City and town planning: architectural aspects Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Building San Franciscos Parks 18501930
Book SynopsisBuilding San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930 maps the political, cultural, and social dimensions of landscape design in urban America and offers new insights into the transformation of San Francisco's physical environment and quality of life through its world-famous park system.Trade ReviewAn excellent study... If anything could possibly improve an outing to Golden Gate Park, a copy of Building San Francisco's Parks looks just the ticket. San Francisco Chronicle Terence Young's Building San Francisco's Parks is part of a rather impressive Johns Hopkins University Press 'Creating the North American Landscape' series and covers the period of expansion from 1850-1930, tracing park system history and the key individuals responsible for its development. Bookwatch 2004 Young does a splendid job detailing the political intricacies and the physical difficulties in the formation of San Francisco's park system... His distinction between the 'romantic' and the 'rationalist' approaches to the formation of the city's parks is illuminating. Newsletter of the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society 2004 Written in a clear and fluid style... the book contributes a cogent examination of how landscapes are altered, land use conflicts persist, and changing expectations of nature impact park management. -- Elizabeth A. Watson CRM: Journal of Heritage Stewardship 2006 Through his engaging account of San Francisco's park system. Young illustrates the dynamic relationship between nature and society and the expectations of parks in urban social and physical planning. -- Laura Lawson Journal of the American Planning Association 2005 This comprehensive book offers fascinating insight into the process of creating and designing places for nature in the city of San Francisco, California... Reading this book will lend a new understanding of how recreational spaces such as Golden Gate Park have been strongly influenced by social ideals during the first third of the 20th century. -- Shawna J. Dark Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 2004 Mixes a nicely paced narrative with an effective analysis of the geology, climatology, botany, politics, and building of San Francisco. -- William H. Wilson Pacific Historical Review 2004 We certainly benefit from the marshaling of evidence from a surprisingly understudied city, and urban and environmental historians will find much to appreciate. -- Carl Abbott Journal of American History 2005 Building San Francisco's Parks is an important contribution to the history of parks in North America and provides a thorough case study of one of the continent's major urban park systems. -- Sean Kheraj H-Net Reviews 2009Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. The American Park Movement2. San Francisco's Park Movement3. Romantic Golden Gate Park4. The Public Reacts to its New ParkPhoto Gallery 1: A Walk through Golden Gate Park circa 19005. Rationalistic Golden Gate ParkPhoto Gallery 2: Views of San Francisco's Small Parks circa 19106. The Many Small Parks of San FranciscoNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Nature of Cities
Book SynopsisThe Nature of Cities brings together environmental and urban history to reveal how, over four decades, this ecological vision shaped the development of cities around the nation.Trade ReviewOf interest to scholars and students of urban history, planning, geography, and sociology, as well as urban studies more generally... Highly recommended. Choice 2010 An outstanding history of how ecological concerns have shaped urban development around the country. -- James A. Cox Midwest Book Review 2009 A fascinating and suggestive account. -- Adam Rome Technology and Culture 2010 This book makes an important contribution to the study of twentieth century American cities. -- Robert Gioielli Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Revisiting American Antiurbanism1. The City Is an Ecological Community2. The City Is a National Resource3. A Life Cycle Plan for Chicago4. From Natural Law to State Law5. A Nation of Renewable CitiesConclusion: From Ecology to SystemNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Southern Illinois University Press Grant Park The Evolution of Chicagos Front Yard
Book SynopsisLong considered the showplace and cultural centre of Chicago, Grant Park has been the site of tragedy and tension, as well success and joy. Amply illustrated with maps and images from throughout Chicago’s history, this volume shows readers how Chicago’s ‘front yard’ developed into one of the finest urban parks in the US today.Trade ReviewGrant Park is Chicago’s storied front yard. If there is one place to see the rich panoply of Chicago history unfold, I can think of no better spot than Chicago’s lakefront park. Dennis H. Cremin has crafted a rich chronicle of Grant Park that highlights its central place in the history of Chicago. Chapter by chapter, Cremin takes his reader from the park’s origins in the shadow of Fort Dearborn to the creation of Millennium Park." - Ann Durkin Keating, author of Chicagoland: City and Suburbs of the Railroad Age"Cremin provides the first thorough account of the often controversial development of Grant Park, including its many physical and cultural features, the numerous important events staged in the park, and the people involved in its evolution." - Irving Cutler, author of Chicago: Metropolis of the Mid-Continent"What happens when a historian visits a park and then starts the thought process rolling? What happened here? How has the landscape changed over time? How does the city appear in this showcase parcel of land? Does the real city differ from its ‘front yard’ presentation? Cremin’s answers to such questions, in text and pictures, will provide an enriched vista the next time one walks through Grant Park." - Gerald A. Danzer, author of Illinois: A History in PicturesTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Early Park History: Lake, Land, and Place 1 2. Lake Park: A Cultural and Civic Center 3. The World’s Columbian Exposition and Chicago’s Cultural Flowering 4. Making the White City Permanent 5. The New Design 6. Gateway and Cultural Center: From a Century of Progress to Postwar Park 7. Parking Lots, Protests, and Mayhem: Grant Park in the Daley Era 8. The Park Reenvisioned and Renewed Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press Design After Decline How America Rebuilds
Book SynopsisIn Design After Decline, Brent D. Ryan chronicles the fraught and intermittently successful rebuilding of Detroit and Philadelphia in recent decades, concluding that small-scale strategies must give way to a revived combination of innovative urban design and social planning.Trade Review"A great read, a valuable contribution to current planning discourses on shrinking cities. This is a book that will be noticed not only in the United States but also abroad." * Journal of the American Planning Association *"Brent D. Ryan has produced a well-written and well-researched narrative about the development of many older American cities. Especially, the case studies about Detroit and Philadelphia are as interesting to read as they are well documented." * Journal of Housing and the Built Environment *"Design After Decline is an important addition to the study of urbanism 'after the fall.' Ryan brings to this surprisingly little-researched topic an impressive expertise in planning as well as a belief in the social impact of good urban design. As he shows, the many failures and few hard-won victories of late twentieth-century urbanism must be understood if we are to recover a genuine American urbanism in the course of the twenty-first century." * Robert Fishman, University of Michigan *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. "The Burden Has Passed": Urban Design After Urban Renewal Chapter 2. Shrinkage or Renewal? The Fate of Older Cities, 1950-90 Chapter 3. "People Want These Houses": The Suburbanization of Detroit Chapter 4. "Another Tradition in Planning": The Suburbanization of North Philadelphia Chapter 5. Toward Social Urbanism for Shrinking Cities Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press The University and Urban Revival
Book SynopsisIn the last quarter of the twentieth century, urban colleges and universities found themselves enveloped by the poverty, crime, and physical decline that afflicted American cities. Some institutions turned inward, trying to insulate themselves rather than address the problems in their own backyards. Others attempted to develop better community relations, though changes were hard to sustain.Spurred by an unprecedented crime wave in 1996, University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin knew that the time for urgent action had arrived, and she set a new course of proactive community engagement for her university. Her dedication to the revitalization of West Philadelphia was guided by her role not only as president but also as a woman and a mother with a deep affection for her hometown.The goal was to build capacity back into a severely distressed inner-city neighborhood—educational capacity, retail capacity, quality-of-life capacity, and especially economic capacityTrade Review"The incredible change that the University of Pennsylvania experienced under Judith Rodin's tenure mirrored that of the city of Philadelphia's. As Penn transformed the face of West Philadelphia and helped the city meets its educational and economic challenges, the city itself became more livable and a better place. President Rodin's reach not only transformed a great university but helped in the revival of one of American's oldest and proudest cities." * Edward G. Rendell, Governor, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and former Mayor, City of Philadelphia *"Rodin's daring launch of the West Philadelphia Initiatives helped reclaim and transform Penn's neighborhood. Here she illuminates both the ugliness and the nobility of these hard-fought campaigns, exploring the grievances and ultimately shedding light on the glory of collaborating on issues of paramount importance to citizens: their houses, businesses, and the places and spaces where they come together." * John Sexton, President, New York University *"At a time when many urban academic institutions raised fences and erected buildings with forbidding walls to protect their staff and students from encroaching crime, the University of Pennsylvania and President Judith Rodin questioned how this approach would benefit the institution in the long run. Rodin's account of the university's ground-breaking initiatives to embrace and reinvigorate the surrounding neighborhood shows how anchor institutions must operate in the 21st century if they are to remain competitive." * Marc H. Morial, President and CEO, National Urban League and former Mayor, City of New Orleans *"The University and Urban Revival tells how one university developed state-of-the-art urban revitalization practices by applying the very theories it teaches. Penn's West Philadelphia Initiatives have remade University City into a thriving, economically and ethnically diverse urban center. Rodin offers lessons for all anchor institutions interested in fostering neighborhood-level change." * Dr. Edward J. Blakely, Executive Director, Office of Recovery Management, City of New Orleans *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of
