Regional and area planning Books

Book SynopsisAs the Regional Plan Association embarks on a Fourth Regional Plan, there can be no better time for a paperback edition of David Johnson's critically acclaimed assessment of the 1929 Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs. As he says in his preface to this edition, the questions faced by the regional planners of today are little changed from those their predecessors faced in the 1920s.Derided by some, accused by others of being the root cause of New York City's relative economic and physical decline, the 1929 Plan was in reality an important source of ideas for many projects built during the New Deal era of the 1930s.In his detailed examination of the Plan, Johnson traces its origins to Progressive era and Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago. He describes the making of the Plan under the direction of Scotsman Thomas Adams, its reception in the New York Region, and its partial realization.The story he tells has important lessons for plaTrade Review'Deals with matters of major interest both to geographers and to planners...a fascinating...vivid and spellbinding story...I strongly recommend this well-written and provocative book. The answers about events and ideas of seventy years ago are relevant today.' - Environment and Planning, 1998...provides the reader with a detailed case study of the plan-making process...a rich resource...Professor Johnson is to be commended for the meticulous research and interesting writing and presentation..." - Town Planning ReviewTable of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition. Preface. 1. Introduction 2. The Making of the New York Metropolitan Region 3. The Emergence of a Planning Tradition 4. First Steps Towards a Metropolitan Regional Plan 5. The Search for Scope and Substance 6. Technological and Ideological Inputs 7. From Survey to Plan 8. Conflict Amidst Planning: Three Decisions 9. Carrying Out the Plan: 1929 to 1941 10. Plan and Reality: 1965 11. The Regional Plan as an Artefact and Process

