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Book SynopsisOf the thirty miles of Lake Michigan shoreline within the city limits of Chicago, twenty-four miles is public park land. The crown jewels of its park system, the lakefront parks bewitch natives and visitors alike with their brisk winds, shady trees, sandy beaches, and rolling waves. Like most good things, the protection of the lakefront parks didn't come easy, and this book chronicles the hard-fought and never-ending battles Chicago citizens have waged to keep them forever open, clear, and free.Illustrated with historic and contemporary photographs, Wille's book tells how Chicago's lakefront has survived a century of development. The story serves as a warning to anyone who thinks the struggle for the lakefront is over, or who takes for granted the beauty of its public beaches and parks. A thoroughly fascinating and well-documented narrative which draws the reader into the sights, smells and sounds of Chicago's story. . . . Everyone who cares about the development of land and its conservation will benefit from reading Miss Wille's book.Daniel J. Shannon, Architectural ForumNot only good reading, it is also a splendid example of how to equip concerned citizens for their necessary participation in the politics of planning and a more livable environment.Library Journal

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Book SynopsisOf the thirty miles of Lake Michigan shoreline within the city limits of Chicago, twenty-four miles is public park land. The crown jewels of its park system, the lakefront parks bewitch natives and visitors alike with their brisk winds, shady trees, sandy beaches, and rolling waves. Like most good things, the protection of the lakefront parks didn't come easy, and this book chronicles the hard-fought and never-ending battles Chicago citizens have waged to keep them forever open, clear, and free.Illustrated with historic and contemporary photographs, Wille's book tells how Chicago's lakefront has survived a century of development. The story serves as a warning to anyone who thinks the struggle for the lakefront is over, or who takes for granted the beauty of its public beaches and parks. A thoroughly fascinating and well-documented narrative which draws the reader into the sights, smells and sounds of Chicago's story. . . . Everyone who cares about the development of land and its conservation will benefit from reading Miss Wille's book.Daniel J. Shannon, Architectural ForumNot only good reading, it is also a splendid example of how to equip concerned citizens for their necessary participation in the politics of planning and a more livable environment.Library Journal