Book SynopsisIn the history of planning, the design of an entire community prior to its construction is among the oldest traditions. Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change explores the twenty-first-century fortunes of planned communities around the world. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, the editors and contributors examine what happened to planned communities after their glory days had passed and they became vulnerable to pressures of growth, change, and even decline.Beginning with Robert Owen''s industrial village in Scotland and concluding with Robert Davis''s neotraditional resort haven in Florida, this book documents the effort to translate optimal design into sustaining a common life that works for changing circumstances and new generations of residents. Basing their approach on historical research and practical, on-the-ground considerations, the essayists argue that preservation efforts succeed best when they build upon foundational planning pTrade Review"This book is a welcome addition to the understanding of planned communities...[D]ecision makers and stakeholders with iconic planned communities can learn much abpit building stronger, more equitable, and more resilient places." * Historical Geography *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Toward Critical Resilience in Iconic Planned Communities —Mary Corbin Sies, Isabelle Gournay, and Robert Freestone Chapter 1. New Lanark: Sustaining Robert Owen's Legacy in Scotland —John Minnery Chapter 2. Riverside: The First Comprehensively Designed Suburban Community in the United States —David Schuyler Chapter 3. English Garden Cities: Challenges of Conservation and Change —Mervyn Miller Chapter 4. Uplands: A Residential Park in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada —Larry McCann Chapter 5. Menteng: Heritage of a Planned Community in a Southeast Asian Megacity —Christopher Silver Chapter 6. Colonel Light Gardens: History, Heritage, and the Enduring Garden Suburb in Adelaide, South Australia —Christine Garnaut and Robert Freestone Chapter 7. Den-en Chōfu: The First Japanese "Garden City" —André Sorensen and Shun-ichi J. Watanabe Chapter 8. The Jardim América and Pacaembu Garden Suburbs: Facing the Changes to the Metropolis of São Paulo —Maria Cristina da Silva Leme and Carlos Roberto Monteiro de Andrade Chapter 9. Garbatella: Heritage, Gentrification, and Public Policies in Rome, Italy —Sandra Annunziata Chapter 10. Sunnyside Gardens and Radburn: The Common Legacy and Divergent Experiences of Community Life —John J. Pittari Jr. Chapter 11. Cité Frugès: Le Corbusier's Paradoxical Appropriation in Pessac, France —Gilles Ragot Chapter 12. The Römerstadt Settlement: The "New Life" in Frankfurt am Main, Germany —Susan R. Henderson Chapter 13. Soweto: Planning for Apartheid and Preserving the Garden City Townships of Johannesburg, South Africa —Angel David Nieves Chapter 14. Wythenshawe: Manchester's Municipal Garden City —James Hopkins and Michael Hebbert Chapter 15. Sabaudia: Foundation, Growth, and Critical Memory in the Last Italian City —Jean-François Lejeune Chapter 16. Greenbelt: Sustaining the New Deal Legacy —Mary Corbin Sies and Isabelle Gournay Chapter 17. Baťovany-Partizánske: A Functionalist Company Town in Slovakia —Alena Kubova-Gauché and Isabelle Gournay Chapter 18. Tapiola: From Garden City to National Landscape Icon in Finland —Arnold R. Alanen Chapter 19. Seaside: Iconic Community of the New Urbanism —Steven W. Hurtt Chapter 20. Iconic Planned Communities: The Power of Visual Representations —Isabelle Gournay Chapter 21. Afterword: Lessons of the Iconic Planned Community —R. Bruce Stephenson List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
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Rutgers University Press Theorizing the City The New Urban Anthropology
Book SynopsisThis text presents 12 cross cultural case studies, written from an anthropological perspective, focussing on the analysis of space and place. They present theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization, and architecture.Trade ReviewTheorizing the City is a collection of articles in urban anthropology focusing on the relationship between spatial environs and urban cultures from Toronto, Atlanta, and New York to Barcelona, Spo Paulo, Vienna, and Accra (Ghana). Bringing together urban theory and fieldwork, the contributors examine a number of tensions that play out in diverse urban settings. . . . The use of theory helps to bring about some rich connections between the spatial environment and the experiential elements of city life in different parts of the world. * Social Service Review *The best æreadersÆ have three characteristics: the individual selections are of excellent quality, felicitous editing ensures that the selections cohere, and the whole is introduced by a majestic (or at least competent) overview of the field. By this measure, Setha Low has produced a very useful text and one which I will certainly recommend to students. . . . Without exception, the chapters are well written and are likely to provide a sound basis for discussion within class. * JRAI *Taken together, this volume represents a valuable collection of essays that do well to capture the contemporary state of urban anthropology, as well as providing useful theoretical frameworks and methodological examples for understanding and writing about the city. . . . The essays collected here judiciously integrate the particular analytic powers of ethnographic and historical analysis to frame local social processes within transnational and global processes. . . . In particular, this volumeùand the images of the city Low offersùmay serve as an excellent resource for teachers interested in provoking students to think about and understand the cities they (may) inhabit. * H-Urban *These informative essays make clear that anthropology has much to offer to urban theory and public policy debates. -- Nancy Foner * author of From Ellis Islands to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration *Using rich comparative material, this volume presents an intriguing anthropological vision of how cities are shaped. A major addition to a comparative anthropology of cities, this volume demonstrates the complex structural and cultural forces that shape urban experience. -- Judith Goode * professor of anthropology and urban studies, Temple University *Theorizing the City has become fundamental reading for those students of urban society and culture who wish to better understand twentieth-century city forms and spaces, as well as why certain race, gender, age, and class inequalities continue to be manifested today. -- Alejandro Lugo * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments and Permissions Introduction. Theorizing the City - Setha M. Low Part 1 The Divided City 1 The Changing Significance of Race and Class in an African American Community - Steven M. Gregory 2 Creating Family Forms: The Exclusion of Mena and Teenage Boys from Families in the New York City Shelter System, 1987-1991 - Ida Susser 3 Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation - Teresa P. R. Caldeira Part 2 The Contested City 4 Spatializing Culture: The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica - Setha M. Low 5 Landscape and Power in Vienna: Gardens of Discovery - Robert Rotenberg Part 3 The Global City 6 Personal Relations and Divergent Economies: A Case Study of Hong Kong Investment in South China - Josephine Smart and Alan Smart 7 Wholesale Sushi: Culture and Commodity in Tokyo's Tsukiji Market - Theodore C. Bestor Part 4 The Modernist City 8 The Modernist City and the Death of the Street - James Holston 9 The Power of Space in the Evolution of an Accra Zongo - Deborah Pellow Part 5 The Postmodern City 10 Making Place in the Nonplace Urban Realm: Notes on the Revitalization of Downtown Atlanta - Charles Rutheiser 11 Discourses of the City: Policy and Responses in Post-Transitional Barcelona - Gary McDonogh 12 Spatial Discourses and Social Boundaries: Re-imagining the Toronto Waterfront - Matthew Cooper Biological Notes Index
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Rutgers University Press Metroburbia USA
Book SynopsisAddresses key areas of concern and importance to urban planners and suburban residents including McMansions, traffic disasters, house design, homeowner's associations, and big box stores. Through the inclusion of examples and photos, this work creates an accessible portrait of the suburbs supported by data, anecdotes, and social theory.Trade ReviewThis book is a major contribution to the literature of urban geography, urban planning, and urban studies. It is one of the first to bring the field of U.S. urbanization into the twenty-first century. Knox's interpretations make excellent sense of the new metropolitan scene. -- Peter O. Muller * professor of geography, University of Miami *This scathing and thought-provoking critique of the latest additions to the built environment in the US is superbly done. Highly recommended. * Choice *àlively, excoriating book... * Journal of the American Planning Association *Table of ContentsIntroduction Prelude : the serial enchantment of suburbia Metroburbia and the anatomy of the new metropolis Developers' utopias Comfortably numb : degenerate utopias and evangelistic consultants The politics of privatism Material culture and society in metroburbia Vulgaria : moral landscapes at the leading edges of the new metropolis
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Rutgers University Press Regional Planning for a Sustainable America How
Book SynopsisRegional Planning for a Sustainable America is the first book to represent the great variety of today's effective regional planning programs, analyzing dozens of regional initiatives across North America. The American landscape is being transformed by poorly designed, sprawling development. This sprawland its wasteful resource use, traffic, and pollutiondoes not respect arbitrary political boundaries like city limits and state borders. Yet for most of the nation, the patterns of development and conservation are shaped by fragmented, parochial local governments and property developers focused on short-term economic gain. Regional planning provides a solution, a means to manage human impacts on a large geographic scale that better matches the natural and economic forces at work. By bringing together the expertise of forty-two practitioners and academics, this book provides a practical guide to the key strategies that regional planners are using to achieve truly sustainable growth.Trade Review"The combination of thorough analysis and the contributors' specificity make this an extremely valuable resource for planners seeking ways to promote regionalism." * Planning *"an emporium of regional planning initiatives and concepts, well organized for people who suspect a regional initiative would facilitate sustainable human communities or adaptive natural environments in their region. Regional Planning for a Sustainable America offers a broad look at a phenomenon that has many contexts and variations, and it delivers a valuable chronicle and assessment of an experiment that is half-finished and still ongoing." * Journal of Regional Science *Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART I: Mandatory Plans1. Regional Growth Management in the Portland Metropolitan Area2. Regional Planning for the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area3. Restoring the Tahoe Region with Comprehensive Regional Planning4. Ontario’s Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe5. Adirondack Park: The Great Conservation Experiment6. Pinelands National Reserve: Saving a Unique Ecosystem in the Nation’s Most Densely Developed State7. Planning for Tomorrow in the Highlands of New Jersey8. Restoration, Conservation, and Economy in the New Jersey Meadowlands9. Changing the Land Use Paradigm to Save New York’s Central Pine Barrens10. Cape Cod: Protecting a Land of Sand and WaterPART II: Collaborative and Voluntary Planning Initiatives11. Integrated Planning for a Sustainable Future in Puget Sound12. Integrated Land Use, Transportation, and Air Quality Planning in Sacramento13. Envision Utah: Building Communities on Values14. Regional Planning in Florida15. Regional Planning for Livable Communities in Atlanta16. From the Mountains to the Sea: Maryland’s Smart Growth Program17. Raising the Bar at the Chesapeake Bay Program18. The Political Dead Zone in Chesapeake Bay19. Regional Planning at a County Scale in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania20. Land Use and Infrastructure Planning in the Greater Philadelphia Region21. Regional Planning for the Delaware River22. Planning for Sustainable Agriculture, Forestry, and Biodiversity in MainePART III: Society, Economics, and Regional Planning23. Regions for Climate Resiliency24. Megaregion Planning and High-Speed Rail25. The Economic Benefits of Regional Planning26. Serving the Environment and Economy through Regional Planning27. Promoting Fiscal Equity and Efficient Development Practices at the Metropolitan Scale28. But Where Will People Live? Regional Planning and Affordable HousingPART IV : Land Acquisition and Regional Planning29. Ecoregional Conservation: A Comprehensive Approach to Conserving Biodiversity30. Saving the Chesapeake Bay through Regional Land Conservation31. Creating Synergy with Regional Planning and Conservation EasementsPART V: Envisioning the Region32. Creating a Regional Vision for Regional Planning33. Visioning SacramentoConclusion: Fulfilling the Promise of Regional PlanningReferencesOnline ResourcesIndex
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Rutgers University Press Deconstructing the High Line Postindustrial
