of the subject. A formidable achievement.” * Carla Yanni, Distinguished Professor of Art History, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA *“A deeply researched book on a city that has, in the course of its reconstruction, arguably become the cultural capital of Europe, Berlin Contemporary grapples with issues of architecture, politics, the public sphere, and memory that have implications for cities around the world.” * Elizabeth Otto, Professor of Modern & Contemporary Art History, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA *“The words ‘Reunification of Germany’ seem to indicate a singular event. In reality, it is hardly a done deal even today. Approaching the topic in a way that is both sensitive and provocative, Walker’s book, interblending history and criticism, helps us see how architecture operates within complex political, geo-political, and cultural environments.” * Mark Jarzombek, Professor of the History & Theory of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Berlin, the Contemporary Capital Chapter 1: Bridging and Breaking—Master Planning the Spreebogen Chapter 2: The Reichstag’s New Lightness of Being Chapter 3: Monumental Modernism—The Chancellery as Future Ruin Chapter 4: Palaces of Doubt Conclusion: No One Intends to Open an Airport
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Vehicule Press A View from the Porch: Rethinking Home and
Book SynopsisThis is the latest updated book from "Canada’s housing guru" about how design affects our daily livesThis illuminating collection of 22 essays expounds upon the points where design touches life. The essays discuss the big and small things that make us appreciate, or become disconnected from, our homes and neighborhoods. Drawing on his experiences as an architect, planner, world traveler, and educator, Avi Friedman delves into issues such as the North American obsession with monster homes, the impact of scale on the feeling of comfort in our communities, environmental concerns such as deforestation, innovative recycling methods in building materials, the booming do-it-yourself industry, the decline of craftsmanship, and the role of good design in bringing families together. Written with Friedman’s trademark flair, A View from the Porch offers a compelling vision of the influence of design in our everyday lives from one of the world’s most innovative thinkers. With new material, this is a completely revised edition of Room for Thought, originally published in 2005.
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Pelican Publishing Co Majesty of the French Quarter, The
Book SynopsisBrings the majesty of the French Quarter to life in a luxurious parade of pictures and prose. Fabulous hotels, churches, fine restaurants, antique shops, and art galleries line the streets of the Quarter. But some of the most fascinating architecture--that of private residences--has never been photographed until now.
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Michigan State University Press Cleveland Architecture 1890-1930: Building the
Book SynopsisThis study looks at the architectural transformation of Cleveland during its “golden age” - roughly the period between post–Civil War reconstruction and World War I.By the early twentieth century, Cleveland, which would evolve into the fifth largest city in America, hoped to shed the gritty industrial image of its rapid-growth period and evolve into a city to match the political clout of its statesmen like John Hay and wealth of its business elites such as John D. Rockefeller.Encouraged by the spectacle and public response to the Beaux-Arts buildings of the Chicago World’s Exposition of 1893, the city embarked upon a grand scheme to construct new governmental and civic structures known as the Cleveland Plan of Grouping Public Buildings, one of the earliest and most complete City Beautiful planning schemes in the country.The success of this plan led to a spillover effect that prompted architects to design all manner of new public buildings with similar Beaux-Arts stylistic characteristics during the next three decades. With the group plan realized, civic leaders - with the goal of expanding the city’s cultural institutions to match the distinction of its civic centre - established its counterpart in University Circle, creating a secondary group plan, the first cultural centre in the country.
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Actar Publishers Plug-Ins: Design for City Making in Barcelona
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Actar Publishers The Innovative Urban Workplace: Designing for the
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Actar Publishers New York Global: Critical Writings and Proposals:
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Actar D Revitalizing Japan
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University of Arkansas Press Interpreting Kigali, Rwanda: Architectural
Book SynopsisRwanda, less than a generation removed from the 1994 Genocide, is experiencing a period of economic ascent and population growth. Its capital city, Kigali, is expected to triple in size within a generation, and positioned to become a premiere hub of commerce in central and eastern Africa.Amidst this optimism, however, is limited land and material resources. Food security is in tension with environmental concerns, and government aspirations are often in friction with daily, individual struggles for subsistence.Interpreting Kigali, Rwanda explores the pressing challenges and opportunities to be found in planning, designing, and constructing a healthy, equitable, and sustainable city. Asking “what is an authentic-yet-modern, prosperous-yet-feasible African city, Rwandan city?” Smith, Berlanda, and colleagues conducted research on Rwandan activities of daily living and how these routines are connected to space-making practices and the Kinyarwanda terms that describe them.Through a culturally informed view of urban and rural lifestyles and spaces, Interpreting Kigali, Rwanda presents principles and proposals for neighborhood development in the challenging context of Kigali’s informal settlements. With one billion people living in informal settlements worldwide, a number expected to double by 2030, the lessons learned in Rwanda provide a complex, fascinating, and urgent study for scholars and practitioners across disciplines and around the world.
