City and town planning: architectural aspects Books
Urban Land Institute,U.S. Creating Walkable Places Compact MixedUse
Book SynopsisRichly illustrated with colour photographs, site plans, and diagrams, this book explains how to design and develop pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use developments.
£89.10
Urban Land Institute,U.S. Affordable Housing Designing an American Asset
Book SynopsisThis lavishly illustrated book describes the development of 15 affordable housing projects, designed by some of the nation's most gifted architects. It shows how affordable housing can be durable, environmentally sensitive, comfortable, attractive, and economical to maintain.
£28.45
Urban Land Institute,U.S. Breaking the Development Log Jam New Strategies
Book SynopsisExplains in plain terms how developers and planners can involve the community in the development process using the latest community engagement tools. It describes why, in these days of more complex projects and development approval procedures, it pays to win citizen support rather than fight opposition.
£23.70
Urban Land Institute,U.S. Workforce Housing Innovative Strategies and Best
Book SynopsisDescribes some of the most innovative and successful strategies that have produced housing that working families can afford.
£37.95
Urban Land Institute,U.S. Regenerating Older Suburbs
Book SynopsisHow can aging inner-ring suburbs remain vital and attract investment from private development? This book describes the strategies and solutions employed by 10 inner-ring suburbs—some experiencing significant redevelopment and others striving to attract redevelopment.
£67.50
Urban Land Institute,U.S. Developing Sustainable Planned Communities
Book SynopsisGet practical how-to information on designing and developing attractive, profitable, and environmentally responsible planned communities. This book includes 10 case studies of successful projects in the US, the UK and Australia.
£89.10
Seattle Art Museum Seattles Olympic Sculpture Park
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Lake Forest College Beyond Burnham An Illustrated History of Planning
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£19.76
Overcup Press Tilikum Crossing Bridge of the People
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£17.09
MIT School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) Toward Urban Economic Vibrancy Patterns and
Book SynopsisThe emergence of new planned cities in Asian countries, examined in terms of economic vibrancy.Since 2000, the emergence of new planned cities has established a significant trend in urbanization across Asian countries. Central planners explicitly conceptualize these projects primarily as long-term investments for urban economic vibrancy. They hope that new cities will allow their jurisdictions to leap into higher-skill sectors, diversify the existing economy, trigger creative clusters and innovation hubs, and cultivate vibrant urban environments that will attract talented workers and productive firms. The interplay of internal and external forces has prompted many Asian new cities to engage in global production and distribution chains. This book aims to present new cities in Asia from the perspective of economic vibrancy, identifying key mechanisms for measuring success. The analytical framework addresses the mechanisms along three dimensions: underlying forces that fo
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Making the Arctic City
Book SynopsisPeter Hemmersam is Professor in Urban Design at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and he directs the Oslo Centre for Urban and Landscape Studies, Norway.Trade ReviewHemmersam charts the unique motives and circumstances that have produced a distinct form of urbanism with comprehensive aplomb. The book provides urgent insight into the formation of Arctic cities and their trajectories from both a global polar view and from on the fragile ground in which they emerge. * Mason White, University of Toronto, Canada, founding partner, LATERAL OFFICE *The book will certainly be useful for the widest audience. First of all, those who are directly involved in the architecture and design of Arctic cities will find interesting material in it, there is a lot of interesting comparative material for them here ... Of course, the book is also useful for those who are interested in the Arctic from a cultural and political point of view. But the most amazing thing is that the book is useful for everyone who is engaged in urban studies anywhere and has never even had anything to do with the Arctic. The existential problems of Arctic cities, which the book makes you think about, allow you to think more deeply about the patterns of urban development in general. -- Nadezhda Zamyatina * Polar Record *In an increasingly relevant and global North, Peter Hemmersam brings a perspective of urbanism. Russia, Canada and Greenland of the last century offer Hemmersam ideas of relationships, and the historical and political frameworks that drive the built form. Hemmersam recognizes Indigenous communities and knowledge that provide a blueprint for thriving within the landscapes, which has been both embraced and ignored by settlers. With a sense of utility and in a place of extremes, we consider a new architecture and a new plan for imagining