Book SynopsisThe High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is one of the world's most iconic new urban landmarks. Deconstructing the High Line is the first book to analyse the High Line from multiple perspectives, critically assessing its aesthetic, economic, ecological, symbolic, and social impacts.Trade Review"Friends of the High Line has also been trying to make up for lost time, launching arts and jobs initiatives with residents of nearby public housing. Danya Sherman, former director of public programs, education, and community engagement for Friends of the High Line, details these efforts in her contribution to Deconstructing the High Line, a series of essays by academics, architects, and those involved in the making of the elevated park... Before the High Line proffered progressivism through its programming, other contributors to the book note, it cast cold, hard capitalism in concrete. In recent years, mountains of ink have been spilled about how the ills facing contemporary New York and cities around the globe have been exacerbated by the High Line's complicity ... Other books about the High Line either don't engage these critiques or only do so through the eyes of Hammond and Friends of the High Line co-founder Josua David." * The Village Voice *"Deconstructing the High Line is a timely, insightful, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary study that dares to critically examine the widely celebrated High Line from a variety of social, political, and cultural perspectives." -- Dora Apel * author of Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline *"At last! A smart book on the High Line that places it critically in both a local and a global frame! Since the High Line has quickly become a global pace maker among local place makers, this critical, multidimensional view is absolutely necessary to understand the political forces and aesthetic displacements that are reshaping our cities and our lives." -- Sharon Zukin * author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places *"This book teaches us that an all-inclusive approach from the point of view of urban theory is needed to better understand the effects of projects of urban, social and economic 'improvement.'" * Urbanistica informazioni *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments High Line Timeline Introduction: From Elevated Railway to Urban Park Brian Rosa and Christoph Lindner Part I Envisioning the High Line Chapter 1 Hunt’s Haunts James Corner Chapter 2 Community Engagement, Equity, and the High Line Danya Sherman Chapter 3 Loving the High Line: Infrastructure, Architecture, and the Politics of Space in the Mediated City Alan Smart Part II Gentrification and the Neoliberal City Chapter 4 Parks for Profit: Public Space and Inequality in New York City Kevin Loughran Chapter 5 Parks (In)Equity Julian Brash Chapter 6 Retro-Walking New York Christoph Lindner Part III Urban Political Ecologies Chapter 7 The Garden on the Machine Tom Baker Chapter 8 The Urban Sustainability Fix and the Rise of the Conservancy Park Phil Birge-Liberman Chapter 9 Of Success and Succession: A Queer Urban Ecology of the High Line Darren J. Patrick Part IV The High Line Effect Chapter 10 A High Line for Queens: Celebrating Diversity or Displacing It? Scott Larson Chapter 11 Programming Difference on Rotterdam’s Hofbogen Daan Wesselman Chapter 12 Public Space and Terrain Vague on São Paulo’s Minhocão: The High Line in Translation Nate Millington Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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Rutgers University Press Deconstructing the High Line Postindustrial
Book SynopsisThe High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is one of the world's most iconic new urban landmarks. Deconstructing the High Line is the first book to analyse the High Line from multiple perspectives, critically assessing its aesthetic, economic, ecological, symbolic, and social impacts.Trade Review"Friends of the High Line has also been trying to make up for lost time, launching arts and jobs initiatives with residents of nearby public housing. Danya Sherman, former director of public programs, education, and community engagement for Friends of the High Line, details these efforts in her contribution to Deconstructing the High Line, a series of essays by academics, architects, and those involved in the making of the elevated park... Before the High Line proffered progressivism through its programming, other contributors to the book note, it cast cold, hard capitalism in concrete. In recent years, mountains of ink have been spilled about how the ills facing contemporary New York and cities around the globe have been exacerbated by the High Line's complicity ... Other books about the High Line either don't engage these critiques or only do so through the eyes of Hammond and Friends of the High Line co-founder Josua David." * The Village Voice *"Deconstructing the High Line is a timely, insightful, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary study that dares to critically examine the widely celebrated High Line from a variety of social, political, and cultural perspectives." -- Dora Apel * author of Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline *"At last! A smart book on the High Line that places it critically in both a local and a global frame! Since the High Line has quickly become a global pace maker among local place makers, this critical, multidimensional view is absolutely necessary to understand the political forces and aesthetic displacements that are reshaping our cities and our lives." -- Sharon Zukin * author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places *"This book teaches us that an all-inclusive approach from the point of view of urban theory is needed to better understand the effects of projects of urban, social and economic 'improvement.'" * Urbanistica informazioni *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments High Line Timeline Introduction: From Elevated Railway to Urban Park Brian Rosa and Christoph Lindner Part I Envisioning the High Line Chapter 1 Hunt’s Haunts James Corner Chapter 2 Community Engagement, Equity, and the High Line Danya Sherman Chapter 3 Loving the High Line: Infrastructure, Architecture, and the Politics of Space in the Mediated City Alan Smart Part II Gentrification and the Neoliberal City Chapter 4 Parks for Profit: Public Space and Inequality in New York City Kevin Loughran Chapter 5 Parks (In)Equity Julian Brash Chapter 6 Retro-Walking New York Christoph Lindner Part III Urban Political Ecologies Chapter 7 The Garden on the Machine Tom Baker Chapter 8 The Urban Sustainability Fix and the Rise of the Conservancy Park Phil Birge-Liberman Chapter 9 Of Success and Succession: A Queer Urban Ecology of the High Line Darren J. Patrick Part IV The High Line Effect Chapter 10 A High Line for Queens: Celebrating Diversity or Displacing It? Scott Larson Chapter 11 Programming Difference on Rotterdam’s Hofbogen Daan Wesselman Chapter 12 Public Space and Terrain Vague on São Paulo’s Minhocão: The High Line in Translation Nate Millington Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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University of Virginia Press War Diaries
Book SynopsisFocusing on regions where planners, architects, and artists are involved in concrete initiatives on the ground, War Diaries looks at complex postwar settings to illuminate design responses to urban warfare and violence against the built environment.Trade ReviewSharing voices across disciplines, this interesting and important collection foregrounds the designer’s role in the political conversations that dominate postconflict work."- Emily Gunzburger Makaš, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, author of Urban and National Identities and the Rebuilding of MostarTable of Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: Critical Themes of Design after Destruction 1. On Urban Postconflict Development: Toward a Practice-Oriented Research Agenda 2. Ivan Štraus: War Diary and Design Intentions of an Architect in Postwar Sarajevo 3. Normalizing War: The Aesthetics of National Resilience 4. Scars of War and Reconstruction in Lebanon 5. ""Simple Plans"" and Complex Lives: A Dialogue about Planning and Designing Emergency Settlements 6. Designing Emergency Architecture 7. Teaching Culturally Sensitive Design Conclusion: Reconceptualizing Design after Destruction Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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University of Minnesota Press Manhattan Atmospheres Architecture the Interior
Book SynopsisDuring Manhattan's crisis years between the 1960s and early 1980s, the city's great park networks, sanitarian projects of light, air, and water, and its monumental public works were falling apart. Images of flooded streets, blackened air, collapsed highways, and burning buildings characterize our understanding of the city's landscape throughTrade Review"Drawing on the theoretical concepts of assemblages and socio-natures, David Gissen uses a number of important case studies to reflect transformations in New York City’s urban environment, focusing squarely on shifts in power during the city’s post-industrial context. By mixing architecture with geography, his keen eye makes a convincing, innovative argument about the importance of ‘maintenance.’" —Julie Sze, author of Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental JusticeTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: From Urban Nature to the Maintenance Environment1. Protection: Megastructures and Environmental Gentrification2. Growth: Corporate Atriums and the Cultivation of Urban Nature3. Preservation: Territories of Culture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art4. Exchange: The Communication Environments of FinanceEpilogue: Re-imagining MaintenanceNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Folklore of the Freeway
Book SynopsisTrade Review "Eric Avila's in-depth research and his sheer passionate commitment to the subject should make this one of the rare books that succeeds in replacing a widely-accepted narrative." —Robert Fishman, University of Michigan"A must-read cultural history of the 'invisible freeway revolts' through which city people of color have demanded social justice in the midst of aggressive urban reforms. Avila provides timely lessons for scholars and urban planners, pointing us to pay closer attention to the aesthetic and expressive forms of these protests, so necssary to achieve spatial justice in American cities." —Arlene Davila, New York University"The Folklore of the Freeway fuses art and public policy in a graceful narrative."—KCET- LA Letters"Each chapter is rich with details rarely considered, challenging readers to rethink their understanding of growth and development"—CHOICE"Avila’s book is critically important for placing communities of color at the center of the narrative of anti-highway activism. In showing us that culture is affected by political activities like highway construction, he makes a welcome intervention into a historical topic that has often ignored culture and suggests areas for further research."—American Studies Journal"Avila’s work is an important history of the modernist city and its discontents, transforming the narrative of the freeway revolt."—Journal of American History"Eric Avila . . . has written a thoughtful account of the impact of the construction of the American Interstate highway system on the urban barrios and ghettos it often traversed."—Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review"The Folklore of the Freeway makes the invisible freeway revolt not only visible, but vivid, clear, and indisputable."—Buildings & Settlements"The Folklore of the Freeway offers a provocative account of the cultural history of the freeway in the American city, which interweaves past and present into a compelling narrative that challenges urban scholars to rethink the basic points of reference that have framed the storyline of the freeway revolt."—Urban Studies"Avila’s book serves not only as a reminder of the role that race and political power played in the placement of urban highways, but as call to remake the highway system more justly."—Planning PerspectivesTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Invisible Freeway Revolt1. The Master’s Plan: The Rise and Fall of the Modernist City2. “Nobody But a Bunch of Mothers”: Fighting the Highwaymen During Feminism’s Second Wave3. Communities Lost and Found: The Politics of Historical Memory4. A Matter of Perspective: The Racial Politics of Seeing the Freeway5. Taking Back the Freeway: Strategies of Adaptation and ImprovisationConclusion: Identity Politics in Post-Interstate AmericaAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Historic Capital