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Avenues of Translation: The City in Iberian and
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award — Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed, voices meet, and artistic traditions find their counterparts. Using the Latin word for “translation,” translatio, or “to carry across,” as a point of departure, Avenues of Translation explores how translation perpetuates, diversifies, deepens, and expands the literary production of cities in their greater cultural context, and how translation shapes an understanding of and access to a city's past and present literary and cultural practices. Thinking about translation and the city is a way to tell the backstories of the cities, texts, and authors that are united by acts of translation. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Table of Contents Prologue: The City and the Translator by Suzanne Jill Levine Introduction: Translation and the City by Regina Galasso and Evelyn Scaramella 1 Un Walker en Nuyol: Coming to Terms with a Babel of Words by Ilan Stavans 2 Translation as a Native Language: The Layered Languages of Tango by Alicia Borinsky 3 Lorca, From Country to City: Three Versions of Poet in New York by Christopher Maurer 4 “Here Is My Monument”: Translation, Urban Space, and Martín Luis Guzmán’s Memorias de Pancho Villa by Nicholas Cifuentes Goodbody 5 On Languages and Cities: Rethinking the Politics of Calvert Casey’s “El regreso” by Charles Hatfield 6 A Palimpsestuous Adaptation: Translating Barcelona in Benet i Jornet's La plaça del Diamant by Jennifer Duprey 7 Montreal's New Latinité: Spanish-French Connections in a Trilingual City by Hugh Hazelton 8 Translating the Local: New York’s Micro-Cosmopolitan Media, from José Martí to the Hyperlocal Hub by Esther Allen 9 “litORAL translation TRADUCCIÓN LIToral” by Urayoán Noel 10 Coda: The City of the Translator’s Mind by Peter Bush Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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Experiment SHRINK THE CITY
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Black Dog Press Place and Home: The Search for Better Housing/PRP
Book SynopsisPRP is one of the most successful housing practices in the world. Peter Phippen, Peter Randall and David Parkes founded the practice in 1963, and since then have moved forward from their Modernist beginnings, evidenced in the post-Second World War housing boom to the diverse concerns of the twenty-first century - creating hospice care and sheltered housing for the elderly and infirm, as well as accommodating the need for sustainable, low-energy, zero-carbon developments. "Place & Home: The Search for Better Housing" comprises essays by Phippen, Randall and Parkes, Barry Munday and Chris Rudolph on PRP's past and current work, as well as texts by commissioned writers on the topics of 'place', 'building technology' and 'home' in architecture. These are interspersed with illustrated case studies of PRP's work with housing associations, local authorities and private developers, in diverse locations including Moscow, La Grande Motte, Milton Keynes, Manchester, and Brixton - the latter of which Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, considers "sets the standard for what we should be achieving in every social housing development in London".
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Dublin City Public Libraries 'Exercise of Authority': Surveyor Thomas Owen and
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Dublin City Public Libraries 'Exercise of Authority': Surveyor Thomas Owen and
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ActarD Inc Re-living the City: UABB 2015 Catalogue
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Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Limited Fluvial Metropolis: Past Visions/Future
Book SynopsisHyperirrealism is a merger of the disciplines of science and art for research in architecture. Hyperirrealism embodies architecture design that blends architecture, sculpture, digital imaging, mathematics and aesthetics simultaneously. Hyperirrealism is in pursuit of paired antagonistic concepts such as simplicity and complexity, systemic and random order, order and chaos, for generation of 21st Century Architecture.