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Book SynopsisThis book identifies the constellation of factors that allow certain urban places to become “emerging global cities”—centers of commerce, finance, art, and culture for entire regions. It traces the transformations of Dubai, Miami, and Singapore, identifying key features common to these cities.Trade ReviewEmerging Global Cities sets a new standard for the comparative study of cities. Combining historical analysis, political economy, demography, and institutional analysis with a deep understanding of the global division of economic labor, the authors produce a set of gripping profiles of the successful, the also-rans, and the precarious, and place them all in a compelling theoretical framework. -- Paul DiMaggio, New York UniversityEmerging Global Cities examines the processes of globalization from below through distinct yet potentially generalizable historical sequences. Portes and Armony explain how and why some cities in the developing periphery have managed to rise from positions of inferiority and insignificance to become leading players in the global economy. This book will soon become a benchmark for the study of global cities and a new classic for urban studies, development studies, and economic sociology. -- Min Zhou, University of California, Los AngelesPortes and Armony offer us an exceptionally compelling and deeply perceptive rendering of twenty-first-century entrepôt cities—emergent urban centers driven and contoured by flows of people, ideas, money, and power. The conceptual tools they give us to understand how and why cities from Lagos to São Paulo to Miami are redrawing the global political map and charting our ecological future are indispensable for anyone interested in the rise and fall of cities and the flourishing of urban life. -- Natasha Iskander, New York UniversityEmerging Global Cities breaks new ground by bringing together into one comparative study a set of emerging global cities (and hopefuls) to explain how the global capitalist system is devolving power to new regional hubs. Portes and Armony bring new perspectives—on climate change, poverty, and inequality, for example—to bear in their study, with great attention to class and ethnic structures in these cities. -- James F. Hollifield, Ora Nixon Arnold Professor of International Political Economy, SMUA useful introduction for advanced students of urban studies. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I1. The Role of Cities in the Capitalist Economy: An Overview2. Dubai: From Marginal Gulf Town to Regional Hub, by Rana Tomaira3. Miami: From Winter Resort to Hemispheric Capital, with the collaboration of Brandon P. Martinez4. Singapore: From Fishing Village to World-Class Metropolis, with the collaboration of Larry LiuPart II5. Global Hopefuls: An Overview6. New Orleans: A Century of Decline, with the collaboration of Larry Liu7. São Paulo: Brazil’s Always-Aspiring City, with the collaboration of Rosa Hassan De Ferrari and Anthony Ocepek8. Lagos: Africa’s New Dubai?, with the collaboration of Rosa Hassan De Ferrari and Anthony OcepekPart III9. Hong Kong: A Threatened Global City, by Larry LiuConclusion: Theoretical Implications, Climate Change, and Future ChallengesNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book identifies the constellation of factors that allow certain urban places to become “emerging global cities”—centers of commerce, finance, art, and culture for entire regions. It traces the transformations of Dubai, Miami, and Singapore, identifying key features common to these cities.Trade ReviewEmerging Global Cities sets a new standard for the comparative study of cities. Combining historical analysis, political economy, demography, and institutional analysis with a deep understanding of the global division of economic labor, the authors produce a set of gripping profiles of the successful, the also-rans, and the precarious, and place them all in a compelling theoretical framework. -- Paul DiMaggio, New York UniversityEmerging Global Cities examines the processes of globalization from below through distinct yet potentially generalizable historical sequences. Portes and Armony explain how and why some cities in the developing periphery have managed to rise from positions of inferiority and insignificance to become leading players in the global economy. This book will soon become a benchmark for the study of global cities and a new classic for urban studies, development studies, and economic sociology. -- Min Zhou, University of California, Los AngelesPortes and Armony offer us an exceptionally compelling and deeply perceptive rendering of twenty-first-century entrepôt cities—emergent urban centers driven and contoured by flows of people, ideas, money, and power. The conceptual tools they give us to understand how and why cities from Lagos to São Paulo to Miami are redrawing the global political map and charting our ecological future are indispensable for anyone interested in the rise and fall of cities and the flourishing of urban life. -- Natasha Iskander, New York UniversityEmerging Global Cities breaks new ground by bringing together into one comparative study a set of emerging global cities (and hopefuls) to explain how the global capitalist system is devolving power to new regional hubs. Portes and Armony bring new perspectives—on climate change, poverty, and inequality, for example—to bear in their study, with great attention to class and ethnic structures in these cities. -- James F. Hollifield, Ora Nixon Arnold Professor of International Political Economy, SMUA useful introduction for advanced students of urban studies. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I1. The Role of Cities in the Capitalist Economy: An Overview2. Dubai: From Marginal Gulf Town to Regional Hub, by Rana Tomaira3. Miami: From Winter Resort to Hemispheric Capital, with the collaboration of Brandon P. Martinez4. Singapore: From Fishing Village to World-Class Metropolis, with the collaboration of Larry LiuPart II5. Global Hopefuls: An Overview6. New Orleans: A Century of Decline, with the collaboration of Larry Liu7. São Paulo: Brazil’s Always-Aspiring City, with the collaboration of Rosa Hassan De Ferrari and Anthony Ocepek8. Lagos: Africa’s New Dubai?, with the collaboration of Rosa Hassan De Ferrari and Anthony OcepekPart III9. Hong Kong: A Threatened Global City, by Larry LiuConclusion: Theoretical Implications, Climate Change, and Future ChallengesNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisRichard Hu unpacks recent trends in urban planning and development to explore the making and imagining of the contemporary Chinese city.Trade ReviewThe path from small, poor villages dotting a vast desolate Asian hinterland to the world's largest middle-class urbanity in four decades is impressive and compelling. Richard Hu guides global readers through China's metropolitan rise with analytical sophistication that shows both promise and flaws of the Chinese megacities. He presents China's new cities not as clones of the West but as a new genre of city building and an authentic attempt at reinventing urbanity. This is a timely text for policymakers, environmentalists, urban planners, and architects as we try to build cities of and for the future. -- Edward J. Blakely, Emeritus Professor of City Planning, University of California, Berkeley, and former President of the Pacific Rim Council on Urban DevelopmentOver the last decade, China has engaged a new, centrally led path of urban transformation with the aim to achieve a new-type urbanization connecting socialist principles with environmental concepts. Yet, the thinking behind this shift, the planning tools, and the national goals are difficult to grasp for scholars and practitioners outside China. Richard Hu builds on his first-hand knowledge of China and of international planning discussions to explore the new urban era. Notably, he explores the historical conditions that shape the present and influence future planning. This important book provides unique, refreshing insights into contemporary China for a global public. -- Carola Hein, Professor and Head of the History of Architecture and Urban Planning, Delft University of Technology, and President of the International Planning History SocietyRichard Hu provides a probing, well-informed, and cogently organized account of how China is crafting its 'new normal' of urbanization in its era of a green revolution, smart city commitment, and post-industrialization. -- Peter G. Rowe, Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Harvard University Distinguished Service ProfessorRichard Hu integrates both inside-out and outside-in perspectives and offers a holistic, balanced, and insightful reading of the real China. His analysis captures a particular kind of transversality, jumps into the unknown, and explores possibilities that go beyond the familiar. He unpacks an astounding array of complexities in China's transformation that we in the West might have overlooked or forgotten. Yes, this is a splendid text worth reading! -- Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia UniversityThis book provides a compact, lucid, and timely account of Chinese cities at the leading edge of urbanization. With China hitching its socialist modernization to indigenous innovation, cities are being charged with realizing the vision of a smart, livable, green future. Richard Hu does an admirable job of showing both top-down and bottom-up actions shaping cities into innovation hotbeds, the emerging lessons for others, and the way forward being charted by planners. It is a must-read for experts and those interested in the urban facets of China's development. -- Shahid Yusuf, Chief Economist of the Growth Dialogue, George Washington UniversityTable of ContentsAbbreviations1. A New Urban Era?2. The Green Revolution3. The Smart City Movement4. The Great Innovation Leap Forward5. The Xiong’an Experiment6. Reorienting Hong Kong7. Imagining 2035 and Beyond8. The Nature of the Chinese CityAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisRichard Hu unpacks recent trends in urban planning and development to explore the making and imagining of the contemporary Chinese city.Trade ReviewThe path from small, poor villages dotting a vast desolate Asian hinterland to the world's largest middle-class urbanity in four decades is impressive and compelling. Richard Hu guides global readers through China's metropolitan rise with analytical sophistication that shows both promise and flaws of the Chinese megacities. He presents China's new cities not as clones of the West but as a new genre of city building and an authentic attempt at reinventing urbanity. This is a timely text for policymakers, environmentalists, urban planners, and architects as we try to build cities of and for the future. -- Edward J. Blakely, Emeritus Professor of City Planning, University of California, Berkeley, and former President of the Pacific Rim Council on Urban DevelopmentOver the last decade, China has engaged a new, centrally led path of urban transformation with the aim to achieve a new-type urbanization connecting socialist principles with environmental concepts. Yet, the thinking behind this shift, the planning tools, and the national goals are difficult to grasp for scholars and practitioners outside China. Richard Hu builds on his first-hand knowledge of China and of international planning discussions to explore the new urban era. Notably, he explores the historical conditions that shape the present and influence future planning. This important book provides unique, refreshing insights into contemporary China for a global public. -- Carola Hein, Professor and Head of the History of Architecture and Urban Planning, Delft University of Technology, and President of the International Planning History SocietyRichard Hu provides a probing, well-informed, and cogently organized account of how China is crafting its 'new normal' of urbanization in its era of a green revolution, smart city commitment, and post-industrialization. -- Peter G. Rowe, Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Harvard University Distinguished Service ProfessorRichard Hu integrates both inside-out and outside-in perspectives and offers a holistic, balanced, and insightful reading of the real China. His analysis captures a particular kind of transversality, jumps into the unknown, and explores possibilities that go beyond the familiar. He unpacks an astounding array of complexities in China's transformation that we in the West might have overlooked or forgotten. Yes, this is a splendid text worth reading! -- Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia UniversityThis book provides a compact, lucid, and timely account of Chinese cities at the leading edge of urbanization. With China hitching its socialist modernization to indigenous innovation, cities are being charged with realizing the vision of a smart, livable, green future. Richard Hu does an admirable job of showing both top-down and bottom-up actions shaping cities into innovation hotbeds, the emerging lessons for others, and the way forward being charted by planners. It is a must-read for experts and those interested in the urban facets of China's development. -- Shahid Yusuf, Chief Economist of the Growth Dialogue, George Washington UniversityTable of ContentsAbbreviations1. A New Urban Era?2. The Green Revolution3. The Smart City Movement4. The Great Innovation Leap Forward5. The Xiong’an Experiment6. Reorienting Hong Kong7. Imagining 2035 and Beyond8. The Nature of the Chinese CityAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFrom one of the world''s most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings.''This book is a super-accessible guide as to why we shouldn''t put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that'' GRAYSON PERRY*****Our world is losing its humanity.Too many developers care more about their shareholders than society. Too many politicians care more about power than the people who vote for them. And too many cities feel soulless and depressing, with buildings designed for business, not for us.So where do we find hope?Thomas Heatherwick has an alternative. By changing the world around us, we can improve our health, restore our happiness, and save our planet. The time has come to put human emotion back at the heart of the design process. Drawing on thirty years of making bold, beautiful buildings, neuroscience and cognitive psychology, Heatherwick brings together vivid stories and hundreds of beautiful images into a visual masterpiece. Humanise will inspire us to do nothing less than remake our world.*****''Thomas Heatherwick brings a velvet sledgehammer to the way we think about buildings and how they change our lives . . . I want to live in the kind of city Heatherwick imagines!'' SIMON SINEK''Humanise is a masterwork. It''s quietly furious, impassioned, rigorous and forensic in all the right doses. It leaves me very hopeful indeed about how things could go from here'' ALAIN DE BOTTONTrade ReviewHumanise is a masterwork. It's quietly furious, impassioned, rigorous and forensic in all the right doses. It leaves me very hopeful indeed about how things could go from here. The Age of Boring might just have ended right now -- Alain de BottonThomas Heatherwick echoes many things I find myself saying as I travel round the country. How the hell did that monstrosity get built? Why is this place so depressing? Why is so much of the built environment so boring? This book will wind up quite a few architects, planners and developers who labour under the delusion that they are the adults in the room. Good. These people need to develop some compassion for the people who have to live with their joyless, bland, unlovable creations. This book is a super accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that -- Grayson PerryThomas Heatherwick brings a velvet sledgehammer to the way we think about buildings and how they change our lives. In simple, elegant words, he demands that we put people first. Not developers, politicians or architects. I want to live in the kind of city Heatherwick imagines! Vive la revolution! -- Simon Sinek, Optimist and New York Times-bestselling author of Start with Why and The Infinite GameThis book will help frustrated ordinary people and communities see what is possible -- David ByrneA revelation. Humanise offers an accessible, compelling and entirely unique perspective on the world in which we live. Heatherwick’s storytelling ability shines through on each and every page - pushing boundaries and challenging perspectives. At a time where thoughtful and constructive ideas and solutions, that put the public at the centre of decision-making, are sought more than ever - this book provides a spark to ignite conversations across our city, country and the globe on how to build a better world for everyone -- Sadiq Khan, Mayor of LondonHeatherwick makes the case for human buildings that nurture our health and happiness. Out with the 'blandemic' of boring buildings and let's get back to interestingness. He calls for us all to engage with our built environment and so we should -- Dame Sally DaviesArchitecture has the ability to uplift and inspire, support connection, and fuel invention - bringing life and vitality to our cities by making them better, more beautiful, more sustainable places to live and work. Thomas Heatherwick's new book offers us a powerful prescription for buildings that put the public first and help set the course for a brighter future for humanity -- Mike Bloomberg, entrepreneur, philanthropist, former Mayor of New York CityIn a social and economic tour de force, Thomas Heatherwick explodes the waste of bad design: the neighbourhoods destroyed, the wellbeing lost, the carbon burned. And then he pivots to the potential of bending the straight line into a curve, the building into the feeling, and the narrowly rational into the fully human -- Mark CarneyHumanise ignites the urgent public conversation I've been calling for for years -- Sir Terry Farrell CBE, architect and urban designerA book that will change how you see the world -- Simon JenkinsThe climate crisis, a post-pandemic era and war. All these issues that the world is facing require unprecedented approaches in art, architecture and design. Humanise transcends all borders, cultures and fields of expertise. This book maintains an exquisite balance between quantitative evidence, architectural history, ideals and reality. It urges all of us on this planet to celebrate life -- Mami Kataoka, Director of the Mori Art Museum, TokyoInspiring, enlightening and provocative, Humanise arms us with a new way of seeing our built environment, and makes explicit what's at stake if we blindly accept the status quo -- Noreena Hertz, author of The Lonely Century: A Call to ReconnectThomas Heatherwick's humanity centred imagination is brought to life through his buildings and designs. He challenges us all to see the world differently, in harmony with nature, for the better. Humanise is a look behind the scenes and into the mind of his creative genius -- Tony Fadell, NYT bestselling author of Build, iPod inventor, Nest founderHeatherwick's fascinating book argues we must bring public value and delight back to the world of architecture which has been lost in boringness that is bad for people and planet -- Marianna Mazzucato, author of Author of Misson Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing CapitalismA world-renowned designer * Wall Street Journal *The Leonardo da Vinci of our times -- Terence ConranProbably the most creative person in the world -- Stephen Ross