urban futures in the Arctic. * Julie Decker, Museum Director/CEO, Anchorage Museum, USA *Within a context of accelerated climate change, Hemmersam’s book brings much needed expertise to fill a void in scholarship that is long overdue for understanding the legacy and future of architecture and urban design in the incredibly important, complex, and rapidly changing Arctic region. * Matthew Jull, PhD, Arctic Design Group, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, USA *Making the Arctic City offers a compelling angle to enhance our understanding of the persistent colonial perceptions and imaginaries that have largely influenced Arctic urban development and city-building in all circumpolar regions, including the Barents region. Most circumpolar cities may have rather short histories, but the book is a crucial reminder that these cities are far from historyless. -- Auni Haapala * Barents Studies *As the Artic is made up of many Norths, Arctic urbanism is as diverse as urbanism elsewhere. By exploring these connections and dependencies, Making the Arctic City makes an important contribution to a more comprehensive and inclusive understanding of Arctic Cities. -- Torill Nyseth * Eurasian Geography and Economics *To understand the mechanisms of Arctic urbanism, the publication Making the Arctic City by Peter Hemmersam is very recommended. * The Arctic Institute, Map of the Month *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Maps Preface Introduction Part One: Framing the Arctic City 1. Introducing the Arctic 2. Building cities in the Arctic 3. Studying Arctic cities Part Two: Arctic urban development 4. Developing Russia's Arctic cities 5. Developing Canada's Arctic cities 6. Developing Greenland's cities Part Three: Constructing the Arctic city 7. Defining Arctic urbanism 8. The architects of the Arctic city 9. Learning from the Arctic city Notes Bibliography Index
£111.45
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Domicide
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA deeply moving and clear eyed account of the Syrian conflict from a scholar who has lived its harsh realities on the ground and in exile. Domicide dispels the fiction of a post-conflict Syria, reminding us that the violence continues unabated, just in different configurations, in the wake of war. Azzouz poignantly describes how predatory states weaponize urban reconstruction, enacting new waves of violence in an effort to re-write history and erase communities. Moving us away from the endless mourning of monumental destruction, Domicide tells the bigger story of loss, the deliberate destruction of home. An important book that impels readers to rethink the entire category and contradictions of heritage work that will uncomfortably challenge all of us seeking to capture a world of conflict. * Lynn Meskell, University of Pennsylvania, USA *A harrowing account of everyday violence in contemporary Syria. Azzouz painfully narrates the displacement, dispossession, and compounded grief that Syrians have endured with the loss of home and the social and material fabric that holds it together. In Domicide, we see how Syrians have reimagined and recreated home, against all odds, both inside Syria and in exile. A timely and must-read book. * Rosie Bsheer, Harvard University, USA *A passionate and informed analysis of the deliberate policy pursued by the Asad regime in destroying the built environment of Homs and other Syrian cities. Azzouz’s narrative bears witness to this policy of domicide and also to the courage and dignity with which Homsis defend their city and reconstruct its memory. * Khaled Fahmy, Tufts University, USA *An important contribution to studies of the human costs of the ongoing Syrian civil war ... [and] a call to action, for the clarity Azzouz lays bare of the systematic and deliberate way Homs has been targeted will inspire a new wave of resilience, and the will to rebuild better. * The New Arab *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword, by Lyse Doucet Preface Introduction 1. Domicide: Slow violence, division and destruction 2. War on home: In search of a place to call home 3. Domicide and representation 4. Domicidal reconstruction 5. Domicide in war and peace Bibliography
£98.81
Johns Hopkins University Press The Modern Urban Landscape 1880 to the Present
Book SynopsisHe considers the less visible yet pervasive impacts associated with the emergence of electronic technologies and sustainable development.Trade ReviewAn ambitious and intelligent book... Relph takes seriously the ideals and intentions of those who have created the urban landscapes in which most of us now live. He's not written a satire. Still, the story he's telling is heavy with irony. Never in the history of human hopes have so many high-minded men and women worked so hard, and dreamed so passionately, with such dubious results. The National Post Brings together urban history, urban form, public planning history, the literature of utopianism, and the architecture of cities in an intelligent, coherent, lively, and controversial portrayal of the evolution of the physical characteristics of Anglo-American urban environments since 1880. Landscape JournalTable of ContentsPreface to the 2016 EditionPrefaceChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Looking Back at the Future: Late Twentieth-Century Landscapes in the 1890sChapter 3. Old Styles and New Forms in Architecture: 1880–1930Chapter 4. The Invention of Modern Town Planning: 1890–1940Chapter 5. Ordinary Landscapes of the First Machine Age: 1900–40Chapter 6. Modernism and Internationalism in Architecture: 1900–40Chapter 7. Landscapes in an Age of Illusions: 1930 to the Present Chapter 8. Planning the Segregated City: 1945–75Chapter 9. The Corporatisation of Cities 1945–Chapter 10. Modernist and Late-Modernist Architecture: 1945–Chapter 11. Post-Modernism in Planning and Architecture: 1970–Chapter 12. Modernist Cityscapes and Post-Modernist Townscapes Bibliography Index