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Radical Atlas of Ferguson USA
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Rutgers University Press Becoming Philadelphia: How an Old American City
Book SynopsisOnce dismissed as a rusting industrial has-been—the “Next Detroit”—Philadelphia has enjoyed an astonishing comeback in the 21st century. Over the past two decades, Inga Saffron has served as the premier chronicler of the city’s physical transformation as it emerged from a half century of decline. Through her Pulitzer Prize-winning columns on architecture and urbanism in the Philadelphia Inquirer, she has tracked the city’s revival on a weekly basis.Becoming Philadelphia collects the best of Saffron’s work, plus a new introduction reflecting on the stunning changes the city has undergone. A fearless crusader who is also a seasoned reporter, Saffron ranges beyond the usual boundaries of architectural criticism to explore how big money and politics intersect with design, profoundly shaping our everyday experience of city life. Even as she celebrates Philadelphia’s resurgence, she considers how it finds itself grappling with the problems of success: gentrification, poverty, privatization, and the unequal distribution of public services. What emerges in these 80 pieces is a remarkable narrative of a remarkable time. The proverbial first draft of history, these columns tell the story of how a great city shape-shifted before our very eyes.Trade Review"The dozens of columns in this essential collection illustrate the myriad ways Saffron's inability to accept business as usual have shaped her criticism and, ultimately, 21st century Philadelphia. From eviscerating mega-developments to decrying parking lots, Saffron makes clear that her first loyalty is to the people of Philadelphia and not the out-of-towers that successive mayors believed were more crucial to the city's success." -- Alexandra Lange * architecture and design critic *"With penetrating insight and biting wit, Inga Saffron’s critiques leap off the page. In this collection, they take on even greater force, illuminating the revival of a historic American city and offering lessons about the use—and misuse—of power and planning that apply to all cities." -- Blair Kamin * architecture critic, Chicago Tribune *"Architecture critic, investigative journalist, historian, urbanist, humanist, public citizen, Saffron wears all of these hats, she wears them comfortably, and her highly detailed and opinionated columns are fascinating and satisfying to read." * Artblog *"If you, like me, are not intimately familiar with Philadelphia, you might wonder how engaged you can become in a discussion of urbanism rooted in a single city. Very engaged, it turns out. Jane Jacobs used her neighborhood in lower Manhattan as the starting point for The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Similarly, Saffron has constructed a Philadelphia story that reverberates far beyond the city limits." * Rein Reports *"Philly has become a thriving town because it built on old foundations, valuing history and investing in downtown. It cherishes the little niceties that bring people here. And a series of smart policy decisions has now helped burnish this town’s rep. That’s the tale Inga Saffron tells us in Becoming Philadelphia. More than an appraiser of buildings, she is a chronicler of the ill-advised, idiotic, humane, and beautiful. * Philadelphia Inquirer *"I was impressed, and moved, by the heart in these articles, and I look forward to reading more columns in this humanistic vein as we reimagine what kind of city Philadelphia should become in the future." * Hidden City Philadelphia *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Chapter One: Suburbanizing the City Chapter Two: The Architecture of Revival Chapter Three: Sweating the Small Stuff Chapter Four: Age of the Mega-Projects Chapter Five: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back Chapter Six: Rebuilding Chapter Seven: The Spaces between the Buildings Chapter Eight: Building the Equitable City Chapter Nine: Getting Around Town Chapter Ten: Success and its Discontents Index
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Rutgers University Press East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte
Book SynopsisEast of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries, from eighteenth-century Spanish colonization to twenty-first century globalization. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte, showing how interdisciplinary and community-engaged scholarship can break new ground in public history. East of East tells stories that have been excluded from dominant historical narratives—stories that long survived only in the popular memory of residents, as well as narratives that have been almost completely buried and all but forgotten. Its cast of characters includes white vigilantes, Mexican anarchists, Japanese farmers, labor organizers, civil rights pioneers, and punk rockers, as well as the ordinary and unnamed youth who generated a vibrant local culture at dances and dive bars. Trade Review"Richly layered and movingly felt, East of East is a collaborative history of a seemingly ordinary place revealed as a crossroads of the local and the global. A remarkable interleaving of scholarship and the intimacy of memory." -- D.J. Waldie * author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir *"East of East makes several important interventions. First, it is part of an exciting movement to reclaim the histories and geographies of cities from the bottom up. Second, it focuses on a vital but completely overlooked part of LA history - El Monte. Essential reading for all those interested in southern California." -- Laura Pulido * co-Author of, A People’s Guide to Los Angeles *"Welcoming Boom’s New Editorial Team" mention of East of East https://boomcalifornia.com/2019/08/07/welcoming-booms-new-editorial-team/ * Boom California *"Who owns history? New book reconsiders San Gabriel Valley’s pioneer past," Greater LA hosted by Steve Chiotakis https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/lausd-police-el-monte/sgv-el-monte-history-book * "Greater LA," KCRW *“East of East digs up the dirt of greater El Monte to find what is left of ‘us’ — for the authors and contributors born and raised there, and for the Indigenous, immigrant, multiracial, multicultural and transnational communities brought to vivid life in these pages. It writes ‘us’ back into the narratives that erased us and writes new ones to remind us that white pioneer settlers are just part of the story, not the center of it.” * KCET.org *"San Gabriel Mission fire provokes deep, conflicting reactions," by Gustavo Arellano https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-13/san-gabriel-mission-fire-morning-mass * Los Angeles Times *"For 100 Years, El Monte Has Celebrated a Blatant Historical Falsehood. Why? A Southern California City Has a Rich, Multi-Ethnic Past That Its Foundational Myth Erases," by Romeo Guzmán https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2020/08/19/el-monte-end-of-the-santa-fe-trail-true-history/ideas/essay/ * Zócalo Public Square *"The editors of East of East see deeper truths. Greater El Monte, it turns out, is the setting for a story as rich and tangled as the flora that still covers the Whittier Narrows Recreation Area, a patch of parkland that lies, relatively unspoiled, in the watershed the El Montes call home." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"How Authors Are Reaching Book Lovers in the Age of COVID-19," by Teena Apeles https://www.kcet.org/shows/southland-sessions/how-authors-are-reaching-book-lovers-in-the-age-of-covid-19 * KCET.org *"Your history-buff friends all want this magical book for Christmas." * The Press-Enterprise *"Best of all, East of East is both chronicle and challenge to all of us: Know your local history, document it and spread its gospel to the world, no matter how seemingly small." * Los Angeles Times *"Combining creative nonfiction, oral history, and traditional scholarship, the various writings here reclaim the histories and geographies of the urban fringe these writers call 'east of east.' What makes this area so significant is that it’s been a point of 'contact between farmworkers, punks, white supremacists, suburbanites, Zumba dancers, and civil rights activists.'” * L.A. Taco *"Scholars and regular people will find something to enjoy in East of East. Tourists and Locals alike will have a refreshingly informed understanding next time they go cruising through the streets of Aztlán and find themselves on Durfee in El Monte, remembering novelist Salvador Plascencia’s description of Durfee Avenue. What a great gift, or textbook. East of East is scholarship done right. Órale to the publishers and especially lead editors Romeo Guzmán and Carribean Fragoza." * La Bloga *"The 10 best California books of 2020: Featuring 32 essays by writers including Alex Espinoza, Salvador Plascencia and Fragoza, this anthology seeks to restore the 'silenced histories' of El Monte, the small working-class city in eastern Los Angeles County, while also re-imagining its future as a community in its own right. 