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A passionate view of what the author describes as the first conservation community."--Ann Durkin Keating, author of Chicago Neighborhoods and Suburbs: A Historical Guide"Thought-provoking and conversation starting. Makes a novel contribution to our understanding of how and why suburbs grow under various sets of circumstances. It's a story worthy of sharing and provides important lessons for communities facing conditions of sprawl. Indeed, the author clearly demonstrates that there are viable alternatives to sprawl."--Thomas J. Vicino, coauthor of Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitan Realities in the US"According to political scientist John Scott Watson (University of Illinois at Chicago) in his new book Prairie Crossing: Creating an American Conservation Community, its developers, George and Vicky Ranney, are 'using the market to preserve and protect the environment from free-market excess'. . . . The question remains: Do conservation communities represent a niche market or a large-scale alternative to conventional suburbia? This book is a great place to start finding out." --Planning

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Book SynopsisAn extensively illustrated, comprehensive exploration of the architecture and development of Old Cambridge from colonial settlement to bustling intersection of town and gown.Old Cambridge is the traditional name of the once-isolated community that grew up around the early settlement of Newtowne, which served briefly as the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and then became the site of Harvard College. This abundantly illustrated volume from the Cambridge Historical Commission traces the development of the neighborhood as it became a suburban community and bustling intersection of town and gown. Based on the city's comprehensive architectural inventory and drawing extensively on primary sources, Building Old Cambridge considers how the social, economic, and political history of Old Cambridge influenced its architecture and urban development.Old Cambridge was famously home to such figures as the proscribed Tories William Brattle and John Vassall; authors Henr

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Book SynopsisArchitects imagine the planet: fifty speculative world-scale projects from Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Luc Deleu, and others. The world's growing vulnerability to planet-sized risks invites action on a global scale. The World as an Architectural Project shows how for more than a century architects have imagined the future of the planet through world-scale projects. With fifty speculative projects by Patrick Geddes, Alison and Peter Smithson, Kiyonori Kikutake, Saverio Muratori, Takis Zenetos, Sergio Bernardes, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Luc Deleu, and many others, documented in text and images, this ambitious and wide-ranging book is the first compilation of its kind.Interestingly, architects begin to address the world as a project long before the advent of contemporary globalism and its assorted anxieties. The Spanish urban theorist and entrepreneur Arturo Soria y Mata, for example, in 1882 env

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the dramatic transformation of London’s financial district after 1945, viewed at four spatial scales: city, street, facade, interior.In The City in the City, Amy Thomas offers the first in-depth architectural and urban history of London’s financial district, the City of London, from the period of rebuilding after World War II to the explosive climax of financial deregulation in the 1980s and its long aftermath. Thomas examines abstract financial ideas, political ideology, and invisible markets as concrete realities; working on four spatial scales—city, street, facade, and interior—the book explores the grand plans, hidden alleys, neo-Georgian elevations, and sweaty dealing floors that have made the financial center work.Moving from politics to sociology, institutions to bodies, development plans to office desks, Thomas unravels the rich entanglements between the structure of the UK’s financial system and the

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Book SynopsisThe illuminating evolution of the iconic space of Times Square.What is it about Times Square that has inspired such attention for well over a century? And how is it that, despite its many changes of character, the place has maintained a unique hold on our collective imagination? In this book, which comes twenty years after her widely acclaimed Times Square Roulette, Lynne Sagalyn masterfully tells the story of profound urban change over decades in the symbolic space that is New York City’s Times Square. Drawing on the history, sociology, and political economy of the place, Times Square Remade examines how the public-private transformation of 42nd Street at Times Square impacted the entertainment district and adjacent neighborhoods, particularly Hell’s Kitchen.Sagalyn chronicles the earliest halcyon days of 42nd Street and Times Square as the nexus of speculation and competitive theater building as well as its darkest days as vice central, and on to the years of aggressive government intervention to cleanse West 42nd Street of pornography and crime. Thematically, the author analyzes the three main forces that have shaped and reshaped Times Square—theater, real estate, and pornography—and explains the politics and economics of what got built and what has been restored or preserved.Accompanied by nearly 160 images, more than half in color, Times Square Remade is a deftly woven narrative of urban transformation that will appeal as much to the general reader and New York City enthusiast as to urbanists, city planners, architects, urban designers, and policymakers.

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Book SynopsisShows how to combine the forces of ecological science and participatory democracy to design urban landscapes that enable us to act as communities, are resilient rather than imperiled, and touch our hearts.Over the last fifty years, the process of community building has been lost in the process of city building. City and suburban design divides us from others in our communities, destroys natural habitats, and fails to provide a joyful context for our lives. In Design for Ecological Democracy, Randolph Hester proposes a remedy for our urban anomie. He outlines new principles for urban design that will allow us to forge connections with our fellow citizens and our natural environment. He demonstrates these principles with abundantly illustrated examples—drawn from forty years of design and planning practice—showing how we can design cities that are ecologically resilient, that enhance community, and that give us pleasure. Hester argues that it is only b

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Book SynopsisTools for navigating today's hyper-connected, rapidly changing, and radically contingent white water world.Design Unbound presents a new tool set for having agency in the twenty-first century, in what the authors characterize as a white water world—rapidly changing, hyperconnected, and radically contingent. These are the tools of a new kind of practice that is the offspring of complexity science, which gives us a new lens through which to view the world as entangled and emerging, and architecture, which is about designing contexts. In such a practice, design, unbound from its material thingness, is set free to design contexts as complex systems.In a world where causality is systemic, entangled, in flux, and often elusive, we cannot design for absolute outcomes. Instead, we need to design for emergence. Design Unbound not only makes this case through theory but also presents a set of tools to do so. With case studies that range from a new kind of uni

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Book SynopsisKey concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems.Over the past ten years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. Are smart cities optimized, sustainable, digitally networked solutions to urban problems? Or are they neoliberal, corporate-controlled, undemocratic non-places? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise introduction to smart cities, presenting key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts, along with discussions of both the drawbacks and the benefits of

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Book SynopsisOriginal, action-oriented humanist practices for interpreting and intervening in the city: a new methodology at the intersection of the humanities, design, and urban studies.Urban humanities is an emerging field at the intersection of the humanities, urban planning, and design. It offers a new approach not only for understanding cities in a global context but for intervening in them, interpreting their histories, engaging with them in the present, and speculating about their futures. This book introduces both the theory and practice of urban humanities, tracing the evolution of the concept, presenting methods and practices with a wide range of research applications, describing changes in teaching and curricula, and offering case studies of urban humanities practices in the field.Urban humanities views the city through a lens of spatial justice, and its inquiries are centered on the microsettings of everyday life. The book's case studies report on real-world proj