Book SynopsisHistoric CapitalTrade Review"Cameron Logan presents a clear, convincing thesis—that historic preservation was a driver of urban development, politics and culture, not an afterthought or a sideline. His account is compelling and rich; it will appeal to urbanists, historians and preservationists alike. Critically, the history of preservation is framed not as an insular matter or a progressive narrative of preservationist victories. He rightly presents preservation as part of the mix of urban movements (in urban design, poverty alleviation, community organizing, economic development) competing for political attention."—Randall Mason, University of Pennsylvania"Logan’s powerful and provocative work lays a strong foundation for future scholarship that may follow the tantalizing traces he has uncovered."—Journal of American Ethnic History "Logan’s book adds to the growing literature on the history of Washington, D.C. While Washington is often considered an anomaly in the realms of urban studies, architectural history, and historic preservation, Historic Capital and its contemporaries continue to prove that the nation’s capital is not just a destination worthy of a Fourth of July visit. They show that it is instead a true urban center deserving of rigorous analytical research that connects to these various fields, so that one day the case studies outline herein will be a familiar part of the history of historic preservation, urban planning, and real estate."—Buildings & LandscapesTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: From “Life Inside a Monument” to Neighborhoodswith Life1. Value: Property, History and Homeliness in Georgetown2. Taste: Architectural Complexity and Social Diversity in the 1960s3. The White House and Its Neighborhood: Federal City Making and Local Preservation, 1960–19754. Race and Resistance: Gentrification and the Critique of Historic Preservation5. Whose Neighborhood? Whose History? Expanding Dupont Circle, 1975–19856. Rhodes Tavern and the Problem with Preservation in the 1980s7. Modernist Urbanism as History: Preserving the Southwest Urban Renewal Area Conclusion: Preservation, Profits and LossAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Construction of Equality
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Construction of Equality is a timely and provocative book that makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the social and spatial politics of immigration and suburban development in Europe from the postwar period to the present, admirably complicating and enriching our understanding of both Europe and the Middle East."—Sheila Crane, University of Virginia"The first Syriacs—members of a Christian minority from Turkey and the Middle East—arrived in Sweden as refugees a half-century ago. Jennifer Mack has been notably versatile in combining participant observation with a wide range of other materials to offer this rich portrayal of the community in its changing habitat. At a time of dramatic crisis reporting about new refugee streams, it is good to learn about how one group has made its way over time."—Ulf Hannerz, author of Writing Future Worlds "Its approach to the Swedish welfare state, social democratic urban planning, and basic ideas on migration policies is thought-provoking and raises many important questions."—EuropeNow Journal "This is an important, rich work that challenges currently dominant thoughts on Swedish suburban development."—Antipode "The book not only shows the multiple facets of power relationships encountered by members of ethnic communities, but also provides significant arguments for the analysis of vernacular uses of spaces in their tasks. The Construction of Equality can be an important tool for understanding the cultural issues and political stakes that many professionals are confronted with when they try to involve refugees, immigrants, and ethnic communities in city development."—Buildings & Landscapes "The book is well written and easy to follow and has carefully integrated illustrations."—Journal of Planning Education and Research Table of ContentsContentsPreface Introduction: Urban Design from Below1. Standards and Separatism: The Swedish Million Program, Syriac Enclaves, and Equality2. Visible Cities, Invisible Citizens: Service and Citizenship in the Centrum3. Making Mesopotälje: Sacred and Profane “Diaspora Space” in the City4. “Södertälje Is a Theater”: The Performance of Propriety and Ritual Infrastructure5. Greetings from Hollywood! Enclaves, Participation, and Dialogue from the Ghetto to the Mansion6. Safety in Numbers: Tolerance and Norms in Syriac DesignConclusion: The New PeripheryAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Georgia Press Architecture of the Last Colony
Book SynopsisSurveys the most important extant buildings in the state of Georgia, focusing on structures that showcase successful historic preservation practices and techniques. Richly illustrated with colour, large-format photographs, this book tells the story of how Georgia’s built environment reflects its growth from 1733 to the present.Trade ReviewA stunningly beautiful compendium distinguished by lush photography and informative, polished prose. No lover of Georgia's historic architecture should miss this book!" - John S. Sledge, author An Ornament to the City: Old Mobile Ironwork"On the occasion of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation's fiftieth anniversary, it is important to remember and pay tribute to those who have labored to build the places that are central to Georgia's communities and economy. This book provides motivation and a call to action to keep preserving so that future generations can continue to learn and make informed decisions for the future." - Laura McCarty, president, Georgia Humanities
£58.08
Duke University Press Monrovia Modern
Book SynopsisDanny Hoffman uses the ruins of four iconic modernist buildings in Monrovia, Liberia as a way to explore the relationship between the built environment and political imagination, showing how these former symbols of modernist nation building transformed into representations of the challenges that Monrovia's residents face.Trade Review“Monrovia Modern is a beautiful and perceptive book. It will appeal to both architecture and anthropology scholars concerned with ruins, violence, material culture, photography and West African politics.” -- Pauline Destree * Allegra Lab *"A beautiful book that weaves together urban theory, architectural comprehension, photographic excellence, and rich anthropological immersion in the lives of Monrovians. . . . Few books are as ambitious or as creative as this one. . . . Monrovia Modern will likely inspire scholars looking to combine photography, architectural design and critical social theory." -- Jeffrey W. Paller * Journal of Modern African Studies *"Brave venture of a book. . . . A pioneering work in the way it combines different methods, media, and disciplines. . . . Hoffman’s newest is a beautiful work that one truly enjoys reading." -- Ilmari Käihkö * Anthropos *"Danny Hoffman provides us with new empirical insights on West Africa, and a fascinating and original way of thinking the city that can inspire future scholarship." -- Maarten Bedert * African Studies Review *"Hoffman’s book encourages fruitful thought about the politics of architecture and urban dwelling. . . This volume is rewarding reading." -- Anne S. Lewinson * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“Monrovia Modern is a testament to the complexities of the relationships humans hold with their creations and offers a rare perspective on those connections after the destruction of war has altered their form and functionality.... The book will be of interest to Africanists of all disciplines, but especially urban anthropologists, geographers, and students of architecture.” -- Barbara Hoffman * Africa Today *Table of ContentsIllustrations xiii Preface xvii Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction 1 1. Live Dangerously, My Brothers: Ex-Combatants and the Political Economy of Space 33 2. The Ministry of Defense: Excessive Architecture 61 3. E. J. Roye: The Corporate (Post)Modern 91 4. Hotel Africa: The Uncritical Ruin 115 5. Liberia Broadcasting System: Three Utopias 143 6. Finding Urban Form: A Coda 175 Notes 183 References 189 Index 203
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University of Pittsburgh Press Pittsburgh A New Portrait
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University of Pittsburgh Press The City Natural
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University of Pittsburgh Press A Mighty Capital Under Threat The Environmental History of London 18002000 History of the Urban Environment
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University of Pittsburgh Press Designing Titos Capital
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University of Hawai'i Press Seoul
Book SynopsisInterrogates the contested history and physical remnants of Seoul, tacking between the city's historiography and architecture, with attention to monuments, streets, and other urban spaces. The book's structuring device is the dichotomy of erasure and memory as necessary preconditions for reinvention.
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University of Hawai'i Press Citizen Designs CityMaking and Democracy in
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to design democratic cities and democratic citizens in a time of mass urbanization and volatile political transformation? Citizen Designsaddresses this question by exploring the ways that democratic urban planning projects intersect with emerging political aspirations among squatters living in the Thai city of Khon Kaen.Trade ReviewCitizen Designs is a fascinating and detailed ethnographic account of the citizenship struggles and political engagements of residents living alongside the main state railway running through the city of Kohn Kaen, in the Isan region of Northeast Thailand. While most scholarship on urban evictions and dispossession tends to portray land struggles as a kind of Manichean battle between good (the residents) and evil (the dispossessors), Elinoff shows how every group of people itself contains multiple sub-groups, all coming at the matter with different agendas, ideas, political sympathies." - Erik Harms, Yale University
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University of Hawai'i Press Citizen Designs
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to design democratic cities and democratic citizens in a time of mass urbanization and volatile political transformation? Citizen Designs addresses this question by exploring the ways that democratic urban planning projects intersect with emerging political aspirations among squatters in the Thai city of Khon Kaen.
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University of Hawai'i Press Becoming Landowners
Book SynopsisAcross Melanesia, the ways in which people connect to land are being transformed. Melanesian peoples are becoming landowners, this book argues, in the sense that these processes of change compel forms of property relations, and that ‘landowner’ and ‘custom landowner’ become identities to be wielded against both state and capital.
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CABI Publishing Land Use Changes in Tropical Watersheds
Book SynopsisThis book studies land use change in tropical landscapes, with particular emphasis on the economic processes that influence rates of land degradation and forest clearing. Multidisciplinary contributions draw lessons from a rich, decade-long collection of economic, social and environmental data on the Manupali upland watershed in the southern Philippines. Through this detailed case study the book documents forces leading to land use changes, in particular the potential impacts of institutional evolution and policy reforms, and highlights interrelationships between biological, economic, and social phenomena.Table of Contents1: Economic development and watershed degradation, 2: Agricultural development and institutional transitions, 3: Water quality changes in the Manupali River watershed, 4: How do national markets and price policies affect land use at the forest margin?, 5: How do relative price changes alter land use decisions? 6: Economic incentives and agricultural outcomes in upland settings, 7: Simulating soil erosion and sediment yield in small upland watersheds using the WEPP model, 8: Identifying soil erosion hotspots in the Manupali River watershed, 9: Alternatives to traditional annual crop agriculture in the uplands, 10: Linking economic policies and environmental outcomes at a watershed scale, 11: Using Payments for Environmental Services (PES) to assist in watershed management, 12: Conclusions and some directions for future research,
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MP-OSU Oregon State Universi Planning the Portland Urban Growth Boundary The
Book SynopsisArgues that acknowledging the Portland growth boundary in 1979 was the most significant decision the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission has ever made, and, more broadly, is a significant milestone in American land-use planning.