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Book SynopsisThe newly revised Globalizing Cities Reader reflects how the geographies of theory have recently shifted away from the western vantage points from which much of the classic work in this field was developed. The expanded volume continues to make available many of the original and foundational works that underpin the research field, while expanding coverage to familiarize students with new theoretical and epistemological positions as well as emerging research foci and horizons. It contains 38 new chapters, including key writings on globalizing cities from leading thinkers such as John Friedmann, Michael Peter Smith, Saskia Sassen, Peter Taylor, Manuel Castells, Anthony King, Jennifer Robinson, Ananya Roy, and Fulong Wu. The new Reader reflects the fact that world and global city studies have evolved in exciting and wide-ranging ways, and the very notion of a distinct global class of cities has recently been called into question. The sections examine the foundationTable of ContentsList of PlatesLists of figuresList of tablesList of contributors Editor’s Introduction to Second EditionAcknowledgementsPART 1 FOUNDATIONSIntroduction to Part One1.0 PrologueThe Metropolitan Explosion Peter Hall1.1 Divisions of Space and Time in Europe Fernand Braudel1.2 World City Formation: An Agenda for Research and ActionJohn Friedmann and Goetz Wolff1.3 Locating Cities on Global Circuits Saskia Sassen1.4 Urban Specialization in the World SystemNestor Rodriguez and Joe Feagin1.5 Accumulation and Comparative Urban SystemsJohn Walton1.6 The World-System Perspective and UrbanizationMichael Timberlake1.7 Global City Formation in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles: An Historical PerspectiveJanet Abu-Lughod1.8 Global and World Cities: A View from Off the MapJennifer Robinson1.9 Space in the Globalizing CityPeter MarcusePART 2 PATHWAYSIntroduction to Part Two2.0 PrologueIstanbul was our past, Istanbul is our futureHamid Dabashi2.1 The City as a Landscape of Power: London and New York as Global Financial CapitalsSharon Zukin2.2 Detroit and Houston: Two Cities in Global PerspectiveRichard C. Hill and Joe Feagin2.3 The Stimulus of a Little Confusion: A Contemporary Comparison of Amsterdam and Los AngelesEdward Soja 2.4 Global City Zurich: Paradigms of Urban DevelopmentChristian Schmid2.5 From ‘State-Owned’ to ‘City Inc.’: The Re-territorialization of the State in ShanghaiFulong Wu 2.6 The Dream of Delhi as a Global CityVeronica Dupont 2.7 ‘Fourth World’ Cities in the Global Economy: The Case of Phnom PenhGavin Shatkin 2.8 Medellín and Bogotá: The Global Cities of the Other GlobalizationEduardo MendietaPART 3 RELATIONSIntroduction to Part Three3.0 PrologueSpecification of the World City NetworkPeter Taylor3.1 Local and Global: Cities in Network SocietyManuel Castells3.2 Comparing London and Frankfurt as World Cities: A Relational Study of Contemporary Urban ChangeJonathan V. Beaverstock, Michael Hoyler, Kathryn Pain, and Peter J. Taylor3.3 Global Grids of Glass: On Global Cities, Telecommunication and Planetary Urban NetworksStephen Graham3.4 Global Cities and the Spread of Infectious Disease: The Case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Toronto, CanadaS. Harris Ali and Roger Keil3.5 Flying High (in the Competitive Sky): Conceptualizing the Role of Airports in Global City-Regions through ‘Aero-Regionalism’Jean-Paul Addie3.6 One Package at a Time: The Distributive World CityCynthia Negrey, Jeffery L. Osgood, and Frank Goetzke3.7 Global Cities between Biopolitics and Necropolitics: (In)Security and Circuits of Knowledge in the Global City NetworkDavid Murakami-Wood3.8 The Virtual Palimpsest of the Global City NetworkMark