Urban and municipal planning and policy Books

Book SynopsisOne hundred years ago, the Addison Act created the circumstances for the large scale construction of municipal housing in the UK. This would lead to the most prolific phases of housing estate building the country has ever seen. The legacy of this historic period has been tackled for the last twenty-five years as these estates began to suffer from misguided allocation policies, systemic building and fabric failure and financial austerity. A series of estate regeneration programmes sought to rectify the mistakes of the past. Estate Regeneration describes 24 of these regeneration schemes from across the UK and the design philosophy and resident engagement which formed each new community. A number of essays from a wide range of industry experts amplify the learning experience from some key estate regeneration initiatives and provide observations on the broader issues of this sector of the housing market. Regeneration is inevitable; it is a matter of the form whTable of ContentsPart One: PioneeringEssay: The Peckham Partnership - Michael HillBrownfield EstateBow CrossSilwood Estate Tredegar EstatePart Two: PragmaticEssay: Regeneration - Brendan SarsfieldThe City MillsOrchard VillagePackington EstateParkside PlaceThe AmericasPart Three: UtopianEssay: Regeneration, turning threat into opportunity - Paul BridgeLakewoodParkside EstateDevonportOval QuarterLauriestonApple GrovePart Four: EvolutionaryEssay: Housing Regeneration, why is it so difficult? - Peter Bishop Maiden LaneAberfeldy New VillageStockwell Park EstatePark CentralSouth Kilburn EstatePart Five: VisionaryEssay: The Future - Manisha PatelPortobello SquareChobham ManorClapham ParkHigh Path Estate

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Book SynopsisOne hundred years ago, the Addison Act created the circumstances for the large scale construction of municipal housing in the UK. This would lead to the most prolific phases of housing estate building the country has ever seen. The legacy of this historic period has been tackled for the last twenty-five years as these estates began to suffer from misguided allocation policies, systemic building and fabric failure and financial austerity. A series of estate regeneration programmes sought to rectify the mistakes of the past. Estate Regeneration describes 24 of these regeneration schemes from across the UK and the design philosophy and resident engagement which formed each new community. A number of essays from a wide range of industry experts amplify the learning experience from some key estate regeneration initiatives and provide observations on the broader issues of this sector of the housing market. Regeneration is inevitable; it is a matter of the form whTable of ContentsPart One: PioneeringEssay: The Peckham Partnership - Michael HillBrownfield EstateBow CrossSilwood Estate Tredegar EstatePart Two: PragmaticEssay: Regeneration - Brendan SarsfieldThe City MillsOrchard VillagePackington EstateParkside PlaceThe AmericasPart Three: UtopianEssay: Regeneration, turning threat into opportunity - Paul BridgeLakewoodParkside EstateDevonportOval QuarterLauriestonApple GrovePart Four: EvolutionaryEssay: Housing Regeneration, why is it so difficult? - Peter Bishop Maiden LaneAberfeldy New VillageStockwell Park EstatePark CentralSouth Kilburn EstatePart Five: VisionaryEssay: The Future - Manisha PatelPortobello SquareChobham ManorClapham ParkHigh Path Estate

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Book SynopsisIn both the UK and the US there is a sense of dissatisfaction and pessimism about the state of urban environments, particularly with the quality of everyday public spaces. Explanations for this have emphasized the poor quality of design that characterizes many new public spaces; spaces that are dominated by parking, roads infrastructure, introspective buildings, a lack of enclosure and a poor sense of place, and which in different ways for different groups are too often exclusionary.Yet many well designed public spaces have also experienced decline and neglect, as the services and activities upon which the continuing quality of those spaces have been subject to the same constraints and pressures for change as public services in general. These issues touch upon the daily management of public space, that is, the coordination of the many different activities that constantly define and redefine the characteristics and quality of public space.This book draws on three empirical projects to examine the questions of public space management on an international stage. They are set within a context of theoretical debates about public space, its history, contemporary patterns of use and changing nature in western society, and about the new management approaches that are increasingly being adopted.Table of ContentsPart 1: Conceptualising Public Space and its Management 1. The Use and Nature of Public Space 2. Public Space through History 3. Contemporary Debates and Public Space 4. A Typology of Management Approaches Part 2: Investigating Public Space Management 5. Three Studies, Three Related Research Approaches 6. One Country, Multiple Endemic Problems 7. One Country, Twelve Innovative Authorities 8. Eleven Countries, Eleven Innovative Cities 9. Eleven Innovative Cities, Many Ways Forward 10. Two World Cities, Three Iconic Spaces 11. Three Iconic Spaces, Two In-Depth Analyses 12. Debates, Problems and Possible Solutions

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Book SynopsisUrban Identity is the second in the successful Learning from Place series that draws upon the wealth of experience in the Academy of Urbanism. This edition deals with the subject of urban identity and character. Why is it that all modern towns and cities look the same, as they become dominated by identikit buildings, multi-national corporations, even arbitrarily imposed urban design rules? How can we preserve and foster the sense of local identity and character that so value without falling into the trap of historical pastiche?Four leading urban thinkers take this theme as the staring point for chapters on urban identity. The classical architect Robert Adam delivers a broadside to modern architecture that he sees as the multi-national face of globalism. The architect and academic John Worthington ponders the difference between how a place is seen, its identity and how it wants to be seen, its brand. While the architects Anthony Reddy from Ireland and Trade Review"Urban Identity brims with fascinating and sometimes controversial insights and opinions on urbanism." – LonaardTable of ContentsForeword. Introduction. Cities. Identity 01. Towns. Identity 02. Neighbourhoods. Streets. Identity 03. Places. Endpiece