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Cornell University Press Remaking Chicago
Book SynopsisModelled on post-war Chicago, this study of urban economic development argues that cities have many choices for economic development and that a major part in these decisions is played by politics. The author uses research to show the effects local administrations have had on urban based industry.Trade Review"Insightful... Rast clearly proves his thesis and makes a significant contribution to the field of urban politics."—American Political Science Review "Rast mines the rich vein of studies of postwar development practices in downtown Chicago in order to form his critical reassessment of urban development theory."—APA Journal "The knowledge [Rast] generated adds substantially to what is known about Chicago during one of the most sweeping and contentious periods of urban restructuring."—Urban StudiesTable of ContentsTable of Contents 1 The Politics of Urban Economic Development 2 Downtown Redevelopment and the Chicago Political Machine 3 Rethinking Industrial Decline: The Chicago Printing and Apparel Industries 4 Community Economic Development and the Crisis of Machine Politics 5 The Battle for the Near North Side 6 Toward a Citywide Industrial Policy Notes Bibliography Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Making Equity Planning Work
Book SynopsisFrom 1969 to 1979, Cleveland's city planning staff under Norman Krumholz's leadership conducted a unique experiment in equity oriented planning. This book provides a detailed personal account of a sustained and effective equity-planning practice that influenced urban policy.Trade Review"No planner, I predict, will be able to consider his education complete during the next decade or so who has not grappled vicariously with the dilemmas Krumholz faced."—Alan A. Altshuler, from the Foreword"Fascinating, illuminating war stories from the nation's most creative and progressive (ex)municipal planning director, capped by an intelligent and useful set of 'lessons.'"—Chester W. Hartman, Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, and Chair, Planner Network"In this extraordinary book, Norman Krumholz and John Forester team up to enlighten those seeking a progressive approach to planning on how to interpret the Clevland experience. Krumholz provides an analytic chronicle of his role as Cleveland's planning director under three mayors and of his efforts to plan on behalf of the city's impoversithed majority. Forester examines the Cleveland story from the perspective of a planning theorist whose focus is how planning can serve people with relatively little political influence. Together the authors identify the opportunities that exist within the urban governmental structure. They conclude that planning and politics are not antithical and that an astute political strategy depends on sound professionalism. This well-written book is required reading for both students and practitioners of planning." —Susan S. Fainstein, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsForeword - Alan A. Altshuler Preface Part I: Experience 1. Planning in Cleveland 2. Inheriting a Staff and Building a New One 3. Writing the Policy Planning Report 4. Euclid Beach 5. Regional Issues and the Clark Freeway 6. Low-and Moderate-Income Housing 7. Tax Delinquency and Land Banking 8. Regional Transit and a Committed Planning Presence 9. The Downtown People Mover 10. A State Lakefront Park System for Cleveland 11. Helping Cleveland's Neighborhood Organizations 12. Improving Planning, Management, and Administration in Other City Agencies Part II: Lessons 13. Possibilities 14. To Be Professsionally Effective, Be Politically Articulate 15. Evaluation, Ethics, and Traps Index
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Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection Segregation and Resistance in the Landscapes of
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Ohio University Press Waterhouses
Book SynopsisThis sweeping history of urban change in Lagos, Nigeria, reveals how its landscapes of waterways and houses have together shaped the modern city.Waterhouses is about the places the people of Lagos have inhabited, imagined, and made home for the past two centuries. It asks what a house in Lagos is and explores how the answer to that question has been historically constructed and reconstructed in turn with the city's changing landscapes. Written for historians of African and Atlantic history, scholars and practitioners of urbanism, and anyone looking to make sense of Africa's most populous metropolis today, the book is an approachable history of how houses and water have formed modern Lagos. The book argues that in the coastlands from which Lagos rose, housing architectures were the single most important social, material, and political instruments for people hoping to contour the city's landscapesboth its ecology and its imageand its historical course. The for
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Ohio University Press Waterhouses
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Historic Town Plans of Lincoln 16101920
Book SynopsisThis book collects together early maps of Lincoln, and demonstrates their importance in describing the changing geography of this historic city, and also the development of cartography and its increasing application of scientifictechniques for improved accuracy and precision. Speed published the earliest surviving map of the area in 1610; his work was followed in 1722 by that of William Stukeley, whose map concentrates on historical features. The nineteenth century saw Lincoln mapped a number of times, by William Marrat (1814-17) and shortly afterwards by James Sandby Padley and the Ordnance Survey. It was the electoral reforms of the 1830s that drove the next map-makers to defineward and parish boundaries, the details of which required a larger scale than previous works. Then in 1842 Padley published his remarkable Large Map of Lincoln. The collection ends with the OS map of 1920, a detailed record of the city scaled at six inches to the mile, where modern Lincoln is clearly visible.Trade ReviewThe chief glory of this book is the section which reproduces thirteen plans of the city in high-quality colour. [.] A useful resource for the academic scholar and anyone with an interest in the history of the city. * EAST MIDLAND HISTORIAN *A delight.. The maps are superbly produced and, like any old map, deserve close study with a magnifying glass. [Lincoln] Record Society is to be congratulated on publishing such a fine volume. * ARCHIVES *This collection provides the reader with all the detailed information of the city in the nineteenth century that can possibly be mapped. It provides a model which other county record societies might well follow. * THE LOCAL HISTORIAN *
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Edward Elgar Publishing Decolonizing Industrial Heritage
Book SynopsisThis timely book explores the adaptive reuse of industrial heritage through the lenses of decolonization and climate resilience. Author Asma Mehan presents a critical framework for understanding and reinvigorating industrial remains as evolving infrastructures that foster ecological and social transformation.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Reconnecting the City
Book SynopsisHistoric Urban Landscape is a new approach to urban heritage management, promoted by UNESCO, and currently one of the most debated issues in the international preservation community. However, few conservation practitioners have a clear understanding of what it entails, and more importantly, what it can achieve.Trade Review“I highly recommend the comprehensive and landmark book The Historic Urban Landscape: Managing Heritage in an Urban Century by Francesco Bandarin and Ron Van Oers, to any architects, urban planners, surveyors, engineers, policy makers, business leaders, and urban conservation societies who are seeking a complete overview of the intellectual developments in urban conservation. This book provides a thoughtful and practical approach that will benefit the urban conservation efforts around the world in the twenty-first century.” (Blog Business World, 29 May 2012)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements xi Preface xiii Contributors xix About the Companion Website xxix Introduction: Urban Conservation and the End of Planning 1 Francesco Bandarin Post-War Attempts to Reconnect the City 3 Contemporary Views on Urbanism and Landscape 7 Repositioning Urban Conservation, Reconnecting the City 11 SECTION 1 The Layered Dimension of Urban Conservation 17 1. Archaeology: Reading the City through Time 19 Tim Williams Introduction 19 Problems and Issues 21 Challenges to Presenting Archaeological Sites in Modern Urban Landscapes 25 Preservation in situ and Mitigation Strategies 30 Approaches and Potential 35 Archaeological Knowledge and Its Potential Impact on Urban Communities 37 Conclusion 44 2. How Geology Shapes Human Settlements 47 Claudio Margottini and Daniele Spizzichino Introduction 47 Clay-Based Human Settlements 49 Soft Rock-Based Human Settlements 59 Hard Rock-Based Human Settlements 67 Time Variability and Complex Urban Environments 79 Conclusions 84 3. Morphology as the Study of City Form and Layering 85 Stefano Bianca Introduction 85 Origins and Implications of the Term Morphology 86 The Scope of Urban Morphology 87 Methodology and Procedures 88 Advantages and Problems of the Urban Morphology Approach 94 Relevance within the Historic Urban Landscape Concept 98 Interview – Searching for a Chinese Approach to Urban Conservation 103 Wang Shu Case Study – Bologna: From Urban Restoration to Urban Rehabilitation 107 Patrizia Gabellini 4. Historic Cities and Climate Change 113 Anthony Gad Bigio The Emerging Challenges 113 Exposure of World Heritage Cities to Multiple Hazards 115 Historic Cities and Urban Resilience 119 Historic Cities and Climate Change Mitigation 121 Historic Cities and Climate Action Plans: The Case of Edinburgh, Scotland 122 Risks 123 Actions 123 Interview – Looking at the Challenges of the Urban Century 126 Filipe Duarte Santos 5. The Intangible Dimension of Urban Heritage 129 Rohit Jigyasu Introduction 129 Defining Intangible Values in Historic Urban Landscapes 130 Urbanisation Processes and Impacts on Intangible Values 135 Recognition of Intangible Values in Existing Urban Management Systems 136 Documentation and Impact Assessment of Intangible Heritage Values 138 ‘Heritage’ – Elitist or Inclusive? 139 Role of Intangible Heritage in Building Disaster Resilience of Cities 142 Integrating Intangible Heritage Values in Urban Planning and Management 142 Mainstreaming Intangible Heritage Through Sustainable Livelihoods and Cultural Tourism 143 Redefining the Role of Professionals 144 Interview – Interpreting Cultural Landscapes as Expressions of Local Identity 145 Lisa Prosper Case Study – The Traditional Chinese View of Nature and Challenges of Urban Development 148 Feng Han 6. Planning and Managing Historic Urban Landscapes 161 Francesco Siravo Integrated Planning 161 Key Aspects of Analysing and Planning Historic Urban Landscapes 163 Governance: The Case for Public Management in Historic Urban Areas 168 What Kind of Public Institution? 169 Organisational Framework of the Conservation Agency 170 Participatory Planning and Implementation Strategies 171 Conclusion 172 Interview – The Challenge of Urban Transformation 176 Mohsen Mostafavi 7. Cities as Cultural Landscapes 179 Ken Taylor Reflections 179 A Paradigm Shift 180 The Cultural Landscape Model: Landscape as History and Expression of Human Values and Identity 183 Bangkok and the Chao Phraya River 186 Canberra 187 Cultural Landscape Characteristics 187 Urban Identity, Plurality, Sustainable Development Tools for Urban Landscape Planning and Conservation Practice 190 Tools 192 Conclusion 202 SECTION 2 Building the Toolkit 203 8. Evolution of the Normative Framework 205 Jukka Jokilehto Introduction 205 Early Appreciation of Historic Townscape 205 The Development and Impact of Modern City Planning 206 Development of Instruments for Urban Conservation 209 International Recognition of Historic Urban Areas 211 How Normative Frameworks Respond to the Challenges of Change Caused by Urban Development 213 New Tools for the Management of the Historic Urban Landscape 216 9. Civic Engagement Tools for Urban Conservation 221 Julian Smith Introduction 221 Ways of Seeing 222 Cultural Mapping 224 The Concepts of Equilibrium and Resilience 226 Sustainable Diversity 229 Influences of Civic Engagement: Towards Community-Based Design and Development 231 Conclusion 235 Interview – Listening to the People, Promoting Quality of Life 240 His Highness the Aga Khan Case Study – Valuing Cultural Diversity 245 Richard A. Engelhardt 10. Knowledge and Planning Tools 249 Jyoti Hosagrahar Introduction 249 Mapping, Measuring, and Visualising the Urban Landscape 250 Reading and Interpreting the Urban Landscape 251 Protecting, Enhancing, and Improving the Urban Landscape 257 Traditional and Customary Systems of Management 260 Contextualising the Historic Urban Landscape Approach 260 Case Study – Reading the City of Tokyo 261 Hidenobu Jinnai 11. The Role of Regulatory Systems 269 Patricia O’Donnell Defining Regulatory Systems 269 Legal Regulations Directly Addressing Public and Private Lands 270 Legal Regulations with Indirect Infl uence on Urban Heritage 275 Conclusion 278 Interview – Constructing Cultural Significance 279 Rahul Mehrotra 12. Devising Financial Tools for Urban Conservation 283 Donovan Rypkema Introduction 283 Why are Financial Tools Required? 284 What Do Financial Tools Do? 286 What are the Characteristics of the Most Effective Financial Tools? 287 What are Some Examples of Financial Tools and How Do They Work? 288 Conclusion 290 Case Study – A User’s Guide for Heritage Economics 291 Christian Ost Case study – The World Bank’s Tools for Urban Conservation 297 MV Serra 13. Researching and Mapping the Historic Urban Landscape 301 Michael Turner and Rachel Singer Introduction 301 The Diverse City 303 Methodologies and Tools 305 The Role of University Research 309 The Role of UNESCO Chairs 310 The Role of Category 2 Centres (C2C) 310 Conclusion 311 Interview – Heritage and the Metropolis 313 Rem Koolhaas Conclusion: The Way Forward: An Agenda for Reconnecting the City 317 Ron van Oers Managing the City as a Living Heritage 317 Identity and Sense of Place 318 Local Heritage and Corporate Image 319 The City as Repository of Urban Experiences 321 Integrating Disciplines and Professional Practices 322 Future Challenges of Urban Conservation 324 The Critical Path: Historic Urban Landscape Action Plan 326 Historic Urban Landscape: A Stepped Approach 326 Interdisciplinary Context and Operational Coordination 328 A 20-Point Research Agenda for Planners and Designers 329 Index 333