Graham3.9 Relationality/territoriality: Toward conceptualization of cities in the worldEugene McCann and Kevin Ward PART 4 REGULATIONSIntroduction to Part Four4.0 PrologueThe Global City as World OrderWarren Magnusson4.1 Globalization and the Rise of City-regionsAllen J. Scott4.2 Global Cities, ‘Global States’: Global City Formation and State Territorial Restructuring in Contemporary EuropeNeil Brenner 4.3 Global Cities and Developmental States: Tokyo and SeoulRichard Child Hill and June Woo Kim4.4 World City Formation on the Asia Pacific Rim: Poverty, "Everyday" Forms of Civil Society and Environmental ManagementMike Douglass4.5 New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban StrategyNeil Smith4.6 Between World History and State Formation: New Perspectives on Africa’s CitiesLaurent Fourchard 4.7 The ‘Right to the City’: Institutional Imperatives of a Developmental StateSusan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse4.8 Global Cities’ vs. ‘global cities:’ Rethinking Contemporary Urbanism as Public EcologyTimothy W. LukePART 5 CONTESTATIONSIntroduction to Part Five5.0 PrologueFrom Tahrir Square to Emaar Square: Cairo's private road to a private cityMohamed Elshahed5.1 Local Actors in Global PoliticsSaskia Sassen5.2 The Right to the CityDavid Harvey5.3 Urban Social Movements in an Era of GlobalizationMargit Mayer5.4 São Paulo: The City and its ProtestTeresa Caldeira5.5 Global City Building in China and its DiscontentsXuefei Ren 5.6 Between Ghetto and Globe: Remaking Urban Life in AfricaAbdouMaliq Simone5.7 World Cities and Union RenewalSteven Tufts 5.8 Blockupy Fights Back: Global City Formation in Frankfurt am Main after the Financial CrisisSebastian Schipper, Lucas Pohl, Tino Petzold, Daniel Mullis, and Bernd BelinaPART 6 CULTUREIntroduction to Part Six6.0 Prologue: High Culture and Hard LaborAndrew Ross6.1 World Cities: Global? Postcolonial? Postimperial? Or Just the Result of Happenstance? Some Cultural CommentsAnthony King6.2 "Global Media Cities": Major Nodes of Globalising Culture and Media IndustriesStefan Kratke 6.3 Willing the Global City: Berlin’s Cultural Strategies of Inter-Urban Competition after 1989Ute Lehrer6.4 The Transnational Capitalist Class and Contemporary Architecture in Globalizing CitiesLeslie Sklair 6.5 Shanghai Nightscapes and Ethnosexual Contact ZonesJames Farrer and Andrew Field6.6 Graffiti or Street Art? Negotiating the Moral Geographies of the Creative CityCameron McAuliffe 6.7 Spaces and Networks of Musical Creativity in the city Allan Watson, Michael Hoyler and Christoph Mager6.8 Provincializing the Global City: From Bombay to MumbaiRashimi VarmaPART 7 FRONTIERSIntroduction to Part Seven7.0 PrologueWorld CityDoreen Massey7.1 The Global Cities Discourse: A Return to the Master Narrative?Michael Peter Smith7.2 External Urban Relational Processes: Introducing Central Flow Theory to Complement Central Place TheoryPeter J. Taylor, Michael Hoyler and Raf Verbruggen7.3 Beyond the Global City Concept and the Myth of ‘Command and Control’Richard G. Smith7.4 World Cities under Conditions of Financialized Globalization: Towards an Augmented World City HypothesisDavid Bassens and Michiel van Meeteren7.5 Can the Straw Man Speak? An Engagement with Postcolonial Critiques of ‘Global Cities Research’Michiel van Meeteren, Ben Derudder, and David Bassens7.6 Global SuburbanizationRoger Keil7.7 What is Urban about Critical Urban Theory?Ananya Roy7.8 Planetary UrbanizationNeil Brenner and Christian Schmid7.9 New Geographies of Theorizing the Urban: Putting Comparison to Work for Global Urban StudiesJennifer Robinson7.10 Governing the Informal in Globalizing Cities: Comparing China, India, and BrazilXuefei Ren7.11 The Urban RevolutionHenri LefebvreIndex