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Book SynopsisFollowing on from the success of the first edition, Smartcities + Eco-Warriors (2010), this book is the latest innovative response on urban resilience from one of the worldâs leading urban design and architectural thinkers. An ecological symbiosis between nature, society and the built form, the Smartcity cultivates new spatial practices and creates diverse forms of resilient landscapes including and beyond urban agriculture.The notion of the Smartcity is developed through a series of international case studies, some commissioned by government organisations, others speculative and polemic. This second edition has nine new case studies, and additional ecological sustainability studies covering sensitivity, design criteria, and assessments for ecological construction plans. The book concludes with two new essays on the romance of trees and the empowering nature of resilient landscapes.Smartcities, Resilient Landscapes + Eco-warriors represents a crucial voice in thTable of ContentsPreface 1. Urban Utopias and the Smartcity. From Soil to Table. The Perpetual Motion Machine. The American Dream Redux. Rise of the Eco-warrior. Scenic Positions. Cultivating Community. Resilient Landscapes 2. A Lexicon for the Smartcity 3. Guangming Smartcity China 4. DuSable Park USA 5. Tangshan Earthquake Memorial Park China 6. Remembering the Great American Plains USA 7. Nordhavnen Smartcity Denmark 8. Daejeon Urban Renaissance South Korea 9. The Tomato Exchange UK 10. Central Open Space: MAC South Korea 11. The Linear Park China 12. A Workplace in a Garden Ireland 13. Guangming Energy Park China 14. Newark Gateway Project USA 15. The City of a Thousand Lakes China 16. Rifle Range Regeneration Malaysia 17. Dongyi Wan East Waterfront China 18. Brockholes Wetland + Woodland Reserve UK 19. The Green Pension Plan UK 20. Wanmu Orchard Wetland China 21. Romance + Resilience: Landscapes of the imagination 22. Anna Andronova The Grand Paris of Niger: Landscape of hope 23. Carolyn Steel Sitopia – The urban future 24. Project and Reproduction Credits Index

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Book SynopsisA new Urban Institute Press book offers a slate of reform opportunities for the ailing subprime mortgage market and provides one of the first comprehensive analyses of this still-evolving segment of the mortgage industry.

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Book SynopsisCommunity development refers to planned efforts aimed at producing assets to increase the ability and capacity of inhabitants to enhance quality of life. There are many types of assets recognized in community development, including social, physical, human, financial and environmental. Community development can be considered both as a process of developing the ability to act collectively, and an outcome: 1) taking collective action and 2) the result of that action for improvement in a community in any or all realms. A key feature within community development is the notion of social capital or social capacity, generally recognized by both researchers and practitioners as the resources embedded within relationships among people and organizations that help facilitate collaboration and cooperation. A rich history of community development shows the connection to engagement, advocacy, housing rights, anti-poverty and other socially focused concerns. The focus of planning entails the establishment of goals, policies, and procedures for a social or economic unit, such as in a city, community, region or nation. Community planning and development thus seeks to foster viable communities by promoting integrated approaches that provide decent housing, a suitable living environment, and expand economic opportunities for low and moderate income persons. This four-volume set covers the wide social, economic, political, environmental and urban contexts for community planning and development. Providing both foundation contexts as well as addressing current issues, the collection brings together the most relevant overviews and critiques of community planning and development, applicable to both developing and developed countries. The set is fully indexed, and provides a comprehensive overview newly written by the editor as well as an introduction for each volume. It provides an essential work of reference, designed to be useful to scholars, students, and researchers as a vital research resource.

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Book SynopsisThe most successful urban communities are very often those that are the most diverse in terms of income, age, family structure and ethnicity and yet poor urban design and planning can stifle the very diversity that makes communities successful. Just as poor urban design can lead to sterile monoculture, successful planning can support the conditions needed for diverse communities.This new edition addresses the physical requirements of socially diverse neighborhoods. Using the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburban areas as a case study, the authors investigate whether social diversity is related to particular patterns and structures found within the urban built environment. Design for Social Diversity provides urban designers and architects with design strategies and tools to ensure that their work sustains and nurtures social diversity.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Social Diversity and Design Part One: The Argument 2. Separation Vs. Diversity 3. Why Diversity? 4. Why Design Part Two: The Context 5. Patterns 6. The Interviews Part Three: The Strategies 7. Mix 8. Connection 9. Security 10. Conclusion: Policy And Process

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Book SynopsisInfrastructural Optimism investigates a new kind of twenty-first-century infrastructure, one that encourages a broader understanding of the interdependence of resources and agencies, recognizes a rightfully accelerated need for equitable access and distribution, and prioritizes rising environmental diligence across the design disciplines. Bringing together urban history, case studies, and speculative design propositions, the book explores and defines infrastructure as the basis for a new form of urbanism, emerging from the intersection of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. In defining this new infrastructure, the book introduces new dynamic and holistic performance metrics focused on measuring what matters over growth for the sake of growth and twelve criteria that define next generation infrastructure. By shifting the focus of infrastructure our largest public realm to environmental symbiosis and quality of life for all, design becomes a catalytic coTable of ContentsIntroduction. The Importance of Optimism1. Infrastructural Urbanism in the Expanded Field2. Reinventing Infrastructure: Why now?3. Infrastructural Opportunism: Three Strategies4. Infrastructural Opportunism: Two Cases5. Conclusion: Next Generation +10. Options for a Contentious Era6. Notes from Sheltering in Place