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James Lorimer & Company Ltd Smart Cities for Canada
Book SynopsisTouted as the key to more livable cities, the "smart cities" approach gets an independent-minded analysis from experts. They point out its strengths, its weaknesses, the agendas at play, and the risks it poses for Canadians.
£16.87
GLOBAL PUBLISHER SERVICES DRUID HILLS
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Garden City The First 150 Years Images of America
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History Press Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley
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History Press Staten Island and the VerrazzanoNarrows Bridge
£18.13
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Building Portlands Memorial Coliseum
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Royal Collins Publishing Company Smart Cities Framework and Practice
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Berlin Contemporary
Book SynopsisFor years following reunification, Berlin was the largest construction site in Europe, with striking new architecture proliferating throughout the city in the 1990s and early 2000s. Among the most visible and the most contested of the new projects were those designed for the national government and its related functions. Berlin Contemporary explores these buildings and plans, tracing their antecedents while also situating their iconic forms and influential designers within the spectacular world of global contemporary architecture. Close studies of these sites, including the Reichstag, the Chancellery, and the reconstruction of the Berlin Stadtschloss (now known as the Humboldt Forum), demonstrate the complexity of Berlin's political and architectural rebuildingand reveal the intricate historical negotiations that architecture was summoned to perform.Trade Review“Walker writes about contemporary architecture not as a critic but as a sharp-eyed, thought-provoking historian. Berlin Contemporary is a meticulously researched book that raises the bar for the study of recent urbanism; Walker’s luscious, flowing prose makes for effortless reading, despite the seriousness of the subject. A formidable achievement.” * Carla Yanni, Distinguished Professor of Art History, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA *“A deeply researched book on a city that has, in the course of its reconstruction, arguably become the cultural capital of Europe, Berlin Contemporary grapples with issues of architecture, politics, the public sphere, and memory that have implications for cities around the world.” * Elizabeth Otto, Professor of Modern & Contemporary Art History, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA *“The words ‘Reunification of Germany’ seem to indicate a singular event. In reality, it is hardly a done deal even today. Approaching the topic in a way that is both sensitive and provocative, Walker’s book, interblending history and criticism, helps us see how architecture operates within complex political, geo-political, and cultural environments.” * Mark Jarzombek, Professor of the History & Theory of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Berlin, the Contemporary Capital Chapter 1: Bridging and Breaking—Master Planning the Spreebogen Chapter 2: The Reichstag’s New Lightness of Being Chapter 3: Monumental Modernism—The Chancellery as Future Ruin Chapter 4: Palaces of Doubt Conclusion: No One Intends to Open an Airport
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Vehicule Press A View from the Porch: Rethinking Home and
Book SynopsisThis is the latest updated book from "Canada’s housing guru" about how design affects our daily livesThis illuminating collection of 22 essays expounds upon the points where design touches life. The essays discuss the big and small things that make us appreciate, or become disconnected from, our homes and neighborhoods. Drawing on his experiences as an architect, planner, world traveler, and educator, Avi Friedman delves into issues such as the North American obsession with monster homes, the impact of scale on the feeling of comfort in our communities, environmental concerns such as deforestation, innovative recycling methods in building materials, the booming do-it-yourself industry, the decline of craftsmanship, and the role of good design in bringing families together. Written with Friedman’s trademark flair, A View from the Porch offers a compelling vision of the influence of design in our everyday lives from one of the world’s most innovative thinkers. With new material, this is a completely revised edition of Room for Thought, originally published in 2005.