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Book SynopsisHeterotopia, literally meaning âother placeâ, is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings. The term has had an impact on architectural and urban theory since it was coined by Foucault in the late 1960s but it has remained a source of confusion and debate since. Heterotopia and the City seeks to clarify this concept and investigates the heterotopias which exist throughout our contemporary world: in museums, theme parks, malls, holiday resorts, gated communities, wellness hotels and festival markets. With theoretical contributions on the concept of heterotopia, including a new translation of Foucaultâs influential 1967 text, Of Other Space and essays by well-known scholars, the book comprises a series of critical case studies, from Beaubourg to Bilbao, which probe a range of (post)urban transformations and which redirect thTable of ContentsPart 1: Heterotopology: ‘A Science in the Making’ Part 2: Heterotopia Revisited Part 3: The Mall as Agora: The Agora as Mall Part 4: Dwelling in a Postcivil Society Part 5: Terrains Vagues: Transgression and Urban Activism Part 6: Heterotopia in the Splintering Metropolis Part 7: Heterotopia After the Polis

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Book SynopsisThroughout the world, the threat of climate change is pressing governments to accelerate the deployment of technologies to generate low carbon electricity or heat. But this is frequently leading to controversy, as energy and planning policies are revised to support new energy sources or technologies (e.g. offshore wind, tidal, bioenergy or hydrogen energy) and communities face the prospect of unfamiliar, often large-scale energy technologies being sited near to their homes. Policy makers in many countries face tensions between ''streamlining'' planning procedures, engaging with diverse publics to address what is commonly conceived as ''NIMBY'' (not in my back yard) opposition, and the need to maintain democratic, participatory values in planning systems. This volume provides a timely, international review of research on public engagement, in contexts of diverse, innovative energy technologies. Public engagement is conceived broadly - as the interaction between how developers Trade Review'Public acceptance is key to the development of the renewable energy we need to meet our climate goals. Simple stereotypes of NIMBY opposition may work in newspaper headlines, but developers and policymakers need a more sophisticated understanding of what makes people tick and how best to engage. This new volume meets a pressing need - both academics and practitioners will gain from it.' Prof Jim Skea, Research Director, UK Energy Research Centre 'This book provides a broad survey of public perceptions and community reactions to building new low-carbon energy facilities. The chapters treat community resistance (and support) as systematic phenomena to be scientifically studied, opening possibilities for creative action. This is a welcome antidote to the typical reaction by engineers and project developers, treating public opinion as an immutable black box.' Prof. Willett Kempton, Center for Carbon-free Power Integration, University of Delaware, USA 'Extensive research has been done over the last decades on both mitigation and adaptation to climate change in the built environment, but the outputs of much of this research have failed to result in the wider uptake of effective greenhouse gas emission reduction solutions. This book introduces 'fresh thinking' on how this may be done- with chapters from leading experts in fields ranging from philosophy, the social, political and physical sciences, engineering, architecture, mathematics and complexity science.' Renew Magazine 'Patrick Devine-Wright's Renewable Energy and the Public: From NIMBY to Participation takes a broad, multidisciplinary approach to the issue of public engagement for renewable energy products. A multitude of contributors offer a variety of theoretical and empirical analyses of the issue, all of which support Devine-Wright's core argument that traditional means of conceptualizing public and stakeholder positions on renewable energy are overly simplistic, and public engagement processes based on these depictions are insufficient for pursuing the goal of increased renewable energy use in a fair and democratic way.' - Damian Pitt, Journal of Planning Education and ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction (Patrick Devine-Wright, University of Exeter, UK) Section 1: Conceptual approaches 1. Symmetries, expectations, dynamics and contexts: a framework for understanding public engagement with renewable energy projects (Walker, University of Lancaster, UK, and colleagues) 2. The principles, procedures, and pitfalls of public engagement in decision-making about renewable energy (Haggett, University of Edinburgh, UK) 3. Beyond consensus? Agonism, republicanism and a low carbon future (Barry and Ellis, Queens' University, Belfast, N. Ireland) 4. Public roles and socio-technical configurations: diversity in renewable energy deployment in the UK and its implications (Walker and Cass, University of Lancaster, UK) 5. From Backyards to Places: Public engagement and the emplacement of renewable energy technologies (Patrick Devine-Wright, University of Exeter, UK) Section 2: Empirical studies of public engagement Part 1: Stakeholder and media representations of public engagement 6. Discourses on the implementation of wind power: Stakeholder views on public engagement (Wolsink, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) 7. Governing the Reconfiguration of Energy in Greater London: Practical Public Engagement as 'Delivery' (Hodson and Marvin, University of Salford, UK) 8. Envisioning public engagement with renewable energy: an empirical analysis of images within the UK National Press 2006/7 (Hannah Devine-Wright, University of Manchester, UK) 9. NIMBYism and community consultation in electricity transmission network planning (Cotton and Patrick Devine-Wright, University of Exeter, UK) Part 2: Case studies of public beliefs and responses Future energy scenarios 10. Turning the heat on: Public engagement in Australia's energy future (Ashworth, Littleboy, Graham & Niemeyer, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia) Solar energy and microgeneration 11. Shaping people's engagement with microgeneration technology: the case of solar photovoltaics in UK homes (Abi-Ghanem, Imperial College London and Haggett, University of Edinburgh, UK) 12. Siting Solar Power in Arizona: A Public Value Failure? (Pasqualetti and Schwartz, Arizona State University, USA) 13. Socio-Environmental Research on Energy Sustainable Communities: Participation Experiences of Two Decades (Schweizer-Ries, University of Saarland, Germany) 14. Yes in my back yard: UK householders pioneering microgeneration heat (Roy and Caird and Roy, Open University, UK) Wind energy 15. Socio-environmental impacts of Brazil's first large-scale wind farm (Improta and Pinheiro, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil) 16. Perceptions and Preferences Regarding Offshore Wind Power in the United States - The Leading Edge of a New Energy Source for the Americas (Firestone, University of Delaware, USA) Hydrogen energy: 17. The limits of upstream engagement in an emergent technology: lay perceptions of hydrogen energy technologies (Flynn, Bellaby and Ricci, University of Salford, UK) 18. Public engagement with wind-hydrogen energy technology: a comparative study (Sherry-Brennan, Devine-Wright and Devine-Wright, University of Exeter, UK) Marine energy 19. Symbolic interpretations of wave energy in the UK: surfers' perspectives (McLachlan, University of Manchester, UK) Bioenergy 20. Heat and light: understanding bioenergy siting controversy (Upham, University of Manchester, UK) Nuclear and low carbon energy 21. From the Material to the Imagined: Public Engagement with Low Carbon Technologies in a Nuclear Community (Butler, Parkhill and Pidgeon, Cardiff University, Wales, UK) Conclusions (Devine-Wright, University of Exeter, UK)