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Book SynopsisHybrid and mixed media create a huge variety of diagramming and drawing options for landscape representation. From Photoshop mixed with digital maps, to hand drawings overlaid with photos and modelling combined with sketches, the possibilities are endless.In this book, Amoroso curates over 20 leading voices from around the world to showcase the best in contemporary hybrid design. With over 200 colour images from talented landscape architeture students, this book will explore the options, methods and choices to show the innovative approaches that are offered to students and practitioners of landscape architecture. With worked examples in the chapters and downloadable images suitable for class use, this is an essential book for visual communication and design studios.Trade Review"Hybrid renderings of landscapes use a combination of hand drawing or model making and digital imaging. This book features chapters by a variety of landscape architects weighing in on hybrid illustrations, along with examples ranging from sophisticated work using CAD and Illustrator to one quick collage “sketch” layering graph paper, tracing paper, and a photo of the sky." - Landscape Architecture Magazine, June 2017The discussions surrounding models throughout Representing Landscapes: Hybrid are refreshing examinations of how three-dimensional studies are analytical, intuitive instruments for thinking. - Danika Cooper, JAE OnlineTable of Contents Foreword: Hybrid Drawing (Mikyoung Kim), 1. Introduction: Hybrid Representation: Breaking Free of the "Sameness" in Visual Communication in Landscape Architecture (Nadia Amoroso), 2. Maintaining Proximity: Balancing Intersections of Analogue and Digital Representations in Site Design (Maria Debije Counts), 3. Hybrid Drawing and the Invisible Landscape (Suzanne Mathew), 4. Qualitative Quantitative: Exploring Site Dualities through Drawing & Making (Roberto Rovira), 5. The Hybrid Zone in Divergent and Convergent Thinking (Sarah Little and Leehu Loon), 6. City of Raleigh: Testing Grounds (Carla Delcambre and Kofi Boone), 7. The Primacy of Hybridization within the Design Process: Thinking Through Making (Paul Russell and Martin J. Holland), 8. Siteless Landscapes: Hybridization of Conceptualizing Patterns, Working Grounds, and Siting/Programming (Yumi Lee), 9. Model-Minded: Conversations in 3D as Means for Exploring Design Alternatives in Urban Parks (Maria Debije Counts and Christopher Counts), 10. Ideation of Landscape Representation (Kelly Curl), 11.Mojave Future (Ken McCown), 12. Make No Scenes, Reveal the Unseen: Photographs, Photomontages and Mapping (Liska Chan and Anne Godfrey), 13. The Means of Physical Transference (Kris Fox), 14. White Pine County Line: Re Drawing and Re Making in the Rural Landscape Medium (Daniel H. Ortega and Jonathon R. Anderson), 15. Surveillance Practices: Drawing the Nature of Sites (Brian Osborn), 16. Memory and Forgetting Together (Kenny Fraser), 17. ‘Con-fusion’ of Rationality and Irrationality (Mauro Baracco), 18. Bigger MPs (Management Practices) (Sarah Cowles), 19. Hybrids — Institutional and Cartographic (Robert Gerard Pietrusko), 20. Complex Landscape, Simplified Representation: Integrating Data Driven and Idea Driven Technologies for Landscape Representation (Weimin Li), 21. Afterword: Representing Landscapes: Hybrid (Christopher Counts)

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Book SynopsisWith increasing awareness of the urgent need to respond to global warming by reducing carbon emissions and recognition of the social benefits of car-free and car-lite living, more and more city planners, advocates, and everyday urban dwellers are demanding new ways of building cities. In Low Car(bon) Communities, authors Nicole Foletta and Jason Henderson examine seven case studies in Europe and the United States that aim explicitly to reduce dependency on cars. Innovative and inspirational, these communities provide a rich array of data and metrics for comparison and analysis. This book considers these low car(bon) communities' potential for transferability to cities around the world, including North America.Aimed at practicing city planners, sustainable transportation advocates, and students in planning, geography, and environmental studies, this book will be an invaluable benchmark for gauging the success of sustainable urban futures. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Why Low Car(bon)? Global Warming, Cars, and Cities 2. Amsterdam: GWL Terrein Case Study 3. Freiburg: Vauban Case Study 4. San Francisco: Market and Octavia Case Study 5. Stockholm: Hammarby Sjöstad Case Study 6. Malmö: Västra Hamnen Case Study 7. London: Greenwich Millennium Village Case Study 8. The Randstad: Houten Case Study 9. Conclusions and Lessons Learned