'The future will not happen in the cities or the suburbs,' the editors write, 'but in the middle, and El Monte and South El Monte have always been in the middle.'" * Los Angeles Times, The 10 best California books of 2020 *"It can and should be an inspiration for likeminded collaborative and multi-disciplinary projects seeking to redress the many wrongs of exclusive historical memory. As stated in the epilogue, localized areas like greater El Monte are often active in national and transnational operations of many kinds 'in broader networks of trade, work, kinship, culture and migration.' This book provides a solid grounding in better understanding these interrelationships, even as 'the rest of its stories have yet to be told.'" * The Public Historian *"A tale of two cities: El Monte’s battle to preserve its Latinx history," by Erik Adams * University Times *"Ethnic Studies Comes Into The Classroom And Onto The Streets," by Julia Barajas * LAist *Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Burn the Wagon: Finding Silenced Histories, Lost Intersections, and Radical Possibilities in Greater El MonteRomeo Guzmán, Carribean Fragoza, Alex Sayf Cummings, and Ryan Reft Part I Origins and Departures1 The Tongva PeopleAurelie Roy2 Toypurina: A Legend Etched in the LandscapeMaria John3 From Alta California to American Statehood: Race, Change, and the Californio Pico FamilyRyan Reft4 Here Come the El Monte Boys: Vigilante Justice and Lynch Mobs in Nineteenth Century El MonteKaren Wilson and Dan Lynch Part II Social and Political Movements 5 Rise, Fall, Repeat: El Monte’s White Supremacy MovementsDaniel Cady6 Ricardo Flores Magón and Anarchist Movement in El MonteYesenia Barragan and Mark Bray7 Bitter Fruit: The El Monte Berry Strike of 1933Melquiades Fernandez8 Schools for All: The Desegregation Campaign in El MonteRachel Newman9 City of Achievement: The Making of the City of South El Monte, 1955-1976Nick Juravich10 La Lucha Continua! Gloria Arellanes and the Women of the Chicano MovementJuan Herrera11 Toward a Radical Arts Practice: Theater and Muralism during the Chicano MovementCarribean Fragoza12 American Dreams and Immigrant Realities in a South El Monte Shoe FactoryAdam Goodman13 Dreams of Escape and Belonging: The Making of Asian El MonteAlex Sayf Cummings Part IIINature and the Built Environment14 Hicks Camp: A Mexican BarrioDaniel Morales15 Life at Marrano Beach: The Lost Barrio Beach of Los AngelesDaniel Medina16 From Small Farming to Urban Agriculture: El Monte Subsistence HomesteadingRyan Reft17 A Community Erased: Japanese Americans in El Monte and the Greater SGVAndre Kobayashi Deckrow18 Whittier Narrows Park: A Story of Water, Power, and DisplacementDavid Reid19 Transportational El Monte, From the Red Car to the FreewayRyan Reft20 The Starlite Swap MeetJennifer Renteria Part IVPopular Culture21 El Monte’s Wild Past: A History of Gay’s Lion FarmMichael Weller22 Memories of El Monte: Art Laboe’s Charmed Life on the AirJude Webre23 El Monte’s Wildweed: Biraciality and the Punk Ethos of The Gun Club’s Jeffrey Lee PierceTroy Andreas Araiza Kokinis24 The Punk and the SeamstressApolonio Morales25 A Gay Bar, Some Familia, and Latina Butch-Femme: Rounding out the Eastside Circle at El Monte’s Sugar ShackStacy I. Macías26 All the Zumba Ladies: Reclaiming Bodies and Space through Serious Booty-ShakingCarribean Fragoza Part V Literary Cartographies27 1181 Durfee Avenue: 1983 to 1986Michael Jaime-Becerra28 Train versus Pedestrian on Valley BoulevardAlex Espinoza29 Epiphany Catholic ChurchToni Margarita Plummer30 Rush StreetCarribean Fragoza31 Durfee AvenueSalvador PlascenciaEpilogue: East of East: Suburban Cosmopolitanism in the San Gabriel ValleyWendy Cheng AcknowledgmentsSelected BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex
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Les Belles Lettres Masdar
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Klincksieck Franck Lloyd Wright & Lewis Mumford: Trente ANS
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Brepols N.V. Early Modern Urbanism and the Grid: Town Planning
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Bohlau Verlag Romantische Urbanitat: Transdisziplinare
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Harrassowitz Marmor - Masse - Monumente: Vorfertigung,
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Dietrich Reimer Theoretikerinnen Des Stadtebaus: Texte Und
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH The Making of the 20th Century City: Towards a
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unternehmen Hamburg: Eine Geschichte Der
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Campus Verlag Vertical Europe – The Sociology of High–Rise
Book SynopsisMore high-rise residential buildings have been built in the last two decades than at any other time before. Even in Europe, where historically a typical city’s most prominent vertical accents came from chimneys and church steeples, towering buildings are increasingly shaping the urban landscape. In Vertical Europe, Andrea Glauser looks at new architectural trends in London, Paris, and Vienna, as well as the promises, desires, and fears associated with them in the minds of these cities’ residents. Her book is the first full-length sociological examination of the recent skyward growth in urban Europe, bringing together debates on high-rise architecture from fields including urban planning, geography, and art history. She contextualizes this vertical construction as an area wrought with tensions between these European cities’ desire to keep pace with global competition while still retaining the specific architectural qualities that have defined them for centuries.