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Book SynopsisThrough the analysis of several commemorative acts in space, matter and image, namely museums and memorials, this book reflects on the ways in which architecture as a discipline, a practice and a discourse represents the Holocaust. In doing so, it problematises how one presents an extreme historical case in a contemporary context and integrates the historical into actuality. By examining several cases, the book defines the issues faced by various architects who dealt with this topic and discusses their separate and distinctive approaches. In each case, it analyses the ways in which the cultural and political contexts of commemoration led to a different interpretation of the condition. Focusing on the Ghetto Fighters' House, the world's first Holocaust museum; Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem; the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington; and the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, the book discusses how the representation of history by architecture creates a Trade Review'In this personal, yet deeply learned exploration of Holocaust commemoration on the cusp of "new media," Eran Neuman examines an age when physical memorials and architectural representation of Holocaust memory become something else altogether. Shoah Presence: Architectural Representations of the Holocaust is a sensitive meditation on the ways aesthetic spaces in the landscape conjure internal memory spaces within us.' James E. Young, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA ’This book studies Holocaust museums on the premise that their location away from the site of trauma poses an intriguing set of representational, philosophical and even political problems. Neuman’s brilliant and thorough analysis brings the reader into the heart of the multi-layered contestations about what architecture should or should not do in these contexts.’ Mark Jarzombek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Holocaust Commemoration and Architectural Representation; Chapter 1 Dwelling in Monumentality: Presence and Memory in the Ghetto Fighters’ Kibbutz; Chapter 2 Monumental Holocaust Landscapes at Yad Vashem; Chapter 3 “The Events you are about to Experience are Real”: Authenticity at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum; Chapter 4 Diagramming Memory: Peter Eisenman’s Holocaust Memorial in Berlin; epi Epilogue: Presencing the Holocaust;

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Book SynopsisNew Mobilities Regimes analyses how global mobilities are changing the world of today and the role of political and economic power. Bringing together essays by leading scholars and social scientists, including Mimi Sheller and BÃlent Diken with the work of well-known artists and art theorists such as Jordan Crandall, Ursula Bieman, GÃlsÃn Karamustafa and Dan Perjovschi this book is a unique document of the cross-disciplinary mobility and power discourse. The specific design, integrating the text and art elements to create a singular dialogue makes for an exciting intellectual and aesthetic experience. Illustrated by a range of studies which examine the regulation and structure of mobility, such as the daily routines of teleworkers, Ukrainian cleaners in Western Europe, the mobility policies of global corporations, and the impact of bicycle policies on public space, New Mobilities Regimes emphasizes the routes and crossroads of migration flows as well as at the interaction of mobility Table of ContentsAcknowledgements, List of Figures, Notes on Contributors, Preface, Drawings by Dan Perjovschi precede each Part of the book, Introduction, 1. Mobility and the Image-Based Research of Art, 2. The New Mobilities Regimes, Prologue, 3. Agency, Mobility, and the Timespace of Tracking, Work in Motion, 4 An Enterprise in Her Own Four Walls: Teleworking, 5. Aeromobility Regimes in Commercial Aviation: The Mobile Work and Life Arrangements of Flight Crews, 6. Beyond Privilege: Conceptualizing Mobilities Inside Multinational Corporations, 7. One-Way Ticket? International Labor Mobility of Ukrainian Women, Modalities of Migration, 8. Stopover: An Excerpt from the Network of Actor-Oriented Mobility Movements, 9. Lisl Ponger’s Passages – In-between Tourism and Migration, 10. Unawarded Performances, 11. Counter-Geographies in the Sahara, 12. Transnational Migration, Clandestinity, and Globalization – Sub-Saharan Transmigrants in Morocco, Camp Politics, 13. DMZ Embassy: Border Region of Active Intermediate Space, 14. Mobility and the Camp, 15. X-Mission, 16. The Politics of Mobility: Some Insights from the Study of Protest Camps, 17. All Aboard! Exploring the Role of the Vehicle in Contemporary Spatial Inquiry, Spacing Mobilities – Mobilization of Space, 18. Physics of Images – Images of Physics + “Rundum” Photography, 19. Mobility Regimes and Air Travel: Examples from an Indonesian Airport, 20. The Power of Urban Mobility: Shaping Experiences, Emotions, and Selves on a Bike, 21. Experiencing Mobility – Mobilizing Experience, 22. Airport-Studies, Intercontinental, Territorium, 23. Mobile Mediality: Location, Dislocation, Augmentation, Epilogue, 24. Mobility Futures: Moving On and Breaking Through on an Empty Tank, Appendices: Abstracts English/German, Index