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Book SynopsisThe German-American architect, art critic, and urban planner Ludwig Hilberseimer was central to avant-garde art and architecture in the Weimar Republic, an important Bauhaus teacher, and long-standing collaborator of leading modern architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.Despite being internationally-known for his work on Lafayette Park in Detroit, Hilberseimer's legacy as a whole has been obscured in the history of modern architecture. Whether this is due to the intense shadow cast by Mies, or by his oeuvre being split between the differing languages and contexts of interwar Germany and postwar North America, this book argues that the time is now right for a critical reassessment of Hilberseimer's work and writings.Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, this study clarifies and situates Hilberseimer's ideas both as an architect and writer, and examines their influeTrade ReviewScott Colman’s excellent new book Ludwig Hilberseimer: Reanimating Architecture and the City contributes fundamentally to our renewed appreciation of the often-misunderstood German émigré architect. The book offers the definitive English-language account of Hilberseimer’s intellectual formation, cultural commitments, and urban aspirations. * Charles Waldheim, Harvard University, USA *This insightful book is a vital contribution to our understanding of Ludwig Hilberseimer’s impact on modern architecture and urbanism. It presents a fresh and nuanced appraisal of this extraordinary designer’s modernism and its larger cultural relevance in the twentieth century. * Robin Schuldenfrei, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK and author of Objects in Exile: Modern Art and Design across Borders, 1930-1960 *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Preface Acknowledgments Note on Translation List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Individual 2. Hilberseimer's Theory of Art 3. Organicism and Morphology 4. The Metropolis as an Organism 5. The Metropolis and the Work of Art 6. The City-Building-Art 7. Spiritualizing the Metropolis 8. Polarizing the Metropolis 9. The Fate of the Metropolis 10. Basso Continuo 11. Hilberseimer and Dada 12. The Equivalence of Art and Life 13. Metropolis-Building Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFlavia Marcello is Professor of Architectural History at Swinburne University of Technology's School of Design, Australia.Trade ReviewThis book is not only a rich compendium of case studies of difficult heritage but also a significant contribution to an understanding of postwar architectural culture. Peeling back and reconstructing layers of meaning associated with key works of the Fascist Regime in Rome, the book will make the city more comprehensible and richer in historical associations. Flavia Marcello has illuminated this study with a humanist understanding that would not have been possible a few years ago. * Tim Benton, Open University, UK *After the Fall provides a detailed account of how key sites of fascist Rome have evolved and endured in the last century. Comprised of concise encyclopedic entries on monuments, buildings and sites, it will be a useful guide for all those interested in what has become of fascist Rome. * Stephanie Pilat, University of Oklahoma, USA *Flavia Marcello’s absorbing and richly detailed book explores the ongoing impact of Fascism and Italy’s evolving relationship to its history on Rome’s urban development and built environment. It will be invaluable reading for anyone with an interest in Rome’s historical and contemporary urban topography or in Italy’s complex and contested relationship with its Fascist past. * Sally Hill, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Note on Terms and Acronyms Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Mussolini’s Mark: Tracing the Legacy of Fascism in Rome’s Post-war Urban Planning Chapter 3: The Architecture of Fascist Rome between Politics and Practicality Chapter 4: The Fascist Phoenix: Virgilio Testa and the Resurrection of EUR Chapter 5: Mothers, Martyrs and Military Men: The Changing Meanings of Rome’s Fascist Monuments Chapter 6: Aspirations and Illusions of Control: Re-contextualising Rome’s Fascist Epigraphy A Conclusion for a Centenary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRooted in feminist political thought, She City illuminates how gender shapes our urban spaces and city design. Through three sections: ''Resisting Sexist Cities'', ''Designing Feminist Cities'', and ''Prioritizing Safer Cities'', Kalms examines barriers to women''s public participation and focuses on the practical strategies, policies and actions to overcome them.Addressing significant themes such as violence against women and gender-sensitive design, She City not only provides direction for practitioners but also inspires confidence to pursue new paths towards women-centered urban environments. This book is an essential resource for architects, urban designers, planners and the plethora of built environment specialists committed to building cities that truly meet the diverse needs of women and girls.Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface Acknowledgments 1. Women in Cities: An Introduction 2. Don't Stand So Close to Me: Sexist Street Harassment and Women's 'Safety Work' 3. Fake Happy: Hypersexual Cities and Women's Inequity 4. Missing Women: Smart Women in the Data Gap 5. Girls to the Front: Mainstreaming Women's Needs 6. Not Neutral: Designing Cities for Women 7. Expanding Expertise: Women's Safety Audits 8. Train Wreck: Public Transport and Women's Safety 9. Eyes on the Street: Women and Urban Crime Prevention 10. On the Edge of the Night: Women and the Nighttime Economy 11. Run the World: Co-design in a Feminist Framework References Index

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Book SynopsisHow might we best understand the relationship between the vibrant religious landscapes we see in many cities and contemporary urban social processes? Through case studies drawn from around the world, contributors explore the ways in which these processes interact in cities. This book argues that religious events including rituals, processions, and festivals are not only choreographies of sacred traditions, but they are also creative disruptions that reveal how urban cultural hierarchies are experienced and contested. Exposing the power dynamics behind these events, this book shows how performative uses of urban space serve to destabilize dominant genealogies and lineages around urban identities just as they lay claims to cultural supremacy or heritage. Through exploring the affective disruptions and political controversies caused by religious events, the contributors engage theoretical discussions in urban studies, the sociology of religion and the ethnography of ritual. This booTrade ReviewUrban Religious Events: Public Spirituality in Contested Spaces is a truly enjoyable read. The lively writing creates a vivid picture of processions, festivals and spectacles from Moscow to Rio de Janeiro and Madrid. The innovative concept of ‘urban religious events’ provides a convincing overall prism for analysis of events from lighting the hanukkiah in Barcelona, to jiu-jitsu parades in Brazil and practicing yoga on a bridge in Vancouver. * Lene Kühle, Professor of Sociology and Religion, Aarhus University, Denmark *Table of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: After the Secular City: Religion and Urban Effervescence 2. Religion in the Street: A popular neighborhood in Mexico City, Hugo José Suárez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico) 3. Staging Green Spirituality in the Parks of Lausanne and Geneva: A Spatial Approach to Urban Ecological Festivals, Irene Becci (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland) and Salomé Okoekpen 4. Constructing a Religioscape: The Case of Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow, Nadezda Rychkova (Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia) 5. Festivals of Religions and Religious Festivals: Heritigized Heterotopias, Alberta Giorgi (University of Bergamo, Italy) and Mariachiara Giorda (Roma Tre University, Italy) Part 2: The Politics of Religion in Urban Spaces: Power and Symbolism in the City 6. A Bridge Too Far: Yoga, Spirituality, and Contested Space in the Pacific Northwest, Paul Bramadat (University of Victoria, Canada) 7. “It’s the first Sukkah since the Inquisition!”: Jewish Celebrations in Public Spaces in Barcelona, Julia Martínez-Ariño (University of Groningen, the Netherlands) 8. Spatial Discourses of Sanctity as Means of Struggle and Empowerment in a Contested City, Nimrod Luz (Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel) 9. Decoding Strategic Secularism in Madrid: Religion as Ambience in Three Scenarios, Monica Cornejo-Valle (Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain) Part 3: Public Religious Rituals, Urban Transcendence and Embodied Spirituality 10. Urbi et Orbi: Pope Benedict’s Visit to Berlin and the Emplacement of Communicative Events, Hubert Knoblauch (TU Berlin, Germany) 11. Turning Spirituality into a Public Event: the Popularization of Collective Meditations and Mindfulness Marches in the Urban Space, Mar Griera (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), Anna Clot-Garrell (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) 12. God’s Warriors: Embodying Evangelical Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Rio de Janeiro, Raphael Schapira (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland) 13. Feeling Sufis: An essay on Intimate Religion in Berlin, Omar Kasmani (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) 14. Epilogue, Sophie Watson (The Open University, UK) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is about contemporary issues in architecture and urbanism, taking the form of a project for The Corviale Void, a one kilometre long strip of urban space, immured in the notorious Corviale housing development in the Southwestern sector of Rome. Corviale is a bizarre object, single-minded in its idea, the history of Corviale can be traced to debates in Italian architecture culture of the 1960's, including Aldo Rossi's objection to urbanisation, as articulated in his books and projects. On the one hand the project for the Corviale Void begins with one of the original theorists of modern urbanisation and architecture, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, looking into his fascination with the insides of walls. On the other hand the project begins with a new material form, The Air Grid. Like the forms appearing in Piranesi's etchings, Air Grid is made from a kind of hatching, but Air Grid is hatched out of colour vectors, literally drawn into the air. The human eye is easily mesmerised by Trade Review'A flight into the poetics of gossamer, the metaphysics of optics, and the most imaginative reaches of architectural thought, Victoria Watson's book is indeed a utopian adventure, leading the reader on an exhilarating excursion into a project of late-modern Italian urbanism, on the wings of robot beetles.' Joan Ockman, Columbia University, USA ’What to do with unloved public housing projects is a perennial source of controversy and debate. Those assertive, post-War concrete giants prompt apoplexy throughout much of middle England, with dynamite and wrecking balls often the preferred solution. In the final chapter of a new book, architect and historian Victoria Watson proposes an extraordinary use for the defining feature of a grim Italian estate - fill it with millions of robot beetles.’ The Telegraph 'Watson’s adventure links the thinking of a series of artists, architects and philosophers in a fascinating, mind-bending trip. Side-stepping the usual debates over utopian mid-century architecture [...] her text opens questions about the role of the aesthetic and the monumental in the city, challenging materialist and economically rationalist ideas of city making.' LSE Review of BooksTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; The origins of architecture; The origins of air grid; The origins of urban design; Architecture and non-sense; The Corviale void; Index.