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Book SynopsisWhy technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be “smart enough,” using technology to promote democracy and equity.Smart cities, where technology is used to solve every problem, are hailed as futuristic urban utopias. We are promised that apps, algorithms, and artificial intelligence will relieve congestion, restore democracy, prevent crime, and improve public services. In The Smart Enough City, Ben Green warns against seeing the city only through the lens of technology; taking an exclusively technical view of urban life will lead to cities that appear smart but under the surface are rife with injustice and inequality. He proposes instead that cities strive to be “smart enough”: to embrace technology as a powerful tool when used in conjunction with other forms of social change—but not to value technology as an end in itself.In a technology-centric smart city, self-driving cars have the run of downtown and force out pedes

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Book SynopsisThe transformations of the Strip—from the fake Wild West to neon signs twenty stories high to “starchitecture”—and how they mirror America itself.The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury modern sleekness. It has illuminated itself with twenty-story-high neon signs, then junked them. After that came Disney-like theme parks featuring castles and pirates, followed by replicas of Venetian canals, New York skyscrapers, and the Eiffel Tower. (It might be noted that forty-two million people visited Las Vegas in 2015—ten million more than visited the real Paris.) More recently, the Strip decided to get classy, with casinos designed by famous architects and zillion-dollar collections of art. Las Vegas became the “implosion capital of the world” as developers, driven by competition, got rid of the old to make way for the new—offering a non-metaphorical definition of “creative destruction.” In The Strip, Stefan Al examines the many transformations of the Las Vegas Strip, arguing that they mirror transformations in America itself. The Strip is not, as popularly supposed, a display of architectural freaks but representative of architectural trends and a record of social, cultural, and economic change.Al tells two parallel stories. He describes the feverish competition of Las Vegas developers to build the snazziest, most tourist-grabbing casinos and resorts—with a cast of characters including the mobster Bugsy Siegel, the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and the would-be political kingmaker Sheldon Adelson. And he views the Strip in a larger social context, showing that it has not only reflected trends but also magnified them and sometimes even initiated them. Generously illustrated with stunning color images throughout, The Strip traces the many metamorphoses of a city that offers a vivid projection of the American dream.

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Book SynopsisWhich are the world''s best streets, and what are the physical, designable characteristics that make them great? To answer these questions, Allan Jacobs has surveyed street users and design professionals and has studied a wide array of street types and urban spaces around the world. With more than 200 illustrations, all prepared by the author, along with analysis and statistics, Great Streets offers a wealth of information on street dimensions, plans, sections, and patterns of use, all systematically compared. It also reveals Jacobs''s eye for the telling human and social details that bring streets and communities to life.An extensive introduction discusses the importance of streets in creating communities and criteria for identifying the best streets. The essays that follow examine 15 particularly fine streets, ranging from medieval streets in Rome and Copenhagen to Venice''s Grand Canal, from Parisian boulevards to tree-lined residential streets in American cities. Jacobs also looks at several streets that were once very fine but are less successful today, such as Market Street in San Francisco, identifying the factors that figure in their decline. To broaden his coverage, Jacobs adds briefer treatments of more than 30 other streets arranged by street type, including streets from Australia, Japan, and classical antiquity in addition to European and North American examples. For each of these streets he has prepared plans, sections, and maps, all drawn at the same scales to facilitate comparisons, along with perspective views and drawings of significant design details. Another remarkable feature of this book is a set of 50 one square-mile maps, each reproduced at the same scale, of the street plans of representative cities around the world. These reveal much about the texture of the cities'' street patterns and hence of their urban life. Jacobs''s analysis of the maps adds much original data derived from them, including changes of street patterns over time. Jacobs concludes by summarizing the practical design qualities and strategies that have contributed most to the making of great streets.

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Book SynopsisStudies the reconstruction of Byzantine Constantinople as the capital city of the Ottoman empire following its capture in 1453, delineating the complex interplay of socio-political, architectural, visual, and literary processes that underlay the city's transformation.Trade Review“Çiğdem Kafescioğlu’s elegant study examines the creation of the Ottoman capital of Istanbul through the reformulation of the Byzantine capital of Constantinople. The book provides clarity, nuance, and new perspectives on a formative period in the city’s history. It is well written, engaging, packed with valuable observations, and based on important new archival documents. This is a significant contribution to urban history in general and to the history and architecture of Byzantine Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul in particular.”—Robert Ousterhout,University of Pennsylvania“Linking the rebuilding of the conquered city to the building of the empire, Kafescioğlu traces interventions to urban and architectural forms, interweaving them with shifting political, ideological, and religious issues. The arguments are powerful and convincingly presented. The research is top-notch and integrates material from many sources, including an impressive range of hitherto untapped archival documents.”—Zeynep Çelik,New Jersey Institute of Technology“This latest title in the award-winning Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies series does not disappoint. Elegantly designed with a double column layout that is easy on the eye, this book is profusely illustrated with eight color plates, five maps, and 152 black-and-white photographs, plans, or other drawings to scale. This book is highly recommended for academic and research libraries supporting historical research.”—Janine J. Henri ARLIS/NA Reviews“Kafescioğlu argues that the foundations of Istanbul’s later development were laid out in the first decades following the conquest, but this involved a complex dynamics in which diverse cultural traditions, Ottoman and Byzantine, along with Renaissance ideas of ordering the urban environment encountered each other. . . . [Constantinopolis/Istanbul] will undoubtedly remain an important resource for new Istanbul studies for years to come.”—Ipek Türeli CAA Reviews“For Byzantinists, 1453 is an ending, for Ottomanists, a beginning. For the history of the city neither is correct, one of the important contributions of this book. Byzantinists need to engage this new book and to rise to its challenges. . . . Constantinopolis/Istanbul is our best analysis of the early history of the Ottoman City.”—Robert S. Nelson Art Bulletin“Constantinopolis/Istanbul is a painstakingly researched and documented and lavishly illustrated account of the city from 1453–1581. Its numerous maps, photographs, and plates combine with the written analysis to produce an in-depth study which will be of great value to both specialists and general readers.”—Valerie Kennedy Sixteenth Century Journal“There is much to recommend in Ciğdem Kafescioğlu’s carefully researched and elegant book, not the least of which is a thorough analysis of the transformation of Byzantine Constantinople into Ottoman Istanbul.”—Andrea Bubenik ParergonTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Between Edirne and Kostantiniyye: The City’s First Ottoman Years2. Constructing the City: The Architectural ProjectsPart 1: The Urban Program and Mehmed’s FoundationPart 2: The Patronage of the New Ruling ElitePart 3: Memory, Space, and Vision in Constructions of the Ottoman Capital City3. Representing the City: Constantinople and Its Images4. Istanbul InhabitedEpilogue: A Picture from Circa 1537NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisSpotlighting innovative design projects in places ranging from Texas to Italy and China, this book sounds a call for architects, designers, and regional planners to create a built environment that works on a regional scale in harmony with the planet's ecoTrade ReviewThe strengths of Design for a Vulnerable Planet lie with its engaging, diverse, and reflective narrative. Steiner draws on decades of firsthand experience and knowledge of the architecture, landscape architecture, and planning fields. The chapters are (mostly) short and readable, and they provide a breadth of views on design and a variety of scales of action…. The book contributes to our understanding of the process and product of ecological and regional design, particularly in Texas, and the dynamics and challenges of projects that increase sustainability. It also enhances the foundation and awareness of the new regionalism and landscape urbanism and bridges design disciplines, providing an inside view of how the groups can—and do—work together toward the same goal of sustainable design. Design for a Vulnerable Planet will be of interest to students who endeavor to understand how planners and designers can build a healthy, attractive, and resilient world. -- Amy J. Lynch, University of Pennsylvania * Journal of Planning Education and Research *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Interdisciplinary Design and the Fate of Our Planet I. Living Urban Environments 1. Architecture and the Wealth of Regions 2. Sustaining Design: The Solar Decathlon Competitions 3. Twenty-First-Century Architecture 4. Architecture Has Left the Building: The Sustainable Sites Initiative 5. Making Territory: The Potential of Landscape Urbanism II. Lessons from Paul Cret, Ian McHarg, and George Mitchell 6. City Limits: Pioneer Plans in Austin 7. The Woodlands: The Ecological Design of a New City III. Emerging Urbanism in Texas 8. The Trinity River Corridor: Another Emerald Necklace or an Emerald Choker? 9. Making Limoncello from Lemons: The Blanton Museum of Art Plaza Design 10. True Urbanism: The Design of Performance Park in the Dallas Arts District 11. Legacies IV. New Regionalism in Texas and Beyond 12. The Green Heart of Texas 13. Envision Central Texas 14. The Texas Triangle Megaregion 15. New Regionalism V. Learning from Abroad 16. Environmental Readings: The Italian Design Tradition 17. Autumn Moon: Design and Planning in China VI. Learning from Disaster 18. In Search of a Fitting Tribute: The United Flight 93 Memorial 19. Resilient Foundations: Planning for the Gulf Coast After Hurricane Katrina VII. Conclusion 20. The Sedimentation of Our Minds: Prospects for New Design Thinking Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA hard-hitting, highly readable look at what makes cities work -- or not work.Trade Review"Concern with traffic, environmental indifference and careless land development patterns, indeed, growing awareness of the many consequences of sprawl has led to calls for 'smart growth.' One of the smartest ways to prepare to effectuate smarter growth is to read How Cities Work. In a gentle but lucid and persuasive way Alex Marshall reminds us that the responsibility for making and maintaining good communities is a public one--that city-building is a public art dependent on public leadership, not acquiescence to private caprice. Anyone interested in helping to sustain rather than complain about the loss of community must read this book." --Alex Krieger, Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design "This is an outstanding book that I hope and expect will make a major contribution to the current debate on cities and suburbs." --Robert Fishman, author of American Planning Tradition: Culture and Policy and Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia " ... rich in evocative metaphors ... written in a lively style"--Geography, January 2002 "How Cities Work is an engaging read, containing important messages relevant not only to those in the urban design profession, but also to the wider public who have a role in deciding how cities should be shaped."--Journal of Urban Design, Vol. 7 No. 3, 2002Table of Contents Introduction: The Sex of Cities Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Towns: Kissimmee versus Celebration and the New Urbanism Chapter 2: The End of Place Chapter 3: The Deconstructed City: The Silicon Valley Chapter 4: Trading Places: The City and the Suburb Chapter 5: Jackson Heights: An Anachronism Finds Its Way Chapter 6: The Master Hand: The Role of Government in Building Cities Chapter 7: Portland and Oregon: Taming the Forces That Create the Modern Metropolitan Area Chapter 8: No Place Called Home: Community at the Millennium Chapter 9: Conclusion. Getting There: Building Healthy Cities Acknowledgments Notes Selected References Index