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the iconic architectural cultural spaces of the contemporary cityscape as engines of regeneration. Promising much to their fading locales, these spaces locate culture in the space where production once ruled in order to revitalise post-industrial urban provinces. With close attention to four sites across the UK, Urban Constellations engages with the work of Walter Benjamin and Jean Baudrillard, to read these spaces and in so doing, offer a critical intervention into the theory and experience of contemporary cityscapes. Developing the notion of surface ethnography as a methodological approach to examining the form of cultural experience produced by urban cultural spaces, the author sheds light on the manner in which they transform cultural spectatorship, express wider political and ecological concerns and offer differing views to the 'native' and the 'tourist' in the construction of local history. The book also examines the decline of the idea that iconic projTrade Review’Nobody concerned with the contemporary city can afford to ignore Urban Constellations. Its analyses of the dreamscapes of regeneration are timely, exacting, and critical in the best sense of that term; they are also deeply moving.’ Ben Highmore, University of Sussex, UK ’Fizzing with ideas, this inspired analysis investigates the spectacular cultural temples erected in British post-industrial cities at the turn of the 20th century. Such flagship projects are often depicted as hollow shrines to superficial consumption, yet here, drawing on theories from Benjamin and Baudrillard, they are read against the grain. While Zoë Thompson acknowledges the banal commodification of place and culture inherent in these grand designs, her sophisticated exploration reveals overlooked ecologies and histories, unexpected fragments of the past and unforeseen twists that disrupt dreams of seamlessness and offer alternative approaches for critical scrutiny.’ Tim Edensor, Manchester Metropolitan University, UKTable of ContentsUrban Constellations

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Book SynopsisPeter Eisenman is one of the most controversial protagonists of the architectural scene, who is known as much for his theoretical essays as he is for his architecture. While much has been written about his built works and his philosophies, most books focus on one or the other aspect. By structuring this volume around the concept of form, Stefano Corbo links together Eisenman's architecture with his theory. From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman argues that form is the sphere of mediation between our body, our inner world and the exterior world and, as such, it enables connections to be made between philosophy and architecture. From the start of his career on, Eisenman has been deeply interested in the problem of form in architecture and has constantly challenged the classical concept of it. For him, form is not simply a cognitive tool that determines a physical structure, which discriminates all that is active from what is passive, what is insidTrade Review'Despite his significant impact on architecture through both built and theoretical works, most studies of Peter Eisenman's career focus on either one aspect or the other. In From Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman, Stefano Corbo attempts to redress this balance, connecting themes in the design and the theory of the influential architect across the many stages of his 50-year career.' arch dailyTable of ContentsFrom Formalism to Weak Form: The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman

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Book SynopsisIn his landmark volume Space, Time and Architecture, Sigfried Giedion paired images of two iconic spirals: Tatlin's Monument to the Third International and Borromini's dome for Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza. The values shared between the baroque age and the modern were thus encapsulated on a single page spread. As Giedion put it, writing of Sant'Ivo, Borromini accomplished ''the movement of the whole pattern [...] from the ground to the lantern, without entirely ending even there.'' And yet he merely ''groped'' towards that which could ''be completely effected'' in modern architecture-achieving ''the transition between inner and outer space.'' The intellectual debt of modern architecture to modernist historians who were ostensibly preoccupied with the art and architecture of earlier epochs is now widely acknowledged. This volume extends this work by contributing to the dual projects of the intellectual history of modern architecture and the history of architectural historiography. It consideTable of ContentsChapter 1 Defining a Problem: Modern Architecture and the Baroque Chapter 2 Engaging the Past: Albert Ilg’s Die Zukunft des Barockstil Chapter 3 Großstadt as Barockstadt: Art History, Advertising and the Surface of the Neo-Baroque Chapter 4 The “Restless Allure” of (Architectural) Form: Space and Perception between Germany, Russia and the Soviet Union Chapter 5 Geoffrey Scott, the Baroque, and the Picturesque Chapter 6 Against Formalism: Aspects of the Historiography of the Baroque in Weimar Germany, 1918–33 Chapter 7 Riegl and Wölfflin in Dialogue on the Baroque Chapter 8 Beyond the Vienna School: Sedlmayr and Borromini Chapter 9 Pevsner’s Kunstgeographie: From Liepzig’s Baroque to the Englishness of Modern English Architecture Chapter 10 The Future of the Baroque, c. 1945 Chapter 11 Giedion as Guide: Space, Time and Architecture and the Modernist Reception of Baroque Rome Chapter 12 Reading Aalto through the Baroque: Constituent Facts, Dynamic Pluralities, and Formal Latencies Chapter 13 Taking the Sting out of the Baroque: Wittkower, 1958 Chapter 14 Pierre Charpentrat and Baroque Functionalism 15 From Spatial Feeling to Functionalist Design: Contrasting Representations of the Baroque in Steen Eiler Rasmussen’s Experiencing Architecture Chapter 16 From Michelangelo to Borromini: Bruno Zevi and Operative Criticism Chapter 17 Between History and Design: The Baroque Legacy in the Work of Paolo Portoghesi Chapter 18 Steinberg’s Complexity Chapter 19 The “Recurrence” of the Baroque in Architecture: Giedion and Norberg-Schulz’s Approaches to Constancy and Change Chapter 20 The Future of the Baroque, c. 1980