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Gebruder Mann Verlag Klimatische Stadtplanung Statt Grunkosmetik: 50
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Lexxion Planungs- Und Zulassungsverfahren Nach Dem
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Park Books Glatt! From Suburb to City?
Book SynopsisIn summer 2012, Architects Group Krokodil, a group of Zurich-based architects from various firms with a special interest in urban planning, published the book Glatt! Manifest fur eine Stadt im Werden. This manifesto for a bold vision of future urban development of the Glatt valley, a suburban region north-east of Zurich, has been widely reviewed in the professional and public media in Switzerland and Gemany. Based on this book, participants of the 2012 International Summer Academy Zurich, staged by ETH Zurich and Architects Group Krokodil, focused their work on projects and visions for the Glatt valley area. Studio work of the students from 33 countries was complemented by evening lectures on specific subjects and aspects and also critically discussed. 'Glatt! From Suburb to City?' presents the results of the 2012 International Summer Academy. It comprises an overview of the lecture series and in the second part documents the studio work created during the course. An encyclopaedia on the topic rounds out the new book.
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Park Books Village in the City – Asian Variations of
Book Synopsis'Village in the City' investigates an equally specific and spectacular urbanisation process that many regions in China have been undergoing during the past two decades. The massive scale and the unprecedented speed of this process imply an incredible multiplicity of 'villages in the city'. As such there are as many counter figures as there are "regular" and "normalised" urban environments that engulf these villages. Village in the City opens a window on recent research on the dynamic transformation processes villages in China are undergoing to become (parts of) cities, and contextualises this specific contemporary Chinese phenomenon in a comparative perspective for all of Asia, i.e. including India, South East Asia, and China. And it situates this development also in the history of urbanisms of inclusion.
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Koc University Press The Construction of a New City – Ankara 1923–1933
Book SynopsisExamines the first decade after the establishment of Ankara as the capital of Turkey, from the proclamation of the Turkish Republic in 1923 until 1933. With a particular focus on the recently developed Yeni Şehir (“new city”) district of Ankara, Ali Cengizkan and N. Müge Cengizkan chronicle the construction of a new city center in war-torn Turkey in the first quarter of the twentieth century. The authors fill critical gaps in the historiography of the city by sharing the ideas and experiences of its dwellers, exploring the social dynamics of the dissolution of the planned environment, and analyzing the causes and effects of modernization.Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS7 FOREWORD Ömer M. Koç9 PRESENTATION Filiz Yenisehirlioglu11 A FEW REMARKS ON THE METHOD AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSAli Cengizkan, Müge Cengizkan19 THE POSTCARDS THAT NEVER EXISTED PANORAMAS 37 THE MARCH OF ANKARA: TRACING THE NEW CITY IN H KIMIYET-I MILLIYEÖmer Türkoglu51 “NEO-OTTOMAN ARCHITECTURE”, A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO THE FOUNDATION OF ANKARA AS A CAPITAL AND REFLECTIONS ON ROMANTICISM Günkut Akin79 THE FIRST OWNERS AND FIRST RESIDENTS OF YENISEHIRYener Bas125 DWELLING IN THE OLD TOWN: “ASSEMBLED HOUSES” AND WOODEN “SHEDS” Ali Cengizkan143 THE EMERGENCE OF YENISEHIR: TENSIONS IN HOUSING CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDING THE CITY WITH HOUSING Ali Cengizkan153 NEW HOUSING: THE DETERMINATION OF THE NEW LIFE WITH THE NEW SOCIETY Ali Cengizkan179 AFTERWORD: LOOKING BACK AND THINKING, BUT NOT FALLING INTO NOSTALGIA Ali Cengizkan CROSS-SECTIONS 185 CONSTRUCTING THE MODERN YENISEHIR 211 MODERNIZING THE OLD CITY 235 NEW HOUSING 249 PUBLIC MODERNIZATION263 NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY275 PEOPLE OF THE CITY289 CREATING THE CULTURE OF THE CITY AND THE PARKS313 CREATING THE CULTURE OF REMEMBRANCE321 PANORAMAS SNAP SHOTS: CITY RESIDENTS Ali Cengizkan340 HALIDE EDIP ADIVAR 342 JACQUES NESSIM AGGIMAN 344 ORHAN ALSAÇ 346 GAZI MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATÜRK 350 FALIH RIFKI ATAY 353 MITHAT AYDIN 356 MEHMET ALI BAGANA 359 CELAL BAYAR 361 JOSEPH BRIX 363 RECEP CENGIZKAN 366 ERNST ARNOLD EGLI372 GRACE ELLISON 379 CLAUDE FARRERE 382 ANTON HANAK 384 CLEMENS HOLZMEISTER 388 WERNER ISSEL 391 AFET INAN 394 HERMANN JANSEN 398 LEON JAUSSELY 401 YAKUP KADRI KARAOSMANOGLU 405 ZIYA KOCAINAN 407 VEHBI KOÇ 411 ERZURUMLU NAFIZ KOTAN 414 ARIF HIKMET KOYUNOGLU 422 CARL CHRISTOPH LÖRCHER 428 ERNST MAMBOURY 430 MIMAR KEMALETTIN 441 GIULIO MONGERI 444 MUSTAFA NECATI [UGURAL] 446 MEHMET NIHAT NIGISBERK 452 ROBERT OERLEY 456 ABDÜLHALIK RENDA 461 NECMETTIN SAHIR SILAN 463 NEVZAT TANDOGAN 466 AHMET HAMDI TANPINAR 471 MUKBIL KEMAL TAS 476 VEDAT TEK 480 SAKIR ZÜMRE 482 CONTRIBUTORS