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Pelican Publishing Co Majesty of the French Quarter, The
Book SynopsisBrings the majesty of the French Quarter to life in a luxurious parade of pictures and prose. Fabulous hotels, churches, fine restaurants, antique shops, and art galleries line the streets of the Quarter. But some of the most fascinating architecture--that of private residences--has never been photographed until now.
£34.84
Michigan State University Press Cleveland Architecture 1890-1930: Building the
Book SynopsisThis study looks at the architectural transformation of Cleveland during its “golden age” - roughly the period between post–Civil War reconstruction and World War I.By the early twentieth century, Cleveland, which would evolve into the fifth largest city in America, hoped to shed the gritty industrial image of its rapid-growth period and evolve into a city to match the political clout of its statesmen like John Hay and wealth of its business elites such as John D. Rockefeller.Encouraged by the spectacle and public response to the Beaux-Arts buildings of the Chicago World’s Exposition of 1893, the city embarked upon a grand scheme to construct new governmental and civic structures known as the Cleveland Plan of Grouping Public Buildings, one of the earliest and most complete City Beautiful planning schemes in the country.The success of this plan led to a spillover effect that prompted architects to design all manner of new public buildings with similar Beaux-Arts stylistic characteristics during the next three decades. With the group plan realized, civic leaders - with the goal of expanding the city’s cultural institutions to match the distinction of its civic centre - established its counterpart in University Circle, creating a secondary group plan, the first cultural centre in the country.
£46.80
Actar Publishers Plug-Ins: Design for City Making in Barcelona
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Actar Publishers The Innovative Urban Workplace: Designing for the
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£25.65
Actar Publishers New York Global: Critical Writings and Proposals:
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Actar D Revitalizing Japan
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University of Arkansas Press Interpreting Kigali, Rwanda: Architectural
Book SynopsisRwanda, less than a generation removed from the 1994 Genocide, is experiencing a period of economic ascent and population growth. Its capital city, Kigali, is expected to triple in size within a generation, and positioned to become a premiere hub of commerce in central and eastern Africa.Amidst this optimism, however, is limited land and material resources. Food security is in tension with environmental concerns, and government aspirations are often in friction with daily, individual struggles for subsistence.Interpreting Kigali, Rwanda explores the pressing challenges and opportunities to be found in planning, designing, and constructing a healthy, equitable, and sustainable city. Asking “what is an authentic-yet-modern, prosperous-yet-feasible African city, Rwandan city?” Smith, Berlanda, and colleagues conducted research on Rwandan activities of daily living and how these routines are connected to space-making practices and the Kinyarwanda terms that describe them.Through a culturally informed view of urban and rural lifestyles and spaces, Interpreting Kigali, Rwanda presents principles and proposals for neighborhood development in the challenging context of Kigali’s informal settlements. With one billion people living in informal settlements worldwide, a number expected to double by 2030, the lessons learned in Rwanda provide a complex, fascinating, and urgent study for scholars and practitioners across disciplines and around the world.