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Book SynopsisPlanning Support Methods offers the only practical guide to the key methods of urban and regional planning. The authors apply and critically assess the most important methods for demographic and economic analysis and projection and land suitability analysis, providing an essential resource for practicing planners and planning students alike.Trade ReviewThis delightfully hands-on approach will be a breath of fresh air for students and practitioners alike. At long last we have a book that teaches urban planners to be intelligently analytical and ultrapractical. -- Ray Wyatt, University of MelbourneGood books on planning methods are rare. Klosterman and his colleagues have done us a great service by updating Klosterman’s previous book and extending its scope in population forecasting, spatial analysis, and GIS. A key text. -- Michael Batty, University College LondonI predict—and making accurate predictions is a big part of what this new volume covers—that Planning Support Methods will become an essential ‘go-to’ reference for both beginning students and experienced professionals. New chapters and sections on spatial analysis methods, land suitability analysis methods, and public participation methods help round out this extremely well-written, easy-to-use, and important new work. -- John D. Landis, University of PennsylvaniaKlosterman and his colleagues have done a masterful job of assembling and describing the core methods that planners use to understand the dynamics of urban growth and development. No other text combines demographic, economic and land suitability techniques in such an effective manner. This book provides a clear explanation of fundamental planning support methods. -- Stephen P. French, Georgia Institute of TechnologyTable of ContentsList of Figures, Maps, and Tables Preface 1 Foundations 2 Welcome to Decatur 3 Trend Projection Methods 4 Share Projection Methods 5 Cohort-Component Methods 6 Economic Analysis Methods 7 Spatial Analysis Methods 8 Land Suitability 9 Using Planning Support Methods Appendix A: US Census Geography Appendix B: American Community Survey Appendix C: US Data Sources Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisBrian Elliott persuasively argues that climate change is not a natural phenomenon but a political phenomenon:a symptom of neoliberal governance. This explains why environmental concern has increasingly been framed as a consumer responsibility issue rather than as a matter of structural social-political transformation.

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Book SynopsisSocieties with common-property systems maintaining strong equality and extensive freedom were initially nearly ubiquitous around the world, and that the private property rights system was established through a long series of violent state-sponsored aggressions.

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Book SynopsisTaking the growing South African mining town of Emalahleni as a case study, this book investigates whether a just transition from coal-generated energy is possible and what the local implications of this global restructuring of the energy sector will be.Trade Review"This volume was an eye opener. The authors in this work of genuinely thorough scholarship skillfully use their South African mining story to develop bigger arguments about the complexity of transitioning away from a dominant resource economy. While the dramatic history of South Africa and its outsized mining sector is unique, the set of questions which arise is not. The town they focus on is still booming, but other communities already experience post-mining life, and, as the editors say, 'nobody plans for decline'. Planning for decline is especially hard when coping with growth requires all attention of local government, when post-apartheid elites want to finally benefit, and business people do not see an end to the boom. Envisioning what a transition would look like, and preparing for this, is hard. Turning such vision into a strategy is even harder. If we want such a transition to be more than economic survival, and more than avoiding environmental catastrophe, i.e. if we strive for fairness in the process and prosperous communities as a result, then the dimensions of the challenge are hard to overestimate. As the authors note, the reverberations of unregulated and unanticipated closure after a boom can span generations. Neo-liberal ideologies and mining companies anxious to avoid responsibility for communities they used to control, as well as workers desperately in need of opportunities, do not prevent the search for a just transition, however. The analyses in this book reveal, beyond complexity and despair, many signs of hope and pathways to brighter post-mining futures." -Kristof Van Assche, University of Alberta