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Book SynopsisRichard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. He reshaped the field of landscape architecture as a designer, teacher, and activist. In 1964, Haag founded the landscape architecture department at the University of Washington, and his innovative work contributed to the increasingly significant design approach known as urban ecological design, which encourages thinking beyond the boundaries of gardens and parks to consider the broader roles that landscapes play within urban ecosystems, such as storm water drainage and wildlife habitat. Gas Works Park is studied in every survey of twentieth-century landscape architecture as a modern work that challenged the tenets of modernism by engaging a toxic site and celebrating an industrial past. Haag's work with ecologists and soil scientists in his landscape remediation and reclamation projects opened new areas of inquiry into theTrade Review"While the book tells Haag's story, it also describes the evolution of landscape architecture in the Northwest." * Columns *"Since 1964, when he founded the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington, Haag has gained a warranted admiration that Way has sharply surveyed and illustrated in her new book." -- Paul Dorpat * Pacific NW Magazine *"This very detailed work is most useful for professionals. The book brings new attention to Pacific Northwest landscape design. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword by Marc Treib Preface Acknowledgments 1. Growing up in a Kentucky landscape 2. A Landscape Education 3. “Keep Your Eyes Open!” 4. Designing the Home Garden in California 5. A Teacher’s Teacher 6. Gardens of the Pacific Northwest 7. From Modernism to Urbanism 8. The Art of the Landform as Landscape Architecture 9. “It Was a Gas!” at Gas Works Park 10. Land Sculpting and Ecological Design at the Bloedel Reserve 11. The Legacy Afterword by Laurie Olin Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Index

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Book SynopsisAn indispensable book for architects, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, architectural and urban scholars, government officials, developers, environmentalists, and citizens interested in understanding and shaping the American metropolis.Trade Review"The reader's urban experience will never be quite the same after experiencing this book. With clarity, precision, and deft detail, Kelbaugh pans the unsustainable design strategies and conceits of an auto-crazed culture, as our human spirit vanishes in the rearview mirror. The author is uniquely well qualified to connect the dots between the habitat we could fashion and the humanity we could reclaim." * Planning and Zoning News *"An academic's thoughtful meditation on values that should underlie development—community, sustainable order, and human spirit—and a discerning examination of the proposed remedies." * New Urban News *"Kelbaugh describes architects' and urban planners' responses to the problems of 20th-century urbanism and reviews the predicament of modern suburbanization, offering a cognent critique of both modernist and postmodernist paradigms. In contrast to architectural historians who do similar work, however, Kelbaugh also suggests solutions to the spatial problems he documents." * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Suburban Sprawl: Paved with Good Intentions 2. Critical Regionalism: An Architecture of Place 3. Typology: An Architecture of Limits 4. New Urbanism: Versus Everyday Urbanism and Post Urbanism 5. Public Policy: What We Should Do A.S.A.P. Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"While the book tells Haag's story, it also describes the evolution of landscape architecture in the Northwest." * Columns *"Since 1964, when he founded the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington, Haag has gained a warranted admiration that Way has sharply surveyed and illustrated in her new book." -- Paul Dorpat * Pacific NW Magazine *"This very detailed work is most useful for professionals. The book brings new attention to Pacific Northwest landscape design. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword by Marc Treib Preface Acknowledgments 1. Growing up in a Kentucky landscape 2. A Landscape Education 3. “Keep Your Eyes Open!” 4. Designing the Home Garden in California 5. A Teacher’s Teacher 6. Gardens of the Pacific Northwest 7. From Modernism to Urbanism 8. The Art of the Landform as Landscape Architecture 9. “It Was a Gas!” at Gas Works Park 10. Land Sculpting and Ecological Design at the Bloedel Reserve 11. The Legacy Afterword by Laurie Olin Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Wilderburbs builds on the idea that human culture inherently shaped residents’ interactions with their environment. Examining this phenomena and communities in detail uncovers the profound environmental consequences for our desire to live in the wilderness." * USDA Blog *"This readable, lively book will prove difficult to classify for those accustomed to arraying the settings for environmental history along a continuum…. Arizonans and historians of the state should definitely read this book. What Wilderburbs does especially well is…good environmental history." -- Jeremy Vetter * Journal of Arizona History *"A cautionary tale of the ecological challenges in transplanting urban sensibilities in the American West." * Choice *"[T]his book opened my eyes to the broad outlines and intimate details of a ubiquitous trend in the American West. . . and to the unintended consequences of appreciating and loving nature too much. Smart, engaging, and deeply researched, Wilderburbs is a welcome addition to the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series and merits a wide audience." -- Jedediah S. Rogers * Environmental History *Table of ContentsForeword / William Cronon Preface Acknowledgments Introduction | Moving into the Woods 1. Redefining Residential Development in the Rural West 2. Water in the Wilderburbs 3. Fire on the Forest Edge 4. Wildlife out the Back Door Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The reader's urban experience will never be quite the same after experiencing this book. With clarity, precision, and deft detail, Kelbaugh pans the unsustainable design strategies and conceits of an auto-crazed culture, as our human spirit vanishes in the rearview mirror. The author is uniquely well qualified to connect the dots between the habitat we could fashion and the humanity we could reclaim." * Planning and Zoning News *"An academic's thoughtful meditation on values that should underlie development—community, sustainable order, and human spirit—and a discerning examination of the proposed remedies." * New Urban News *"Kelbaugh describes architects' and urban planners' responses to the problems of 20th-century urbanism and reviews the predicament of modern suburbanization, offering a cognent critique of both modernist and postmodernist paradigms. In contrast to architectural historians who do similar work, however, Kelbaugh also suggests solutions to the spatial problems he documents." * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Suburban Sprawl: Paved with Good Intentions 2. Critical Regionalism: An Architecture of Place 3. Typology: An Architecture of Limits 4. New Urbanism: Versus Everyday Urbanism and Post Urbanism 5. Public Policy: What We Should Do A.S.A.P. Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisInvestigating why cities look the way they do, this book compares the strikingly different landscapes of Boston and New York. It explores the physical differences between the two, comparing building patterns and architectural styles to show how a society's vision creates its own urban form.