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Avenues of Translation: The City in Iberian and
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award — Edited Collection Cities both near and far communicate in a variety of ways. Travel between, through, and among urban centers initiates contact, and cities themselves are sites of ever-changing cultural and historical encounters. Predictable and surprising challenges and opportunities arise when city borders are crossed, voices meet, and artistic traditions find their counterparts. Using the Latin word for “translation,” translatio, or “to carry across,” as a point of departure, Avenues of Translation explores how translation perpetuates, diversifies, deepens, and expands the literary production of cities in their greater cultural context, and how translation shapes an understanding of and access to a city's past and present literary and cultural practices. Thinking about translation and the city is a way to tell the backstories of the cities, texts, and authors that are united by acts of translation. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Table of Contents Prologue: The City and the Translator by Suzanne Jill Levine Introduction: Translation and the City by Regina Galasso and Evelyn Scaramella 1 Un Walker en Nuyol: Coming to Terms with a Babel of Words by Ilan Stavans 2 Translation as a Native Language: The Layered Languages of Tango by Alicia Borinsky 3 Lorca, From Country to City: Three Versions of Poet in New York by Christopher Maurer 4 “Here Is My Monument”: Translation, Urban Space, and Martín Luis Guzmán’s Memorias de Pancho Villa by Nicholas Cifuentes Goodbody 5 On Languages and Cities: Rethinking the Politics of Calvert Casey’s “El regreso” by Charles Hatfield 6 A Palimpsestuous Adaptation: Translating Barcelona in Benet i Jornet's La plaça del Diamant by Jennifer Duprey 7 Montreal's New Latinité: Spanish-French Connections in a Trilingual City by Hugh Hazelton 8 Translating the Local: New York’s Micro-Cosmopolitan Media, from José Martí to the Hyperlocal Hub by Esther Allen 9 “litORAL translation TRADUCCIÓN LIToral” by Urayoán Noel 10 Coda: The City of the Translator’s Mind by Peter Bush Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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Lots of Architecture LLC NESS.docs 2: Landscape as Urbanism in the
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Lots of Architecture LLC NESS. On Architecture, Life, and Urban Culture,
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Experiment SHRINK THE CITY
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Black Dog Press Place and Home: The Search for Better Housing/PRP
Book SynopsisPRP is one of the most successful housing practices in the world. Peter Phippen, Peter Randall and David Parkes founded the practice in 1963, and since then have moved forward from their Modernist beginnings, evidenced in the post-Second World War housing boom to the diverse concerns of the twenty-first century - creating hospice care and sheltered housing for the elderly and infirm, as well as accommodating the need for sustainable, low-energy, zero-carbon developments. "Place & Home: The Search for Better Housing" comprises essays by Phippen, Randall and Parkes, Barry Munday and Chris Rudolph on PRP's past and current work, as well as texts by commissioned writers on the topics of 'place', 'building technology' and 'home' in architecture. These are interspersed with illustrated case studies of PRP's work with housing associations, local authorities and private developers, in diverse locations including Moscow, La Grande Motte, Milton Keynes, Manchester, and Brixton - the latter of which Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, considers "sets the standard for what we should be achieving in every social housing development in London".
£44.52
Dublin City Public Libraries 'Exercise of Authority': Surveyor Thomas Owen and
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Dublin City Public Libraries 'Exercise of Authority': Surveyor Thomas Owen and
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ActarD Inc Re-living the City: UABB 2015 Catalogue
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Actar Publishers Imminent Commons: Commoning Cities: Seoul
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Actar Publishers Future Real: Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant
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ActarD Inc Imminent Commons: Live from Seoul: Seoul Biennale
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ActarD Inc America Recovered
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Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers Limited Fluvial Metropolis: Past Visions/Future
Book SynopsisHyperirrealism is a merger of the disciplines of science and art for research in architecture. Hyperirrealism embodies architecture design that blends architecture, sculpture, digital imaging, mathematics and aesthetics simultaneously. Hyperirrealism is in pursuit of paired antagonistic concepts such as simplicity and complexity, systemic and random order, order and chaos, for generation of 21st Century Architecture.