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Aarhus University Press Town Plans in Place & Time: Extension Planning &
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Kapon Editions Astikés Geographíes: Topía kai Kathemerinés
Book SynopsisThis book explores the social construction of relationship between commuting (everyday mobility) and urban landscape, from ecological, social and psychological perspectives. It combines different concepts like: "urban eco-landscape", "soundscape" (urban geography, social anthropology, cultural studies, landscape and soundscape ecology, remote sensing) and "identity of mobility" (sociology, environmental and social psychology). The research took place in different cities and peripheries in Greece, France, Mexico and India. The book offers a methodology for landscape research and not another theory about landscape studies. It is aimed at a wide readership and especially for students and researchers in the social sciences (geography, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies), in architecture and in urban and regional planning. In a world which proclaims the protection of landscape, it required us to ponder the question: what is it we wish to protect: the history, the memory, the culture, the ecosystem, the landscape as common or as commodity? In a world which also declares the idea of increasing commuting as a characteristic of social improvement another question arises: how was this idea constructed, whom does it really benefit? How were the places of exclusion constructed by means of isolation from auto-mobility and through the construction of a controversial model of equating a slow pace of movement with so-called 'underdevelopment'? Finally, the definitions of the landscape (whether they come from a common everyday use of the term or from a model derived from the social or natural sciences, which are perceived as objective representations) demonstrate on a daily basis a reconstruction related to socially and culturally constructed positions and perceptions one already has about several concepts in everyday life. 112 illus, 100+ colour. Text in Greek
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NUS Press Las Vegas in Singapore: Violence, Progress and
Book SynopsisLas Vegas is famous for its glitter and greed, but it rarely gets the recognition it deserves for another specialty: inventing a globalized corporate model of institutional control. For decades, the gambling mecca has perfected the concept of the casino-hotel, which has been exported to countries around the world, including Singapore with the opening of the Marina Bay Sands. When this luxury resort opened in 2010, it was the convergence of two cities' very different histories of gambling.Las Vegas in Singapore looks at moments in Singapore's and Las Vegas' pasts when the moral and legal status of gambling changed significantly, and examines how modern states and corporations capitalized on it. The book begins in colonial Singapore in the 1880s, when British administrators revised the law in response to the political threat posed by Chinese-run gambling syndicates. It then looks at the 1960s when the newly independent city-state created a national lottery while at the same time criminalizing both organized and petty gambling. From there the focus moves to corporate Las Vegas in the 1950s. The book reveals how the Las Vegas model of casino development evolved into a highly rationalized template designed to maximize profits. It all comes together when the Vegas model is architecturally re-fashioned into Singapore's Marina Bay Sands.Ultimately, Lee Kah-Wee argues that the historical project of the control of vice is also about the control of space and capital. The result is an uneven landscape where the legal and moral status of gambling is contingent on where it is located. As the current wave of casino expansion spreads across Asia, he warns that these developments should not be seen as liberalization but instead as a monopolization by modern states and corporations.
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