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Urban Design for an Urban Century
Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive introduction to urban design, from a historical overview and basic principles to practical design concepts and strategies. It discusses the demographic, environmental, economic, and social issues that influence the decision-making and implementation processes of urban design. The Second Edition has been fully revised to include thorough coverage of sustainability issues and to integrate new case studies into the core concepts discussed.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction ix Urban Design: A Social and Civic Art ix Chapter 1 Roots of Western Urban Form: Centralization 1 First Cities 1 Rebirth of European Cities: “Organic” Cities of the Late Middle Ages 3 Reintroduction of Classical Learning: “Geometric” Cities of the Renaissance 5 The Emergence of Merchant Cities: Integrating Renaissance Ideas and the Marketplace 9 The Grid Reaches the New World 10 The Industrial Revolution 15 Chapter 2 Decentralization: The Rise and Decline of Industrial Cities 31 Proto-Urban Design: Rejecting a Classical Past to Shape an Industrial Future 31 Chapter 3 Recentralization: The Forces Shaping Twenty-First-Century Urbanism 69 New York Stock Exchange Financial District Streetscapes and Security (New York, New York) 71 District of Columbia Streetcar Land Use Study (Washington, D.C.) 75 Chicago Decarbonization Plan (Chicago) 79 Fayetteville 2030: Transit City Scenario (Fayetteville, Arkansas) 81 South Coast Rail Economic and Land Use Plan (Massachusetts) 88 Citygarden (St. Louis, Missouri) 90 UrbanRiver Visions (Massachusetts) 93 Campus Martius Park (Detroit, Michigan) 95 The Future of Pittsburgh Hillsides (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) 98 Emscher Landscape Park (Ruhr Valley, Germany) 108 SW Ecodistrict (Washington, D.C.) 111 Lloyd Crossing Sustainable Urban Design Plan (Portland, Oregon) 113 East Baltimore Comprehensive Physical Redevelopment Plan (Baltimore, Maryland) 120 Torre David Informal Settlement (Caracas, Venezuela) 124 Chapter 4 Recentralization: Twenty-First-Century Urbanism Takes Shape 131 Eastward Ho! (Southeast Florida) 134 Charlottesville Commercial Corridor Study (Charlottesville, Virginia) 136 Crystal City Vision Plan 2050 (Arlington, Virginia) 142 Sandy Springs City Center Master Plan (Sandy Springs, Georgia) 145 Portland Streetcar (Portland, Oregon) 159 Belmar (Lakewood, Colorado) 169 Bryant Park (New York, New York) 176 Parc André Citröen (Paris, France) 178 Barclays Center (Brooklyn, New York) 181 Discovery Green (Houston, Texas) 185 Cheonggyecheon Stream Daylighting (Seoul, South Korea) 197 LA Live (Los Angeles, California) 200 Marina Barrage (Singapore) 202 Masdar City (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) 204 HafenCity (Hamburg, Germany) 208 Fairmount Line Smart-Growth Corridor (Boston, Massachusetts) 214 Ellen Wilson Neighborhood Redevelopment (Washington, D.C.) 216 North Wharf Promenade/Jellicoe Street/Silo Park (Auckland, New Zealand) 219 Millennium Park (Chicago, Illinois) 223 The High Line (New York, New York) 225 Parco San Giuliano (Venice, Italy) 227 Swiss Government Plaza (Bern, Switzerland) 230 Tanner Springs Park (Portland, Oregon) 232 Railroad Park (Birmingham, Alabama) 234 Superkilen Park, Nørrebro (Copenhagen, Denmark) 237 Santa Monica Boulevard Master Plan (West Hollywood, California) 240 Broadway Boulevard (New York, New York) 243 POPOS: Privately Owned Public Open Spaces (San Francisco, California) 248 Chapter 5 Theories of Urbanism 255 Seaside Town Square and Beachfront Master Plan (Seaside, Florida) 259 Madrid Río (Madrid, Spain) 262 Chapter 6 Urban Design for an Urban Century: Principles, Strategies, and Process 271 Bridge Street Corridor Plan (Dublin, Ohio) 273 National 9/11 Memorial (New York, New York) 289 Afterword 299 Index 301
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Cities in Relations
Book SynopsisCities in Relations advances a novel way of thinking about urban transformation by focusing on transnational relations in the least developed countries. Examines the last 20 years of urban development in Hanoi, Vietnam, and inOuagadougou, Burkina Faso Considers the ways in which a city's relationships with other places influences its urban development Provides fresh ideas for comparative urban studies that move beyond discussions of economic and policy factors Offers aclear and concise narrative accompanied by more than 45 photos and maps Trade Review“This would be especially valuable in continuing the study of urban developments in the post-communist environment.” (Geographica Helvetica, 1 May 2015)Table of ContentsList of Figures vii List of Tables x Acronyms xi Series Editors’ Preface xiii Preface and Acknowledgements xiv 1 Comparing Cities in Relations 1 Relating Hanoi, Ouagadougou … and Palermo 4 A Brief Introduction to Two Distant Cousins 5 World-city Research Beyond the West 9 Relational Geographies 12 Comparing Cities 17 The Structure of the Book 26 2 Trajectories of Urban Change in Two Ordinary Cities 31 Regime Change in Hanoi and Ouagadougou 33 Forms of Relatedness 42 Conclusion 55 3 Transnational Policy Relations 60 Mobile Planners and City Networks 63 Concrete and Paper in Hanoi’s Urban Development 64 Ouagadougou’s Competing Worlds of Policy Relations 76 Conclusion 87 4 Public Space Policies on the Move 92 A Repertoire of Translocal Connections 94 Public Space: Understandings, Practices and Things 97 Translocal Connections and Public Space Policy in the Making 103 The Politics of Translocal Connections 108 Traveling Participation and Public Space Design 110 Conclusion 116 5 Connecting to Circuits of Architectural Design 120 Stretched Geographies of Design 121 Circuits of Architectural Design in Hanoi and Ouagadougou 123 Hanoi: Design Spaces of an Emerging Economy 125 Ouagadougou: Architectures of Development 131 Grounding Design 136 Conclusion: Transnational Learning Processes and “Banal” Nationalism 140 6 On Road Interchanges and Shopping Malls: What Traveling Types Do 145 Modernization as Morality and Power 147 Modernization Through Ouagadougou’s Built Environment 150 Staging New Social Identities in Hanoi’s Shopping Malls 159 Conclusion 166 Conclusion: For a Politics of Urban Relatedness 171 Comparing Processes, Worlds of Relations, and Relational Effects 172 The Evolving Relational Worlds of Cities 175 An Assets-based Politics of Relatedness 178 References 181 Index 196
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Transience and Permanence in Urban Development
Book SynopsisThe first substantive, critical review of temporary urban uses, Transience and Permanence in Urban Development is essential reading for academics, policy makers, practitioners and students of cities worldwide.Table of ContentsList of Contributors xiii Notes on Contributors xv Preface xxi Acknowledgements xxv 1 Introduction: Temporary Uses as Alternative Practices 1 John Henneberry Vacant land and temporary use 1 Theorising and conceptualising temporary use 3 Describing and analysing temporary uses 6 Critical analysis of temporary use 9 The coverage of the book 11 Acknowledgement 13 References 14 2 Forcing the Empties Back to Work? Ruinphobia and the Bluntness of Law and Policy 17 Luke Bennett Introduction: gazing upon the New Ruins 17 How ruinphobia unsettles us 18 Tracing ruinphobia into urban law and policy 20 Time is always running out for a building and its uses 26 Is ruinphobia forcing empties back to work, or are law’s tools blunt? 27 References 28 3 Liminal Spaces and Theorising the Permanence of Transience 31 Nicola Livingstone and Peter Matthews Introduction 31 Theorising transient spatialities 33 Food banks as spaces of the in-between 36 Temporalities and ‘yet-ness’ in Wester Hailes 39 Conclusion 42 References 43 4 Temporary Uses Producing Difference in Contemporary Urbanism 47 Panu Lehtovuori and Sampo Ruoppila Introduction 47 The difference that temporary uses may produce 48 Temporary uses, appropriation and the Right to the City 49 Towards a socio-spatial theory of temporary uses – margins, fallows, amenities, commons 51 Difference driven by users 54 Temporary uses, regeneration and gentrification 57 Conclusion: non-commodified spaces in a commodifying city 60 References 62 5 Short-Term Projects, Long-Term Ambitions: Facets of Transience in Two London Development Sites 65 Krystallia Kamvasinou Introduction 65 Historical framework 66 Case study 1: Canning Town Caravanserai: semi-public community and events space with emphasis on up-cycling 68 Case study 2: Cultivate London Brentford Lock: urban farm and social enterprise project 73 Analytical framework: key themes 78 Concluding thoughts 80 Acknowledgements 82 References 82 6 Navigating the Rapids of Urban Development: Lessons from the Biospheric Foundation, Salford, UK 85 Beth Perry, Vincent Walsh and Catherine Barlow Introduction 85 From vision to practice 86 The Janus faces of urban socio-ecological experimentation 95 Acknowledgements 98 References 98 7 The Urban Voids of Istanbul 101 Basak Tanulku Istanbul: global city of Turkey with no ‘vacancy’ 102 Different types of urban voids in Istanbul 103 Three case studies 105 Physical void: from ghostly historic homes to high-value offices 105 Physical void: squatting as an alternative space 108 Symbolic void: the Ataturk Cultural Centre 111 Conclusion 114 Acknowledgments 115 References 115 8 Institutionalizing Urban Possibility: Urban Greening and Vacant Land Governance in Three American Cities 117 Katherine Foo State strategies in urban shrinkage 117 Environmental coalitions in urban shrinkage 118 Methods 119 Civic environmental coalitions in weak land markets 120 Windows of opportunity: political coalitions in Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore 122 Political will and investment capacity: a counter-cyclical relationship 128 References 129 9 The Trajectory of Berlin’s ‘Interim Spaces’: Tensions and Conflicts in the Mobilisation of ‘Temporary Uses’ of Urban Space in Local Economic Development 131 Claire Colomb ‘Temporary uses’ and ‘interim spaces’ in reunified Berlin 132 The mobilisation of ‘temporary uses’ in local economic development and place marketing policies 134 The dilemmas and tensions inherent in the mobilisation of temporary uses as a tool of urban revitalisation: trajectories, conflicts and resistance 136 The contested future of the Tempelhof airfield 141 Conclusion 146 References 147 10 Pop-up Justice? Reflecting on Relationships in the Temporary City 151 Amelia Thorpe, Timothy Moore and Lee Stickells Tactics and interventions 151 Justice in the city 154 Attending to the particular 157 Attending to the collective 161 Conclusion 165 Acknowledgements 166 References 166 11 Planning, Property Rights, and the Tragedy of the Anticommons: Temporary Uses in Portland and Detroit 171 Matthew F Gebhardt Introduction 171 The Tragedy of the Anticommons 172 Anticommons and real estate development 173 Anticommons, informality, and temporary use 175 Case studies 177 Conclusion 182 References 183 12 Valuation and the Evolution of New Uses and Buildings 185 Neil Crosby and John Henneberry Introduction 185 The acceptance of the new 186 The comparative approach to property valuation 189 The institutional context of the application of comparison techniques 193 The calculative regime of comparative valuation 195 References 196 13 Public Policy and Urban Transience: Provoking New Urban Development through Contemporary Models of Property Based Finance in England 199 Kevin Muldoon-Smith and Paul Greenhalgh Introduction: public policy and urban transience 199 Conceptual framework 200 Fiscal decentralisation and the urban built environment 202 Financing urban transience 206 Discussion and conclusion 210 References 212 14 Tackling Hardcore Vacancy through Compulsory Sale Orders 215 David Adams Introduction 215 Hardcore vacancy 216 An institutional explanation of hardcore vacancy 220 Compulsory Sale Orders 224 Balancing property rights and responsibilities 226 Conclusions 228 References 229 15 Frameworks for Temporary Use: Experiments of Urban Regeneration in Bremen, Rome and Budapest 231 Daniela Patti and Levente Polyak The conditions of temporary use 232 Transferring models 233 Municipality-initiated temporary use: ZwischenZeitZentrale, Bremen 235 Formalising activism: temporary use experiments in Rome 238 Establishing trust: public and private initiatives for temporary use in Budapest 242 Conclusions 246 References 248 16 Conclusions: The Tensions and Dilemmas of Transience 249 John Henneberry Time, transience and temporality 250 The structural position of transience in the urban system 252 The transition from temporary to established use 256 Policy and transience 260 Conclusions 263 Acknowledgements 264 References 264 Index 265
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Urban Dystopias