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Actar Publishers The Practice of Spatial Thinking: Differentiation
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Radical Atlas of Ferguson USA
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Rutgers University Press Becoming Philadelphia: How an Old American City
Book SynopsisOnce dismissed as a rusting industrial has-been—the “Next Detroit”—Philadelphia has enjoyed an astonishing comeback in the 21st century. Over the past two decades, Inga Saffron has served as the premier chronicler of the city’s physical transformation as it emerged from a half century of decline. Through her Pulitzer Prize-winning columns on architecture and urbanism in the Philadelphia Inquirer, she has tracked the city’s revival on a weekly basis.Becoming Philadelphia collects the best of Saffron’s work, plus a new introduction reflecting on the stunning changes the city has undergone. A fearless crusader who is also a seasoned reporter, Saffron ranges beyond the usual boundaries of architectural criticism to explore how big money and politics intersect with design, profoundly shaping our everyday experience of city life. Even as she celebrates Philadelphia’s resurgence, she considers how it finds itself grappling with the problems of success: gentrification, poverty, privatization, and the unequal distribution of public services. What emerges in these 80 pieces is a remarkable narrative of a remarkable time. The proverbial first draft of history, these columns tell the story of how a great city shape-shifted before our very eyes.Trade Review"The dozens of columns in this essential collection illustrate the myriad ways Saffron's inability to accept business as usual have shaped her criticism and, ultimately, 21st century Philadelphia. From eviscerating mega-developments to decrying parking lots, Saffron makes clear that her first loyalty is to the people of Philadelphia and not the out-of-towers that successive mayors believed were more crucial to the city's success." -- Alexandra Lange * architecture and design critic *"With penetrating insight and biting wit, Inga Saffron’s critiques leap off the page. In this collection, they take on even greater force, illuminating the revival of a historic American city and offering lessons about the use—and misuse—of power and planning that apply to all cities." -- Blair Kamin * architecture critic, Chicago Tribune *"Architecture critic, investigative journalist, historian, urbanist, humanist, public citizen, Saffron wears all of these hats, she wears them comfortably, and her highly detailed and opinionated columns are fascinating and satisfying to read." * Artblog *"If you, like me, are not intimately familiar with Philadelphia, you might wonder how engaged you can become in a discussion of urbanism rooted in a single city. Very engaged, it turns out. Jane Jacobs used her neighborhood in lower Manhattan as the starting point for The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Similarly, Saffron has constructed a Philadelphia story that reverberates far beyond the city limits." * Rein Reports *"Philly has become a thriving town because it built on old foundations, valuing history and investing in downtown. It cherishes the little niceties that bring people here. And a series of smart policy decisions has now helped burnish this town’s rep. That’s the tale Inga Saffron tells us in Becoming Philadelphia. More than an appraiser of buildings, she is a chronicler of the ill-advised, idiotic, humane, and beautiful. * Philadelphia Inquirer *"I was impressed, and moved, by the heart in these articles, and I look forward to reading more columns in this humanistic vein as we reimagine what kind of city Philadelphia should become in the future." * Hidden City Philadelphia *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Chapter One: Suburbanizing the City Chapter Two: The Architecture of Revival Chapter Three: Sweating the Small Stuff Chapter Four: Age of the Mega-Projects Chapter Five: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back Chapter Six: Rebuilding Chapter Seven: The Spaces between the Buildings Chapter Eight: Building the Equitable City Chapter Nine: Getting Around Town Chapter Ten: Success and its Discontents Index
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Rutgers University Press East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte