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Book SynopsisThe idea of a "Greater London" emerged in the 18th century with the expansion of the city's suburbs. In this book, the author traces this growth back to the 17th century, when domestic retreats were established in outlying areas. It shows London as the forerunner of the complex, multifaceted modern cities of today.Trade Review"Elizabeth McKellar is one of the most perceptive and sensible of architectural historians, and she understands London like few others. Her new book Landscapes of London will be important because we now know so much architectural innovation stemmed from cities and the mercantile classes that lived in them."—Simon Thurley, BBC History Magazine -- Simon Thurley * BBC History Magazine *Book of the Year, TLS * TLS *‘That rare thing, a scholarly volume of interest to the non-specialist. Tracing suburbia since the 17th century, McKellar shows historic London as the forerunner of today’s culturally and architecturally complex, multi-faceted cities; she made me look at the layers of the city I thought I knew with fresh eyes.’—Jackie Wullschlager, The Financial Times -- Jackie Wullschlager * Financial Times *"This book, a major contribution to cultural history, establishes that a suburban culture existed in London's rural-urban interface much earlier than the early-19th-century time period posited by conventional scholarship. McKellar employs a variety of sources, including guidebooks, art, music, and literature, to document the culture of the inhabitants of the suburban landscape that emerged in this zone in the 17th century."—E.H. Teague, CHOICE -- E.H. Teague * CHOICE *Winner of the 2017 Elisabeth MacDougall Book Award by the Society of Architecture Historians. -- Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award * Society of Architectural Historians *

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Book SynopsisThe garden suburb has its origins in London, and, contrary to wide-spread belief, its earliest phase took place not at the beginning of the twentieth century, with the much discussed garden-city movement, but one century earlier. This book provides an account of the Eyre Estate.Trade Review"Cottages and Villas is a valuable contribution to the history of London, lavishly produced and illustrated."—Alan Powers, The Times Literary Supplement -- Alan Powers * The Times Literary Supplement * Winner of the 2013 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize, given by the Foundation for Landscape Studies. -- 2013 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize * Foundation for Landscape Studies *

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive new survey tracing the global history of urbanism and urban design from the industrial revolution to the presentTrade ReviewWinner of the Outstanding Academic Title for 2018 award, sponsored by Choice“Urbanization and the form that it takes is once again at the center of debates and agendas, and Eric Mumford’s long-needed survey will provide students and practitioners with an informed historical base for approaching contemporary urban conditions.”—Alan Plattus, Yale University“Mumford’s book is a refreshing and much-needed alternative to previous surveys of modern urbanism that have foregrounded architecture at the expense of planning, and Europe and the United States at the expense of everywhere else.”—Gabrielle Esperdy, New Jersey Institute of Technology“Readers will need to fasten their seatbelts as they follow Mumford’s concise history of more than 150 years of urbanism. This is a magisterial work that will serve as an ideal text for a course on the topic.”—Mosette Broderick, New York University“Eric Mumford deserves credit for the scale and ambition of this major new survey of modern urban thought and practice. No other book compares.”—Simon Gunn, University of Leicester“Of first importance to students of urban design and architecture, this essential narrative of the modern city gives pioneering works their proper place in a global history.”—Seng Kuan, Harvard GSD and Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“A deep and scholarly study, Sara Stevens’s book identifies the real estate developer as the central protagonist responsible for shaping modern American cities. Sharply focused on the stories of three major developers, the book presents an oft-maligned actor whose ability to maneuver between capital, design, and policy deserves to be recognized as a significant force of urban transformation.” —Metropolis“Sara Stevens' original approach fills a big gap in our interdisciplinary understanding of the history of the city and its morphology.”—Alice T. Friedman, Wellesley College“The history of city building and architecture involves much more than the designs of great architects. Real estate developers are necessary and vital elements in the story, and Stevens superbly examines their role in the fashioning of the modern metropolis.”—Jon C. Teaford, Purdue University“The ambitious figures that populate this fascinating study developed a powerful expertise that ranged from financing to politics to desire, enabling them to utterly reshape America’s urban and suburban landscapes.” —Sarah Whiting, Dean of the Rice School of Architecture

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“[A] beautiful new book [. . .] City Unseen, is based on the striking geometries and bold colors of satellite images and tells about our urban world as it is seen from space”— Roman Cybriwsky, Environmental History“The images in City Unseen struck me in much the same way as my views out the spacecraft window: stunning, beautiful, and enlightening.”—Kathryn D. Sullivan, retired NASA astronaut and former Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration“One will never look at cities in the same way. City Unseen provides an urban observatory and tells a compelling story of sustainable development that all should see and read, regardless of where one calls home.”—Dawn J. Wright, Chief Scientist, Esri“City Unseen allows a unique look at cities with the help of satellite technology, demonstrating both our vulnerability and the opportunities to design a sustainable urban future.”— Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Former Director General, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)“Magnificent. Powerful images and crisp informative writing put cities across the world into comparative perspective to reveal patterns and places hitherto unseen.”—Susan Parnell, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town"Seto and Reba have produced a masterful and much-needed foundation to reinforce decision-makers’ abilities to manage 21st century territorial development. This is a must-read and enduring reference for all urbanists."—Eugenie L. Birch, University of Pennsylvania

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Book SynopsisProviding essential knowledge about the British capital's built environment, these two volumes cover a large portion of the parish of St. Marylebone, bounded to the south by Oxford Street and to the north by the Marylebone Road, and stretching from just west of Marylebone High Street to the parish boundary along Cleveland Street near Tottenham Court Road to the east. This area is rich in historic buildings and includes some of London's most celebrated addresses, including Portland Place, Cavendish Square, and Harley Street. Among the most important buildings covered in this superbly illustrated book are Robert and JamesAdam's development of Portland Place, where the Royal Institute of British Architects' headquarters is a notable 20th-century insertion. Other landmarks include Marylebone Parish Church, All Saints Margaret Street and All Souls Langham Place, and the vast, recently demolished Middlesex Hospital. In addition to new photography, this volume includes meticulous architecturaTrade Review"These two [volumes] cover a chunk of the historic West End in unrivalled detail following years of rigorous research." — Robert Bevan, Evening Standard"Superbly researched, well written and comprehensively illustrated" — John Martin Robinson, Country Life"the authors have […] deepened our understanding of what urbanity is, and how it can be preserved and enhanced." — Geoffrey Tyack, The Georgian"two splendid volumes" — Mark Girouard, The Victorian"the scholarly traditions of the Survey are more than maintained and the attractiveness of the product, both in words and pictures, seems ever to get brighter." — Frank Kelsall, Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society“One cannot do justice in a review to the depth and diversity of these volumes, to their enhancement of understanding of a complex area of London.” – Bridget Cherry, London Topographical Society Newsletter“At a time when the bookshelves groan with fresh publications on the capital, a single chapter of the Survey is worth a whole volume of psychogeographical lucubrations.” —Simon Bradley, The Burlington Magazine

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Book SynopsisAn essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United States shaped architecture and urban design from the czarist era to the fall of the U.S.S.R.Trade Review“The book isn’t argumentative or polemical so much as illuminating, a collection of extraordinary anecdotes, objects and ephemera. . . . The illustrations, some of which are assembled into photo-essays between chapters, are stories in themselves.”—Owen Hatherley, London Review of Books“A fascinating history of reflections and distortions that traces the image of Russia and that of modernity itself.”—Arquitectura VivaNamed One of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2020, sponsored by the Swiss Culture Awards Federal Office of CultureWinner of the SAH Exhibition Catalogue Award, sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians