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Book SynopsisSomewhere, between character and caricature, there exists an authentic—a truly unique—urban place, that blends global and local, old and new. Yet, in a dramatically changing world dominated by crises of climate change, maintaining public health, and social justice, finding such places—and explaining their relevance—may be easier said than done. Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character accepts that challenge, and provides a comprehensive method for assessing how and why successful places come to be, with an explicit emphasis on context: Authenticity, culture, character, and uniqueness are words with meanings that depend on who is using them and in what contexts. Through text interwoven with 160 full-colour photographs by the author, and select illustrations by others, this book addresses how to enact blended and contextualised urban change, using the past and the status quo as catalysts rather than castaways. It provides resources and examples for the context-vetting process and for understanding how one era, object, or generation informs the next.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first in which current societal themes revolving around urbanism, architecture, and city planning are put forth solely through female perspectives. It reveals the importance of having female lenses on certain societal debates.Trade ReviewOne of the great things about the Athena Talks in Stockholm is that it is such an intensely organized event with an impressive diversity of ideas and an amazing efflorescence of urban approaches and perspectives. This lively assemblage of leading female urban scholars will have long-term consequences in regard to future debates on architecture and urban design, surely providing a vigorous discussion at the present. -- Michael Sorkin, distinguished professor of architecture of the City University of New York, architectural critic, writer, urbanist and president of TerreformTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroductionSECTION I – Politicised Spaces and Beyond Doreen Massey On SpaceDoreen Massey Cities of Capital – The Indifferent City: Learning from Doreen MasseyChristine Boyer Unequal Cities, Divided Spaces – The Search of EqualityFran Tonkiss Why Public Space MattersSetha Low Landscape Literacy and Design for Ecological Democracy: The Nature of Mill Creek Ann Whiston Spirn Planning, Design, and the Just CitySusan Fainstein Comparative Urbanism in Gentrification Studies: Ongoing DebateLoretta LeesSECTION II – Contemporary Urbanism Grounds The New Design With Nature Nan Ellin Retrofitting Suburbia for 21st Century Challenges Ellen Dunham Jones The Ecosystem of Local Shopping Streets and the Architecture of Difference Sharon Zukin The Meta-Principles of Good UrbanismEmily Talen Can Architecture Survive Our Global Housing Crisis?Dana CuffLeading with Landscape: Investing in Green Infrastructure for Resilience Nina-Marie Lister SECTION III – New Urban Social Geographies Feeling the Past: Heritage, Encounter and Engagement Emma Waterton Memorials as Spaces for Engagement: Design, Use and Meaning Karen Franck Health in the City Anne Vernez Moudon From Housing Projects to Healing Gardens: Reflections on a Career Considering the Psychology of Place Clare Cooper Marcus Enriching Places for Longevity: Does a Gender Perspective Make a Difference?Ann ForsythHow Does Body Conscious Design Contribute to Urbanism?Galen CranzSECTION IV – Collective City Futures – Dwellings and CulturesEveryday Urbanism: Public Spaces and BeyondMargaret CrawfordEdges and Eddies: Learning to be a High-Rise Society in Post-Independence Singapore, 1960-1995Jane M. Jacobs and Belinda YuenThe Right to Housing Adele Santos Story Telling with the Shapes of Time: Place, Poetry, and Local HistoryDolores Hayden The City as a Collective GoodSaskia SassenThe Empathy Gap: Digital Culture Needs What Talk Therapy OffersSherry TurkleList of ContributorsIndexAbout the Editor

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Book SynopsisCities are the world's future. Today, more than half of the global population, 3.7 billion people, are urban dwellers, and that number is expected to double by 2050. There is no question that cities are growing; the only debate is-over how they will grow. Will we invest in the physical and social infrastructure necessary for Iiveable, equitable, and-sustainable cities? In the latest edition of State of the World, the flagship publication of the Worldwatch Institute, experts from around the globe examine the core principles of sustainable urbanism and profile cities that are putting them into practice. State of the World first puts our current moment in context, tracing cities in the arc of human history. It also examines the basic structural elements of every city: materials and fuels; people and economics; and biodiversity. In part two, professionals working on some of the world's most inventive urban sustainability projects share their first-hand experience. Success stories come from places as diverse as Ahmedabad, India; Freiburg, Germany; and Shanghai, China. In many cases, local people are acting to improve their cities, even when national efforts are stalled. Parts three and four examine cross-cutting issues that affect the success of all cities. Topics range from the nitty-gritty of handling waste and developing public transportation to civic participation and navigating dysfunctional government. Throughout, readers discover the most pressing challenges facing communities and the most promising solutions currently being developed. The result is a snapshot of cities today and a vision for global urban sustainability tomorrow.

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Book SynopsisIn this volume the authors tell the real stories of the planners, politicians, and everyday people who shaped contemporary Chicago, starting in 1958, early in the Richard J. Daley era. Over the ensuing decades, planning did much to develop the Loop, protect Chicago’s famous lakefront, and encourage industrial growth and neighborhood development in the face of national trends that savaged other cities. But planning also failed some of Chicago’s communities and did too little for others. The Second City is no longer defined by its past and its myths but by the nature of its emerging postindustrial future. This volume looks beyond Burnham’s giant shadow to see the sprawl and scramble of a city always on the make. This isn’t the way other history books tell the story. But it’s the Chicago way.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Chicago’s Planning Context Part 1: Chicago’s Central Area 3. The Origins of Chicago’s Post-Industrial City: Planning Change In 1955-1958 4. The High-Water Mark of City-Led Planning: The 1966 Comprehensive Plan 5. Growth Coalition Takes the Lead for Planning 6. Chicago’s Equity Planning Moment 7. Planning in The Void: Redevelopment In The North Loop And Near South Part 2: Neighborhood Change And Planning Response 8. Chicago and Community Planning Innovation 9. Englewood 10. Uptown 11. Little Village 12. Remaking Public Housing: The Chicago Housing Authority’s Plan for Transformation Part 3: Industrial Policy in Chicago: City Planning for Industrial Retention and Growth 13. Defending The Industrial Base: Sector and District Strategies 14. Has It Worked? A Changing Employment Scene 15. The Calumet District: Planning for Brownfields 16. Planning for Global Freight in The Chicago Region Part 4: Chicago in Current Era 17. The Tourist City: Navy Pier, Mccormick Place, And Millennium Park 18. The Era of Big Plans Is Over 19. The Lost Decade 20. The Disconnect Between Financing and Planning 21. Examples of Positive Middle-Ground Planning 22. Conclusion: Restore Planning to Chicago