Book SynopsisEast of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries, from eighteenth-century Spanish colonization to twenty-first century globalization. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte, showing how interdisciplinary and community-engaged scholarship can break new ground in public history. East of East tells stories that have been excluded from dominant historical narratives—stories that long survived only in the popular memory of residents, as well as narratives that have been almost completely buried and all but forgotten. Its cast of characters includes white vigilantes, Mexican anarchists, Japanese farmers, labor organizers, civil rights pioneers, and punk rockers, as well as the ordinary and unnamed youth who generated a vibrant local culture at dances and dive bars. Trade Review"Richly layered and movingly felt, East of East is a collaborative history of a seemingly ordinary place revealed as a crossroads of the local and the global. A remarkable interleaving of scholarship and the intimacy of memory." -- D.J. Waldie * author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir *"East of East makes several important interventions. First, it is part of an exciting movement to reclaim the histories and geographies of cities from the bottom up. Second, it focuses on a vital but completely overlooked part of LA history - El Monte. Essential reading for all those interested in southern California." -- Laura Pulido * co-Author of, A People’s Guide to Los Angeles *"Welcoming Boom’s New Editorial Team" mention of East of East https://boomcalifornia.com/2019/08/07/welcoming-booms-new-editorial-team/ * Boom California *"Who owns history? New book reconsiders San Gabriel Valley’s pioneer past," Greater LA hosted by Steve Chiotakis https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/lausd-police-el-monte/sgv-el-monte-history-book * "Greater LA," KCRW *“East of East digs up the dirt of greater El Monte to find what is left of ‘us’ — for the authors and contributors born and raised there, and for the Indigenous, immigrant, multiracial, multicultural and transnational communities brought to vivid life in these pages. It writes ‘us’ back into the narratives that erased us and writes new ones to remind us that white pioneer settlers are just part of the story, not the center of it.” * KCET.org *"San Gabriel Mission fire provokes deep, conflicting reactions," by Gustavo Arellano https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-13/san-gabriel-mission-fire-morning-mass * Los Angeles Times *"For 100 Years, El Monte Has Celebrated a Blatant Historical Falsehood. Why? A Southern California City Has a Rich, Multi-Ethnic Past That Its Foundational Myth Erases," by Romeo Guzmán https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2020/08/19/el-monte-end-of-the-santa-fe-trail-true-history/ideas/essay/ * Zócalo Public Square *"The editors of East of East see deeper truths. Greater El Monte, it turns out, is the setting for a story as rich and tangled as the flora that still covers the Whittier Narrows Recreation Area, a patch of parkland that lies, relatively unspoiled, in the watershed the El Montes call home." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"How Authors Are Reaching Book Lovers in the Age of COVID-19," by Teena Apeles https://www.kcet.org/shows/southland-sessions/how-authors-are-reaching-book-lovers-in-the-age-of-covid-19 * KCET.org *"Your history-buff friends all want this magical book for Christmas." * The Press-Enterprise *"Best of all, East of East is both chronicle and challenge to all of us: Know your local history, document it and spread its gospel to the world, no matter how seemingly small." * Los Angeles Times *"Combining creative nonfiction, oral history, and traditional scholarship, the various writings here reclaim the histories and geographies of the urban fringe these writers call 'east of east.' What makes this area so significant is that it’s been a point of 'contact between farmworkers, punks, white supremacists, suburbanites, Zumba dancers, and civil rights activists.'” * L.A. Taco *"Scholars and regular people will find something to enjoy in East of East. Tourists and Locals alike will have a refreshingly informed understanding next time they go cruising through the streets of Aztlán and find themselves on Durfee in El Monte, remembering novelist Salvador Plascencia’s description of Durfee Avenue. What a great gift, or textbook. East of East is scholarship done right. Órale to the publishers and especially lead editors Romeo Guzmán and Carribean Fragoza." * La Bloga *"The 10 best California books of 2020: Featuring 32 essays by writers including Alex Espinoza, Salvador Plascencia and Fragoza, this anthology seeks to restore the 'silenced histories' of El Monte, the small working-class city in eastern Los Angeles County, while also re-imagining its future as a community in its own right. 