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Book Synopsis"Frederick Law Olmsted (1822--1903) designed New York City's Central Park, Brooklyn's Prospect Park, Chicago's South Park and Jackson Park, Montreal's Mount Royal Park, the park systems of Boston and Bu"Table of Contents* Introduction by S. B. Sutton Expanding Cities: Random versus Organized Growth * The Structure of Cities: A Historical View * The Misfortunes of New York * Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns City Parks and Improved Use of Metropolitan Spaces * San Francisco, 1866: A City in Search of Identity * Buffalo: A Lakeshore Park and Pleasing Parkways * Chicago: Taming the Waterfront * Montreal: A Mountaintop Park and Some Thoughts on Art and Nature * Boston: Parks and Parkwaysa Green Ribbon Suburban Solutions * Berkeley: A University Community * Riverside, Illinois: A Planned Community near Chicago

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Book SynopsisThe first major biography of the irrepressible woman who changed the way we view and live in cities, and whose influence is felt to this day.Jane Jacobs was a phenomenal woman who wrote seven groundbreaking books, saved neighborhoods, stopped expressways, was arrested twice, and engaged in thousands of impassioned debates—all of which she won. Robert Kanigel's revelatory portrait of Jacobs, based on new sources and interviews, brings to life the child who challenged her third-grade teacher; the high school poet; the mother who raised three children; the journalist who honed her skills at Architectural Forum and Fortune before writing her most famous book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities; and the activist who helped lead a successful protest against Robert Moses’s proposed expressway through her beloved Greenwich Village.

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Book SynopsisIn the era of the Anthropocene, site matters are more pressing than ever. Building on the concepts, theories, and multi-disciplinary approaches raised in the first edition, this publication strives to address the changes that have taken place over the last 15 years with new material to complement and re-position the initial volume. Reaching across design disciplines, this highly illustrated anthology assembles essays from architects, landscape architects, urban designers, planners, historians, and artists to explore ways to physically and conceptually engage site. Thoughtful discourse and empirically grounded pieces combine to provide the language and theory to contextualize the meanings of site in the built environment. The increasingly complex hybridity of constructed environments today demands new tools for thinking about and working with site. Drawing contributions from outside and within the traditional design disciplines, this edition will trace important developments in site thinking with new essays on topics such as climate change, landscape as infrastructure, shifts from global to planetary urbanization debates, and the proliferation of participatory site transformation practices. Edited by two leading practitioners and academics, Site Matters juxtaposes timeless contributions from individuals including Elizabeth Meyer, Robert Beauregard, and Robin Dripps with original new writings from Peter Marcuse, Jane Wolff, Neil Brenner, and Thaisa Way, amongst others, to recontextualize and reignite the debate around site. An ideal text for students, academics, and researchers interested in site and design theory.Trade Review"Site Matters is serious scholarship on an urgent topic. Site is so much more than landscape—it is a concept loaded with social and political meaning, imbued with narrative that needs to be revealed and understood if we are to address climate change—and now global pandemics—in a resourceful way. This reader provides an essential and plausible foundation for tapping that intelligence."Emily Talen, University of Chicago"This innovative and now fully updated set of short essays invites reflection on the meaning of the site as a focal point for the design imagination. The collection provides a uniquely fine-grained and polyphonic vantage point for the enrichment of urban discourse in uncertain times."Matthew Gandy, Professor of Geography, University of Cambridge"Site Matters predicted a relational and contingent trajectory for architecture. Its assertive wake-up call implied that design disciplines, including my own, had insufficiently theorized how site circumstances shape project outcomes. The authors were right. I welcome this new work for its even broader transdisciplinary reach and its frank embrace of earth-bound realities we dare not overlook."Gary Hilderbrand, Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture, Harvard GSD, Principal, Reed Hilderbrand"The original edition of Site Matters was pioneering in its multidisciplinary approach. This new edition further widens the lens, reflecting the complexity and uncertainty of the times in which we live, and the scale of the challenges we face, particularly the climate crisis. Kahn and Burns, and their diverse roster of contributors, are again ahead of the curve, searching—with deliberation and urgency—for the way forward."Deborah Berke, Dean, Yale School of ArchitectureTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition Andrea Kahn Why Site Matters Carol J. Burns and Andrea KahnClaiming the Site: Ever Evolving Social-Legal Conceptions of Ownership and Property Harvey Jacobs Reclaiming Context: Between Autonomy and Engagement Esin Komez-Daglioglu Site Citations: The Grounds of Modern Landscape Architecture Elizabeth Meyer Site Specific or Site Responsive Interview with Denise Markonish Carol J. Burns Groundwork Robin Dripps Landscape Processes as Site Context Simon DixonIn the Anthropocene Site Matters In Four Ways Dirk Sijmons Shifting Sites Kristina Hill Adaptive Systems: Environment, Site and BuildingCarol J. Burns Translating Sites: A Plea for Radicant Design Lisa Diedrich Defining Urban Sites: Towards Ecotone-Thinking for an Urbanizing WorldAndrea Kahn Sites, Stories, Representations, Citizens Jane Wolff Urban site as Collective Knowledge Thaisa WayFrom Place to Site Robert BeauregardNeighborhoods Apart: Site/Non-Sight and Suburban Apartments Paul M. HessFrom Gerrymandering to Co-mandering: Re-drawing the lines Peter MarcuseAfterwords What does site look like to …Neil Brenner Naomi Darling Anne Haynes Claudia Herasme Natalie Mahowald James Musser Judith Nitsch Jeremy Till Janet EchelmanList of Contributors Figure Credits Index