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Book SynopsisDevelopment projects are the building blocks of urban growth. Put enough of the right projects together in the right way, and you have sustainable cities. But getting the pieces to stack up takes a feat of coordination and cooperation. In our market economy, developers, designers, and planners tend to operate in silos, each focused on its own piece of the puzzle.Sustainable Development Projects shows how these three groups can work together to build stronger cities. It starts with a blueprint for a development triad that balances sound economics, quality design, and the public good. A step-by-step description of the development process explains how and when planners can most effectively regulate new projects, while a glossary of real estate terms gives all the project participants a common language. Detailed scenarios apply the book’s principles to a trio of projects: rental apartments, greenfield housing, and mixed use infill. Readers can follow the projects from inception to finished product and see how different choices would result in different outcomes. This nuts-and-bolts guide urges planners, developers, and designers to break out of their silos and join forces to build more sustainable communities. It’s essential reading for practicing planners, real estate and design professionals, planning and zoning commissioners, elected officials, planning students, and everyone who cares about the future of cities.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Challenges to Sustainable Urban Growth 2. Design, Development, and Regulation Silos 3. Linking Project Development, Design, and Regulation 4. Apartment Project Alternatives 5. Residential Subdivision Alternatives 6. Dynamic Financial Analysis 7. Infill Redevelopment Alternatives 8. Development Coordination Recommendations

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Book SynopsisUrban governance and sustainability are rapidly becoming key issues around the world. Currently three billion people - half the population of the planet - live in cities, and by 2050 a full two-thirds of the world's population will be housed in ever larger and increasingly densely populated urban areas. The economic, social and environmental challenges posed by urbanization on such a large scale and at such a rapid pace are staggering for local, regional and national governments working towards sustainability. Solutions to the myriad problems plaguing the quest for sustainability at the city-level are equally as diverse and complex, but are rooted in the assumptions of the 'sustainability agenda', developed at the Rio Earth Summit and embodied in Local Agenda/Action 21. These assumptions state that good governance is a necessary precondition for the achievement of sustainable development, particularly at the local level, and that the mobilization of local communities is an essential part of this process. Yet until now, these assumptions, which have guided the policies and programmes of over 6000 local authorities around the world, have never been seriously tested. Drawing on three years of field research in 40 European towns and cities, Governing for Sustainable Cities is the first book to examine empirically the processes of urban governance in sustainable development. Looking at a host of core issues including institutional and social capacity, institutional design, social equity, politics, partnerships and cooperation and creative policy-making, the authors draw compelling conclusions and offer strong guidance. This book is essential reading for policy-makers, politicians, activists and NGOs, planners, researchers and academics, whether in Europe, North America, Australasia or transitional and developing countries, concerned with advancing sustainability in our rapidly urbanizing world.Table of ContentsPreface * 'The Level of Government Closest to the People...' Government, Governance and Local Sustainability * Meeting the Sustainability Challenge * Institutional Capacity and Social Capacity * Local Government and Civil Society * Governing for Sustainability * An Agenda for Action * Appendix A: DISCUS Fieldwork Methodology * References * Index

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Book Synopsis�Think globally, act locally� emphasizes the importance of scale in dealing with environmental challenges, but not how to factor it in. This major new book focuses on the spatial dimensions of urban environmental burdens, showing how important it is to take these into account when pursuing environmental justice and good governance - whether in the context of the sanitary risks of slum living, the pollution of uncontrolled industrialization and motorization, or the enormous ecological footprints of affluent urban lifestyles. Written by leading experts in the fields of urban development and environmental planning, the book reviews the urban environmental shifts that have shaped today�s challenges, and examines conditions and problems in the urban centres of low-, middle- and high-income countries. Case studies address such economically diverse cities as Accra, New Delhi, Mexico City and Manchester, while thematic chapters explore issues including water, sanitation and transportation. The book concludes by exploring and analysing different scales of governance. The editors argue that we should not rely solely on local governance to address local burdens like poor sanitation, nor depend only on global governance for global challenges such as greenhouse gas emissions, but that scale is crucial in both understanding the problems and devising successful responses. Published with UNU-IAS and IIED.Trade Review'With chapters by some of the most thoughtful international urban environmental scholars ... [and] many concrete examples from around the world, this volume advances the science by addressing issues of scale in both its meanings; the geographical scale of environmental interactions as well as the difficulties involved in scaling (overcoming) the many challenges of designing and promoting sustainable human environments worldwide' Kirk R. Smith, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, USATable of ContentsScaling the Urban Environmental Challenge * Urban Transitions and the Spatial Displacement of Environmental Burdens * Variations of Urban Environmental Transitions: The Experiences of Rapidly Developing Asia-Pacific Cities * In Pursuit of a Healthy Urban Environment in Low- and Middle-income Nations * Improving Urban Water and Sanitation Services: Health, Access and Boundaries * Poverty and the Environmental Health Agenda in a Low-income City: The Case of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana * Dynamics of Growth and Process of Degenerated Peripheralization in Delhi: An Analysis of Socio-economic Segmentation and Differentiation in Micro-environments * Motorization in Rapidly Developing Cities * A Comparative Perspective on Urban Transport and Emerging Environmental Problems in Middle-income Cities * Fixing Environmental Agendas in Mexico * In Pursuit of the Sustainable City * The Metabolism of Urban Affluence: Notes from the Greater Manchester City-region * Locating the Local Agenda : Preserving Public Interest in the Evolving Urban World * Index