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsA Truly Golden Handbook of Urban DYStopias Chapter 2 Urban Farming: The Reluctant Utopia Chapter 3 Pertopia: Speculative Thinking in a Short-Term World Chapter 4 Broadband-acre City: ‘No Traffic Problem, No Buffering’ Chapter 5 The Mega-Eco-Garden City: Stories of Rewilding and Ecodystopia Chapter 6 An Urban Odyssey: City Beautiful to City Instagrammable Chapter 7 Arcological City: Going Underground Chapter 8 Cool Urbanism: The Radiant Exitance City Chapter 9 The City of Frictionless Mobility Chapter 10 High-Definition City: An Invisible Horizon of Technological Human Space Chapter 11 The Promises of Postcolonial Utopias: Perspectives from the Global South Chapter 12 Cité Industrielle 4.0: Zoning for the Latest Revolution Chapter 13 Another Normal: A Techno-Social Alternative to Techno-Feudal Cities Chapter 14 The Floating ‘Urban Village’: Makoko Futures Chapter 15 GAN-Physarum: Shaping the Future of the Urbansphere Chapter 16 From Another Perspective – Fanning the Flames of the City Heat: Anton Markus Pasing Contributors About Architectural Design
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Turning a Town Around
Book SynopsisToday's trend towards the renewal of cities, sociable places, higher standards of architecture and sustainable city centre living is the business of urban design. In Britain, effective urban design is now at the forefront of government policy. However, even when the goals are clear, how do you make a start? If you are a planner, an elected councillor, or a developer what do you have to do on a day-to-day basis? In particular, how do you handle design within the planning process and ensure it is connected to other aspects of policy? How do you maintain this good practice as a matter of course? Tony Hall offers solutions not through idealised prescriptions but by setting out practical action based on what has been achieved on the ground. Uniquely amongst texts on this subject, the book draws upon his combination of both professional and political experience. This accessible and highly illustrated book shows how to: Trade Review"Against a background of very varying commitment to the control of design quality in development both across time and geographically, this book makes a very useful contribution by highlighting the successes that can be achieved when the system is working well." (International Planning Studies, August 2008) "[The book] is extremely focussed and insightful … .Well illustrated, cross referenced and discussed." (Urban Design International, Autumn 2008) "Based on numerous case studies, this book provides practical advice for councillors and planning authorities." (Regeneration and Renewal) "Essential reading for local councillors, heads of department involved in policy and those interested in urban design and the planning process." (Building Engineer) Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 - A Pro-active Approach. 1 - Getting Organised. 2 - Urban Design as Spatial Policy. 3 - Guides, Briefs and Master Plans. 4 - The Process of Negotiation Part 2 - Origins and Outcomes. 5 - Achieving Residential Quality. 6 - Pursuing an Urban Renaissance. 7 - Living in the Centre. Conclusion
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Urban Regeneration and Social Sustainability
Book SynopsisUrban regeneration is a key focus for public policy throughout Europe. This book examines social sustainability and analyses its meaning and significance an area of research which has, until now, been comparatively neglected. The authors offer a comprehensive European perspective to identify best practice in sustainable urban regeneration in five major cities in Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, and the UK. Urban Regeneration & Social Sustainability: best practice from European cities examines the extent to which social sustainability is incorporated within urban regeneration projects in the EU, but also investigates how local authorities, developers, investors and other key stakeholders approach sustainability. The book covers the recent economic recession and the growth of responsible investment (RI) and corporate responsibility (CR) agendas of investors and developers. It also provides a thorough analysis of the current metrics and tools used by the public, private and Table of ContentsThe Authors xiii Contributing Authors xiv Foreword: Stanley McGreal xv All chapters authored by Andrea Colantonio and Tim Dixon unless otherwise stated PART I SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY AND URBAN REGENERATION 1 1 Introduction 3 Background and context 3 Urban regeneration and social sustainability 7 Aims and objectives 9 Methodology for the research 11 Case study selection 13 Outline of the book 17 2 Social Sustainability and Sustainable Communities: Towards a Conceptual Framework 18 Introduction 18 What is social sustainability? 19 Traditional and emerging themes and dimensions 24 Sustainable cities and communities 30 Conclusions 35 3 Metrics and Tools for Social Sustainability 37 Introduction 37 Impact assessment and social sustainability assessment 38 A brief overview of sustainability indicators and social sustainability tools 47 Traditional social indicators versus emerging social sustainability indicators 50 Conclusions 52 4 Urban Regeneration: Delivering Social Sustainability 54 Introduction 54 A question of definition 55 Evolution of urban regeneration policy 57 Responsible investment practices 62 Institutional involvement in urban regeneration 65 Partnership models 71 Integrating and measuring social sustainability in urban regeneration 77 Conclusions 78 PART I I SOCIALLY SUSTAINABLE URBAN REGENERATION IN EUROPE 81 5 Integrated Urban Regeneration and Sustainability: Approaches from the European Union 83Juliet Carpenter Introduction 83 The EU policy framework 84 The Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund to 2006 88 The URBAN Community Initiative 95 Structural Funds 2007–2013 97 Conclusions 100 6 The Future Regeneration of Roath Basin, Cardiff Bay 102Tim Dixon and Austine Ngómbe Introduction 102 Historic perspective 103 Regeneration policy: Cardiff Bay 105 Policy and context: Recent developments 110 Regeneration of Roath Basin 112 Conclusions 121 7 The Regeneration of La Mina – Sant Adriá de Besós 122Venere Stefania Sanna and Andrea Colantonio Introduction 122 Urban development and decline 124 The policy context 125 Urban regeneration and partnership arrangements 127 Social sustainability 135 Conclusions 141 8 The Regeneration of Turin and Porta Palazzo 143 Introduction 143 Urban development and decline 144 The policy context 145 Urban regeneration and partnership arrangements 149 Social sustainability 159 Conclusions 167 9 The Regeneration of Rotterdam and the ‘South Pact’ 168Introduction 168 Urban development and decline 170 Policy context 171 The regeneration of South Rotterdam and partnership arrangements 174 Social sustainability 179 Conclusions 185 10 Leipzig East and the Socially Integrative City (‘Soziale Stadt’) Programme 187Robin Ganser Introduction 187 Policy context 188 Funding structures 199 Partnership arrangements 200 Social sustainability 201 Conclusions 204 PART I I I BEST PRACTICES IN URBAN REGENERATION: CONCLUDING PERSPECTIVES 207 11 Towards Best Practice and a Social Sustainability Assessment Framework 209 Introduction and context 209 Best practice in social sustainability monitoring systems: igloo’s SRI system 211 The social sustainability assessment framework 215 Conclusions 238 12 Conclusions 240 Introduction 240 Setting the scene: From distressed urban areas to regenerated urban areas? 242 Socially sustainable urban regeneration policy 245 Best approaches and practices to implement and monitor social sustainability 249 Public–private partnerships and emerging urban regeneration delivery vehicles 253 The future of urban regeneration: Moving out of recession and retaining the social dimension 254 Appendices 259 1 Interviews conducted as part of the research process and fieldworks 259 2 Vancouver’s quality of life and social sustainability indicators 262 3 The evolution of sustainable development metrics initiatives by governmental and institutional organisations 263 4 Main CSR and social capital initiatives, tools and techniques 266 5 Assessment of igloo’s SRI policy objectives 270 6 List of comparative baseline basic indicators for La Mina neighbourhood (2001) 273 Bibliography 285 Index 309
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Community Planning
Book SynopsisThis key planning textbook on designing healthy and sustainable communities informs planners about community life and the processes of planning and equips them with the essential knowledge and skills they need to organise change and improve the quality of urban living. The author examines the impacts of social and economic change on community life and organization and explores ways in which these changes can be planned and managed. Community planning is presented as a means to balance and integrate beneficial change with the maintenance of valued cultural traditions and life styles. This involves bringing together fields of study and practice including urban and regional planning, design, communication, housing, community organization, employment, transport, and governance. Links drawn between personal values, human activities, physical spaces and societal governance assist this process of synthesis. Establishing a common vocabulary to discuss planning - for urban and regionTrade Review"So this is a good time to distil key messages from experiences with community planning, and an international perspective can help. Phil Heywood's new book "Community Planning: Integrating Social and Physical Environments" is a good place to start. It includes a compelling case study of the practice of design-led local community involvement in Northern Queensland." (Cliff Hague World View, 1 August 2011) "This volume is a most welcomed contribution to the social planning literature from the highly respected and esteemed academic Phil Heywood. Its tone and tenor echoes his passionate effervescent teaching, scholarship and advocacy across the broad spectrum that is community and social planning and is an engaging read throughout, from the preface to the conclusion." (Australian Planner, 2014, vol.51, no.3, 281-292) Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. 1 The Nature and Planning of Community Life. Part One: Social and Economic Changes. The current cascade of change. Part Two: Community Life and Change. Contemporary challenges to community life. Part Three: Competing Interpretations of Community Structure and Change. Order: genetically driven dominance. Productivity and exchange: through market competition. Control through transcendence of conflict: equality through struggle. Collaboration: through negotiation, adjustment and mutual aid. Part Four: The Roles of Cooperation. Cooperation in practice. Conclusions. 2 The Spirit and Characteristics of Community Planning. Part One: Themes. Communication. Consultation. Participation and exclusion. The signifi cance of participatory theories. Negotiation. Part Two: Applications. Necessary conditions for effective community consultation. The role and themes of consultation. Methods of consultation. Consultation techniques. Conclusion: relations of community planning with community action, community development and community organisation. 3 Local Communities of Place and Contact. Social and organisational characteristics of local communities. The physical forms of communities. Spatial justice. The planning of places. Community participation and governance. Conclusion: the durability of local communities of place and contact. 4 Communities of Interest and Interaction. City communities. Regional interest communities. National communities. Supranational political communities. Global communities. The many levels of community planning. Conclusion: mixed scanning for integrated community planning. 5 Human Values and Community Goals. Value formation. The value of prosperity. The value of liberty. The values of social justice. Values for sustainable communities. Relations among the four community values. Conclusions: how values can combine to help solve problems and shape creative plans. 6 Communities of Method. Art and creativity in planning. Science, knowledge and planning method. Planning as a craft. Political control and community participation. Conclusions: values as the basis for communities of method. 7 Activities and their Analysis. The links between activity systems and values. The uses of models of activities. The role of systems theory within the planning process. Activity systems analysis in practice. Conclusions: the roles of activity systems in community planning. Appendix 1 Household demand and housing land supply statistics, Greater Brisbane 1996–2016. Appendix 2 Employment Projections: Brisbane Statistical Division. Key Assumptions. 8 People, Homes and Communities. Demographic challenges in meeting global and local housing needs. Technological responses and impacts. Roads, wheels, wagons and motor vehicles. Costs, means and access to provision and fi nance of housing. Balancing demand and supply for shelter. Conclusions: the contributions of shelter to community life. 9 Facets of Community. Justifi cations for community intervention. The planning and organisation of work. The place of learning in community life. The planning and delivery of health services. Conclusion: the many facets of community. 10 Places, Spaces and Community Design. Places and their properties. Communal and collective spaces and places. The language of design and the vocabulary of space and place. Place-making: designing to make life. Models of urban form. Conclusion: bringing places to life. 11 Community Governance and Participation. Governance, government and community participation. Issues of freedom and order. The roles of negotiation and partnership. The development and evaluation of policies and proposals. Roles and responsibilities in governance and participation. Scales of community and their roles of governance and control. Conclusions: the contributions of participation and governance to community life. 12 Conclusions: Community Planning Today and Tomorrow. The elements of community planning. Themes, roles and future directions. The future of community planning. Endnotes. References. Index. A colour plate section.