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Book SynopsisPublic Space: Between Reimagination and Occupation examines contemporary public space as a result of intense social production reflecting contradictory trends: the long-lasting effects of the global crisis, manifested in supranational trade-offs between political influence, state power and private ownership; and the appearance of global counter-actors, enabled by the expansion of digital communication and networking technologies and rooted into new participatory cultures, easily growing into mobile cultures of protest.The highlighted cases from Europe, Asia, Africa and North America reveal the roots of the pre-crisis processes of redistribution of capital and power as an aspect of the transition from the consumerist past into the post-consumerist present, by tracing the slow growth of social discontent that has led only a few years later to the mobilization of a new kind of self-conscious globally-acting class.This edited volume brings together a broad range of interdisciplinary discussions and approaches, providing sociologists, cultural geographers, and urban planning academics and students with an opportunity to explore the various social, cultural, economic and political factors leading to reappropriation and reimagination of the urban commons in the cities within which we live.Table of ContentsIntroduction Svetlana Hristova and Mariusz CzepczyńskiPart I. Concepts and Discourses: The Resilient Public Space 01. Re-Imagining Civil Society: Conflict and Control in the City’s Public Spaces Sharon Zukin02. Public Space in a Global World: After the SpectacleSvetlana Hristova03. Seeing the Local in Global CitiesJerome KrasePart II. Contestations and Rights: Public and Civic04. Civic Landscapes of Post-Socialist Cities: Urban Movements and the Recover of Public SpacesMariusz Czepczyński05. Public Space, Memory and Protest during Post-Socialist Transformation: The Emergence of University Square (Piaţa Universităţii), Bucharest as a space of protest Craig Young, Duncan Light and Daniela Dumbrăveanu06. Social Characteristic of Squares as Urban Spaces, Ulus and Kizilay Squares in Ankara Nuray Bayraktar07. Order and Heterotopia in an Urban Space: The Case of a Spanish Square Francisco Adolfo García Jerez08. Contested Public Spaces and the Right to the City: The Case of Cairo's Historic Bazaar Wael Salah FahmiPart III. Management and Governance: Transformation and Control09. The Meaning of Public Space in the Context of Space-Time Behaviour in the ‘Network City’: From Socialist to Sociable Public Space Anastasia Moiseeva, Remon Rooij and Harry Timmermans10. The Restructuring of Urban Public Space in the ‘Baltic Pearl’ Megan Dixon11. Public Green Space in Vienna between Utopia and Political StrategyPhilipp Rode and Eva Schwab12. The normative construction of a (public) urban space through the use of policy instruments: some reflections from northern Italy Michela Semprebon13. Negotiating Public Space in a Shopping Mall Pavel PospěchConclusions: Rediscovering Public Space GloballySvetlana Hristova and Mariusz CzepczyńskiNote on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisMega-events have long been used by cities as a strategy to secure global recognition and attract future economic investment. However, while cultural mega-events like the European Capital of Culture have become increasingly popular, cities have begun questioning the traditional model of other events such as the Olympic Games with many candidate cities cancelling bids in recent years. This approach to planning and developing cities through mega-events introduces a broad range of physical effects and nuanced institutional changes for cities, particularly for the more sensitive heritage areas of cities. This book explores these issues by first examining the dynamics of cities' attempts to reduce overall costs and increase the sustainability of these large events by further embedding them within the existing fabric of the city and second by studying in depth the impact on the heritage of host cities. This book investigates three World Heritage Cities: Genoa, Liverpool and Istanbul, each Trade Review"A timely and well researched investigation of the rise of cultural mega-events within urban agendas, and of the opportunities and threats such events raise in heritage-rich European cities. The book reflects on experiences from the UK, Italy and Turkey and will be of interest to researchers, heritage experts, mega-event promoters and policy makers." – Franco Bianchini, Professor of Cultural Policy and Planning, Director of Culture, Place and Policy Institute (CPPI), University of Hull"Zachary Jones discloses an innovative perspective not only on cultural mega-events but also on their relationship with cultural heritage and what urban planning and policy can do with it. His book provides the readers with solid evidence and it envisions new paths for mega-event and heritage research and planning." – Davide Ponzini, Associate Professor of Urban Planning, Politecnico di Milano"Zachary Jones presents a diligently researched and clearly written analysis of an important new phenomenon – the cultural mega-event – and its contributions to urban development and heritage globally. His carefully framed spatial stories support analyses of the political and economic drivers of these events (Olympics, expos, cultural capitals) and foreground their substantial long-term effects. This book makes significant contributions to the literature on heritage, urban design and development, and placemaking."— Randall Mason, Associate Professor, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania"Despite the clear potential for synergies and tensions to arise between cultural mega-events and the stewardship of built heritage, there has so far been a paucity of conceptually informed and empirically rich research on these issues. This book clearly addresses this gap in the state of our current knowledge by addressing how the hosting of such events may in some contexts be used as an opportunity to foster certain heritage objectives, whilst in others heritage may be a less central concern, or even be marginalised as something of a ‘poor relation’ in the wider cultural mega-event planning and hosting process. The book combines conceptual insights on these issues with engaging accounts of three emblematic cases of cities which have hosted the European Capital of Culture title – Genoa, Liverpool and Istanbul, to provide recommendations to decision makers on how to maximise the opportunities and minimise the threats presented by mega-events to heritage. It also provides a novel academic framework which can be used to elucidate these issues and in so doing significantly advances the present debate and scope for further research in the field." -- Olivier Sykes, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool Table of Contents1. Introduction: Mega-events and the city 2. The rise of cultural mega-events and shifting mega-event trends 3. Defining cultural mega-events and the mega-event process 4. The potential synergy between built heritage and mega-events 5. Genoa European Capital of Culture 2004: A cultural mega-event embedded within a strategic vision for heritage development 6. Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008: A cultural mega-event within a strategic regeneration overlooking heritage 7. Istanbul European Capital of Culture 2010: Competing visions for heritage in a cultural mega-event 8. Key issues emerging from the overlap of heritage and mega-events 9. Conclusions: Considerations for future historic cities hosting mega-events Index

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Book SynopsisHeritage-led Urban Regeneration in China presents the detailed history of three well-known streets in China; the Southern Song Imperial Street at Hangzhou, the residential Pingjiang Street at Suzhou, and the commercial Tunxi Old Street at Huangshan.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Figures and CaptionsPrefaceChapter 1: Embracing the Legacy of Historic Urban StreetsChapter 2: Historical Preservation, Heritage Conservation and Urban RegenerationChapter 3: Imperial Street: Southern Song Imperial Street, Hangzhou Chapter 4: Residential Street: Pingjiang Street, SuzhouChapter 5: Commercial Street: Tunxi Old Street, HuangshanChapter 6: The Past and Future of China’s Historic Street DistrictsChapter 7: Achieving an Authentic Historic Urban Street in China BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe experiences we enjoy, endure, or miss out on are influenced by what our surroundings allow and invite us to do. Just like our food diet, our experience diet influences our health and so our chances of finding happiness and fulfilling our potential. A healthy experience diet offers inspiration, reassurance, delight, and play. It nurtures physical, cognitive, and emotional health, builds resilience, and fosters confidence and self-esteem. An unhealthy experience diet lacks these things and consigns people to lives diminished in quantity and quality. Recipes for Urban Happiness offers an innovative way of looking at the relationship between people and place and redefines what good urban design is. The book outlines what designers and non-designers can do to create urban places where nurturing behaviours are both possible and preferable. Recipes for Urban Happiness will be relevant to public health, community development, and design practitioners, as well as students and academics.

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Book SynopsisGentrification is one of the most debilitatingand least understoodissues in American cities today. Scholars and community activists adjoin in Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures to engage directly and critically with the issue of gentrification and to address its impacts on marginalized, materially exploited, and displaced communities. Authors in this collection begin to unpack and explore the forces that underlie these significant changes in an area's social character and spatial landscape. Central in their analyses is an emphasis on racial formations and class relations, as they each look to find the essence of the urban condition through processes of demographic change, economic restructuring, and gentrification. Their original findings locate gentrification within a carefully integrated theoretical and political framework and challenge readers to look critically at the present and future of gentrification studies. Gentrification, DispTrade ReviewThis exciting, fresh, and timely collection Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures discusses the enduring and yet changing relationship between race and class with respect to processes of gentrification and offers a welcome and distinctive Latina/o/x consideration. A key focus is the necessary confrontation between neoliberalism and racialized mobilization in resisting market and state driven gentrification. This is a book that will add much to gentrification debates and that scholars and activists alike should buy! Loretta Lees, University of Leicester What does it mean to place the study of gentrification, as a necessarily racialized process of displacement and dispossession, at the very heart of critical urban theory? Here is a bold volume that does precisely this, drawing attention to the many modes of gentrification from cultural place-making to art washing to transit-oriented development. Refusing the inevitability of such spatial restructuring, the authors root their research and analysis in communities that imagine, demand, and create alternative futures. Ananya Roy, University of California, Los Angeles "This exciting, fresh, and timely collection Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures discusses the enduring and yet changing relationship between race and class with respect to processes of gentrification and offers a welcome and distinctive Latina/o/x consideration. A key focus is the necessary confrontation between neoliberalism and racialized mobilization in resisting market and state driven gentrification. This is a book that will add much to gentrification debates and that scholars and activists alike should buy!"Loretta Lees, University of Leicester "What does it mean to place the study of gentrification, as a necessarily racialized process of displacement and dispossession, at the very heart of critical urban theory? Here is a bold volume that does precisely this, drawing attention to the many modes of gentrification from cultural place-making to art washing to transit-oriented development. Refusing the inevitability of such spatial restructuring, the authors root their research and analysis in communities that imagine, demand, and create alternative futures."Ananya Roy, University of California, Los Angeles Table of Contents1. Introduction. 2. Neighborhood Change in Near-Transit Latinx Communities: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development. 3. Downtown Revitalization in Tucson, Arizona: A Historical Case Study of the Menlo Park Barrio—A Case for New Realities. 4. Houses for Living, Not Profit. 5. Displacing Los Angeles Chinatown: Racialization and Development in an Asian American Space. 6. Gentrification and Resistance in the U.S. South: The Case of the Historic Third Ward Neighborhood in Houston, Texas. 7. Commercial Gentrification in a Downtown “Made in Mexico”: The Case of Santa Ana in Southern California, 1980-2011. 8.Teaching, Learning, and Relationships to Space: Toward a Spatially Engaged Pedagogy. 9. Artists as “Shock Troops” of Gentrification? 10. Gentrification in New Orleans: Global Discourses and Material Effects.

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