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Book SynopsisBack in 1997, New Labour came to power amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, British cities became the laboratories of the new enterprise economy: glowing monuments to finance, property speculation, and the service industry-until the crash.In A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the wreckage-the buildings that epitomized an age of greed and aspiration. From Greenwich to Glasgow, Milton Keynes to Manchester, Hatherley maps the derelict Britain of the 2010s: from riverside apartment complexes, art galleries and amorphous interactive "centers," to shopping malls, call centers and factories turned into expensive lofts. In doing so, he provides a mordant commentary on the urban environment in which we live, work and consume. Scathing, forensic, bleakly humorous, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain is a coruscating autopsy of a get-rich-quick, aspirational politics, a brilliant, architectural "state we're in."Trade ReviewAngry, fiercely funny ... . Essential reading for anyone who ever feels their blood start to boil when they hear the word 'regeneration.' -- Hari Kunzru, author of My RevolutionsAn exhilarating book. Owen Hatherley brings to bear a quizzing eye, venomous wit, supple prose, refusal to curry favor, rejection of received ideas, exhaustive knowledge and all-round bolshiness. He travels, self-consciously, in the famous footsteps of J. B. Priestley and Ian Nairn, and there can be no higher praise than to suggest that he proves himself their peer. This book is as much a marker for an era as English Journey and Outrage were. -- Jonathan Meades, author of Incest and Morris DancingHatherley's footloose narrative is driven by a heartfelt anger ... as well as a laudable desire to open people's eyes to the true value of their cities. -- PD Smith * Guardian *A book of finespun rage ... a book that had to be written. Wittily, bitterly, pithily, mostly accurately, Hatherley tells it how it is. -- Rowan Moore * Observer *This surgical evisceration of the cityscapes of Blairism is required reading. -- Hugh Pearman * RIBA Journal *Wonderfully provocative. -- Rupert Christiansen * Daily Telegraph *Hatherley is always entirely clear about his personal standpoint, so his criticisms never seem unjustified ... A rather bleak undercurrent is tempered by Hatherley's often witty observations and easy-going prose style. * PopMatters *This is a different kind of Heritage Britain, the kind that the tourists don't usually get to see ... this is also the real Britain, and Hatherley is the most informed, opinionated and acerbic guide you could wish for. -- Hugh Pearman * Sunday Times *Roomy and intellectually sophisticated.. It is bold and original, and it may change how you see British cities. -- Andy Beckett * Guardian *This is fear and loathing in Lost Albion riffed by a quainter version of Hunter S Thompson. -- Jay Merrick * Independent *Painted with a raging energy that is exhilarating ... [It's] political, sinister, sometimes funny. -- Gwyn Griffiths * Morning Star *A serious left-field attempt to provoke thought and argument ... This is an important book that is entirely worthy of the arguments it sets out to provoke. -- Patrick Wright * Architecture Today *Hatherley deserves to be widely read ... he has brought a welcome freshness and honesty to architectural criticsm. -- Chris Hall * Icon *The latest heir to Ruskin ... Hatherley blasts the architectural style of New Labour Britain. Whatever your pet-hate, Hatherley will probably have some enjoyably cruel words for it. -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *

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Book SynopsisThis practical guide, written by a practitioner for practitioners, presents a coherent and straightforward 'how-to-do-it' approach to the strategic environmental assessment (SEA) process. Part one provides an overview of the aims, principles, advantages and problems of SEA as well as looking at key SEA regulations and their requirements. Part two examines the SEA process in considerable detail including setting the policy context, describing the baseline, identifying alternatives, predicting and evaluating impacts and using the SEA information in decision-making. Part three is devoted to assuring SEA quality with a discussion of resources and capacity building. This new edition incorporates five years' worth of practical application of the SEA Directive and SEA practice more broadly. Additions and updates include: the findings of various reviews into SEA effectiveness and efficiency emerging approaches to identifying and comparing alternatives, cumulative impacts, the likely future baseline without the plan, documenting changes made to the plan in response to the SEA process, and environmental limits consideration of both the 'baseline-led' and the 'objectives-led' approach to SEA, and the two approaches' advantages and disadvantages SEA's links to 'appropriate assessment' of plans under the European Habitats Directive. Employing a host of real-life case studies and examples, each chapter presents a range of techniques and discusses what the final product should look like. Appendices provide a wealth of additional information including text of the SEA Directive and the UNECE Protocol on SEA, and a 'toolkit' of SEA techniques. The approach and techniques in Strategic Environmental Assessment in Action are useful for anyone carrying out or studying SEA at any level, from policy to programme, international to local, but particularly for practitioners responsible for implementing the SEA Directive. Table of ContentsPart 1: Introducing Strategic Environmental Assessment Introduction. Strategic Environmental Assessment: An Overview SEA in Plan-Making. Three SEA Systems: United States, Europe, China Part 2: The SEA Process Setting the Context for SEA Describing the Environmental Baseline. Identifying Problems. Links to Other Strategic Actions. Identifying Alternatives. Predicting Impacts. Evaluating and Mitigating Impacts. Documentation, Implementation and Monitoring Part 3: Assuring SEA Effectiveness Ensuring that the SEA is Effective and Resourcing It. Appendices. Index

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