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Book SynopsisWritten for use in undergraduate and postgraduate planning courses and for those involved in all aspects of the planning process, this comprehensive textbook focuses on environmental impact assessment and design and in particular their impact on planning for the landscape. Table of ContentsPreface PART 1 Landscape Planning 1 Will planning die? 2 Landscape plans 3 Context theories PART 2 Environmental Impact Design 4 Public open space 5 Reservoirs 6 Mineral working 7 Agriculture 8 Forests 9 Rivers and floods 10 Transport 11 Urbanization Appendix: Environmental impact questions

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Book SynopsisPractical how-to information for conservation-minded urban-planning professionals is provided in this invaluable guide. The importance of natural lands or open space in master-planned communities is thoroughly explained and coupled with examples of conservation-oriented housing developments that incorporate this key component.

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Book SynopsisDespite all the talk of sustainability, there has not been enough action to halt or reverse the impacts of climate change. Decades after the Rio Earth Summit and despite the many policies and commitments to move toward sustainable development, there continues to be a serious implementation gap.Implementing Sustainable Development focuses on the challenges of turning international commitments and policy promises into local action. Through global examples and cases, the authors examine not only the core principles, but also successful and failed efforts to address the social, environmental, and economic dimensions of sustainable development. They systematically guide readers through the technical, legal, economic, administrative, political, ethical, and cultural feasibility of putting sustainable development solutions in place. Based on broad research, Claudia María Vargas and Phillip J. Cooper offer a practical and useful approach to identifying and addressing policy implementation challengeswhat works, what doesn't, and why.Features of this thoroughly revised second edition include: Dozens of case studies from the throughout the world An overview of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Action-oriented solutions to the challenges of sustainable development Careful consideration of local and indigenous knowledge Key issues of equity, equality, and the importance of community involvement

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Book SynopsisDespite all the talk of sustainability, there has not been enough action to halt or reverse the impacts of climate change. Decades after the Rio Earth Summit and despite the many policies and commitments to move toward sustainable development, there continues to be a serious implementation gap.Implementing Sustainable Development focuses on the challenges of turning international commitments and policy promises into local action. Through global examples and cases, the authors examine not only the core principles, but also successful and failed efforts to address the social, environmental, and economic dimensions of sustainable development. They systematically guide readers through the technical, legal, economic, administrative, political, ethical, and cultural feasibility of putting sustainable development solutions in place. Based on broad research, Claudia María Vargas and Phillip J. Cooper offer a practical and useful approach to identifying and addressing policy implementation challengeswhat works, what doesn't, and why.Features of this thoroughly revised second edition include: Dozens of case studies from the throughout the world An overview of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Action-oriented solutions to the challenges of sustainable development Careful consideration of local and indigenous knowledge Key issues of equity, equality, and the importance of community involvement

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Book SynopsisThis title explains an alternative living arrangement that provides shelter and security, convenience, comfort and meaning. The author (and architect) describes existing pocket neighbourhoods and provides inspiration for new ones. This title is suitable for architects and homeowners who crave a greater sense of community where they live. The typical American neighbourhood is impersonal, made up of large houses on large lots, with large garages whose remote openers provide residents instant access inside. There's never any need to see or be seen! The good news is that a growing number of homeowners are saying they want more. Pocket neighbourhoods are alternative living arrangements that provide shelter and security, convenience, comfort and meaning. In a typical pocket neighbourhood, parking is intentionally separated from houses, which surround a landscaped common area. Homeowners walk to their doors, past the neighbours they might otherwise never know. This book by architect and author Ross Chapin describes existing pocket neighbourhoods and co-housing communities and provides inspiration for creating new ones.

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