'The future will not happen in the cities or the suburbs,' the editors write, 'but in the middle, and El Monte and South El Monte have always been in the middle.'" * Los Angeles Times, The 10 best California books of 2020 *"It can and should be an inspiration for likeminded collaborative and multi-disciplinary projects seeking to redress the many wrongs of exclusive historical memory. As stated in the epilogue, localized areas like greater El Monte are often active in national and transnational operations of many kinds 'in broader networks of trade, work, kinship, culture and migration.' This book provides a solid grounding in better understanding these interrelationships, even as 'the rest of its stories have yet to be told.'" * The Public Historian *"A tale of two cities: El Monte’s battle to preserve its Latinx history," by Erik Adams * University Times *"Ethnic Studies Comes Into The Classroom And Onto The Streets," by Julia Barajas * LAist *Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Burn the Wagon: Finding Silenced Histories, Lost Intersections, and Radical Possibilities in Greater El MonteRomeo Guzmán, Carribean Fragoza, Alex Sayf Cummings, and Ryan Reft Part I Origins and Departures1 The Tongva PeopleAurelie Roy2 Toypurina: A Legend Etched in the LandscapeMaria John3 From Alta California to American Statehood: Race, Change, and the Californio Pico FamilyRyan Reft4 Here Come the El Monte Boys: Vigilante Justice and Lynch Mobs in Nineteenth Century El MonteKaren Wilson and Dan Lynch Part II Social and Political Movements 5 Rise, Fall, Repeat: El Monte’s White Supremacy MovementsDaniel Cady6 Ricardo Flores Magón and Anarchist Movement in El MonteYesenia Barragan and Mark Bray7 Bitter Fruit: The El Monte Berry Strike of 1933Melquiades Fernandez8 Schools for All: The Desegregation Campaign in El MonteRachel Newman9 City of Achievement: The Making of the City of South El Monte, 1955-1976Nick Juravich10 La Lucha Continua! Gloria Arellanes and the Women of the Chicano MovementJuan Herrera11 Toward a Radical Arts Practice: Theater and Muralism during the Chicano MovementCarribean Fragoza12 American Dreams and Immigrant Realities in a South El Monte Shoe FactoryAdam Goodman13 Dreams of Escape and Belonging: The Making of Asian El MonteAlex Sayf Cummings Part IIINature and the Built Environment14 Hicks Camp: A Mexican BarrioDaniel Morales15 Life at Marrano Beach: The Lost Barrio Beach of Los AngelesDaniel Medina16 From Small Farming to Urban Agriculture: El Monte Subsistence HomesteadingRyan Reft17 A Community Erased: Japanese Americans in El Monte and the Greater SGVAndre Kobayashi Deckrow18 Whittier Narrows Park: A Story of Water, Power, and DisplacementDavid Reid19 Transportational El Monte, From the Red Car to the FreewayRyan Reft20 The Starlite Swap MeetJennifer Renteria Part IVPopular Culture21 El Monte’s Wild Past: A History of Gay’s Lion FarmMichael Weller22 Memories of El Monte: Art Laboe’s Charmed Life on the AirJude Webre23 El Monte’s Wildweed: Biraciality and the Punk Ethos of The Gun Club’s Jeffrey Lee PierceTroy Andreas Araiza Kokinis24 The Punk and the SeamstressApolonio Morales25 A Gay Bar, Some Familia, and Latina Butch-Femme: Rounding out the Eastside Circle at El Monte’s Sugar ShackStacy I. Macías26 All the Zumba Ladies: Reclaiming Bodies and Space through Serious Booty-ShakingCarribean Fragoza Part V Literary Cartographies27 1181 Durfee Avenue: 1983 to 1986Michael Jaime-Becerra28 Train versus Pedestrian on Valley BoulevardAlex Espinoza29 Epiphany Catholic ChurchToni Margarita Plummer30 Rush StreetCarribean Fragoza31 Durfee AvenueSalvador PlascenciaEpilogue: East of East: Suburban Cosmopolitanism in the San Gabriel ValleyWendy Cheng AcknowledgmentsSelected BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex
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