£50.30
Johns Hopkins University Press The Housing Bomb
Book SynopsisThe housing bomb is ticking, and our choice is clear-change our approach or feel the blast.Trade ReviewThe Housing Bomb: Why Our Addiction to Houses Is Destroying the Environment and Threatening Our Society explores common fallacies in thinking about housing and offers many alternatives, and is a pick for any social issues collection, especially those strong in urban research. Midwest Book Review The Housing Bomb is an eloquent expose of the social and environmental ills associated with western housing trends. -- Martin Brueckner Pacific Conservation Biology Any reader with an interest in economics, sustainable business, and ecology will find this book well worth reading and debating. -- Rick Docksai World Future SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Household Dynamics and Their Contribution to the Housing Bomb2. How Home Ownership Both Emancipates and Enslaves Us3. "Housaholism" in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem4. Household Dynamics and Giant Panda Conservation5. Defusing the Housing Bomb with Your House6. Individual and Local Strategies for Defusing the Housing Bomb7. Large-Scale Strategies for Defusing the Housing BombConclusionNotesIndex
£26.10
Johns Hopkins University Press The Great Society Subway
Book SynopsisThe story of the Great Society Subway sheds light on the development of metropolitan Washington, postwar urban policy, and the promises and limits of rail transit in American cities.Trade ReviewExtensively researched, cleverly structured, and finely written, this book stands out for the way it provides an integral, comprehensive account of a key urban service. -- Georg Leidenberger American Historical Review In this superbly-written book, Zachary Schrag... explains how this achievement came about and what its impact is... A joy to read. -- Gregory L. Thompson Technology and Culture The author makes us privy to the thinking that went into the system's design. -- Dennis Drabelle Washington Post Book World Schrag does a thorough job with his subject. -- Rachel DiCarlo Washington Times A timely look at how the Metro got where it is today. Civil Engineering It's a fascinating look at a modern transit triumph. Trains A graceful, fact-packed history of the genesis, development, and current state of the Washington Metro system. H-DC The Great Society Subway is a great book for students of contemporary transit history. -- Alexander D. Mitchell Railfan and Railroad An excellent book... a welcome and readable addition to the literature of how we construct the societies we inhabit. -- Alex Marshall Regional Plan Association Spotlight An exhaustively researched, engagingly written study of the planning, designing, building, and operating of the Washington Metro. -- Sy Adler Journal of American History [Schrag] shows the interrelationship of citizens' hopes and fears, visionaries' ideas, politicians' need to succeed, engineers' practical requirements, and the ebb and flow of affecting events over time. It is a fascinating story well told... a love story by an historian for his city and its people. -- William W. Millar Journal of the American Planning Association A masterful new book... Schrag's The Great Society Subway gives an eloquent and hopeful explanation of how this marvelous system came to be, and backs it up with an enormous amount of evidence and keen historical perspective. Washington History A meticulously researched account. -- Phil Hervey Urban Land Schrag has written a valuable study of the role of infrastructure in shaping the modern, urban world, and he aptly shows both the possibiities and limitations of major public investments... insights especially illuminating. -- J. Lawrence Lee CRM: Journal of Heritage Stewardship A welcome and readable addition to the literature of how we construct the societies we inhabit. -- Alex Marshall Hartford Courant Without question high drama... I strongly recommend that you put down the latest Baldacci mystery and ready this very well written, comprehensive, and entertaining book... one terrific book that belongs on lots of shelves, from planners to historians to rail buffs to politicians. -- Konrad J. Perlman Journal of Planning Literature A remarkable book. It has drama, it has pathos, it has passion, it has literary grace. -- Bob Post Journal of Transport History In clear and engaging prose, Schrag interweaves facts with a wide range of pragmatic, political, and aesthetic matters with discussions of those who posed and resolved the issues. -- Pamela Scott Journal of Social History In clear and engaging prose, Schrag interweaves facts with a wide range of pragmatic, political, and aesthetic matters with discussions of those who posed and resolved the issues. -- Pamela Scott Journal of the Society of Architectural HistoriansTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. The City, 1791–19552. The Plans, 1955–19653. The Stations, 1965–19674. The Region, 1966–19675. The Bridge, 1966–19716. The Builders, 1972–19767. The Money, 1972–19808. The District9. The Suburbs10. The RidersConclusionNotesIndex
£25.17
Johns Hopkins University Press Building Washington
Book SynopsisA richly illustrated behind-the-scenes tour of how the nation's capital was built. In 1790, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson set out to build a new capital for the United States of America in just ten years. The area they selected on the banks of the Potomac River, a spot halfway between the northern and southern states, had few resources or inhabitants. Almost everything needed to build the federal city would have to be brought in, including materials, skilled workers, architects, and engineers. It was a daunting task, and these American Founding Fathers intended to do it without congressional appropriation. Robert J. Kapsch's beautifully illustrated book chronicles the early planning and construction of our nation's capital. It shows how Washington, DC, was meant to be not only a government center but a great commercial hub for the receipt and transshipment of goods arriving through the Potomac Canal, then under construction. Picturesque plans would not be enough; the endeaTrade ReviewRich in period detail thanks to Kapsch's extensive use of original documents, drawings and illustrations, and cost data for context, Building Washington is a fascinating look at the creation of the seat of our democracy.—Ray Bert, Civil EngineeringKapsch, a historian of engineering, focuses principally on the decades between the passage of the Residence Act of 1790, which selected the site for the new nation's capital, and the repair and reconstruction efforts that followed the burning of public buildings by British troops in 1814. The narrative centers on the transition from an eighteenth-century mode of construction led by "gentleman planters" to one orchestrated by professionally trained "architect-engineers." Along the way, Kapsch examines the supply chains, building techniques, financial expedients, and political wrangling that went into making the city.—David Schley, Journal of Southern HistoryBuilding Washington is a meticulously detailed account of the early construction of the capital city . . . The work will provide a treasure trove for research specialists in engineering and construction practices of the early republic and an informative reference work for enthusiastic Washingtonians.—Thomas J. Brown, University of South Carolina, Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsTimelineAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I1. Pierre L’Enfant’s Two Plans for Executing the President’s Vision2. Financing the Federal City3. Constructing the Federal City4. Developing a Commercial Center5. Early Infrastructure and Transport Improvements6. Building Military Defenses for the CapitalPart II7. The First Public Building Campaign (1791-1802)8. The Second Public Building Campaign (1803-1811)9. The Third Public Building Campaign (1815-1824)10. Later Transportation ImprovementsEpilogueBibliographyIndex
£54.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Waterfront Manhattan
Book SynopsisThe waterfront was the key to New York City's growth and prosperity. For hundreds of years, the shorefront of Manhattan Island served as the country's center of trade, shipping, and commerce. With its maritime links across the oceans, along the Atlantic coast, and inland to the Midwest and New England, Manhattan became a global city and home to the world's busiest port. It was a world of docks, ships, tugboats, and ferries, filled with cargo and freight, a place where millions of immigrants entered the Promised Land. In Waterfront Manhattan, Kurt C. Schlichting tells the story of the Manhattan waterfront as a struggle between public and private control of New York's priceless asset. Nature provided New York with a sheltered harbor but presented the city with a challenge: to find the necessary capital to build and expand the maritime infrastructure. From colonial times until after the Civil War, the city ceded control of the waterfront to private interests, excluding the public entireTrade ReviewWell researched, engagingly told, and rich in historical, sociological, and economic detail, Waterfront Manhattan represents a new way to look at the ascendancy and growth of America's most important city.—Ray Bert, Civil EngineeringIn Waterfront Manhattan, Schlichting has woven an impressive narrative which is sure to shed light on this underappreciated aspect of New York City history.—Erin Becker, Long Island Maritime Museum, Global Maritime HistoryThis is an important book. There is much to ponder on the future of New York City's harbor, encompassing all five of the city's boroughs and also New Jersey's shoreline.—Evelyn Gonzalez, William Paterson University, Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsPreface1. Growth, Decline, and Rebirth2. Water-Lots and the Extension of the Manhattan Shoreline3. The Ascendency of the Port of New York4. New York's Waterway Empires5. The Social Construction of the Waterfront6. The Port Prospers, the Railroads Arrive, and Congestion Ensues7. The Public and Control of the Waterfront8. Crime, Corruption, and the Death of the Manhattan Waterfront9. Rebirth of the WaterfrontNotesIndex
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