Urban and municipal planning and policy Books
Transcript Verlag The Game of Urban Regeneration – Culture &
Book SynopsisWho wins and who loses in urban regeneration? What are the mechanisms at play?Francesca Weber-Newth looks at two neighbourhoods that are adjacent to large-scale regeneration schemes: the 2012 Olympic park in London and the Mediaspree waterside development in Berlin. By analysing how urban regeneration is experienced on the ground, her study counters the notion that Olympic-led regeneration is any different from other forms of neoliberal urban development. Adopting Pierre Bourdieu's view of the social world as made up of competitive "games", an analysis of the two neighbourhoods reveals how the concepts of "culture" and "community" are strategically employed in the "game" of urban regeneration - to the benefit of some and the detriment of others.Trade Review"A book worth reading, which shows the changes in regeneration practices over the last three decades in an exemplary manner and makes it clear that what is considered attractive in the city today has a long history." Felicitas Hillmann, Soziopolis, 23.09.2020, translated from German
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Transcript Verlag Housing and Human Settlements in a World of
Book SynopsisThe challenge of housing is increasingly recognised in international policy discussions in connection to the processes of migration, climate change, and economic globalisation. This book addresses the challenges of housing and emerging solutions along the lines of three major dynamics: migration, climate change, and neo-liberalism. It explores the outcomes of neo-liberal "enabling" ideas, responses to extreme climate events with different housing approaches, and how the dynamics of migration reshape the urban housing provision in a changing world. The aim is to contextualise the theoretical discourses by reflecting on the case study context of the eleven papers published in this book. With forewords by Raquel Rolnik (University Sao Paulo) and Mohammed El Sioufi (UN-Habitat).
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Transcript Verlag Zones of Tradition–Places of Identity – Cities
Book SynopsisWhat is the heritage of our cities? Which are the monuments, places, and spaces in which it accumulates, and by which practices is it formed, handed down, appropriated? Gerhard Vinken takes the readers to twelve cities on three continents and analyses the diverse and contradictory heritage formations that have had a lasting impact on urban life. The vitality of urban heritage, as these vivid and in-depth case studies show, lies in the dynamic and often conflictual processes of social appropriation and interpretation. Covering a diverse range of themes, the book familiarizes the reader with important questions and theories in urban research and heritage studies.Trade Review"Sophisticated and stimulating book." (translated from German) Klaus R. Kunzmann, Kulturpolitische Mitteilungen, 177/2 (2022)
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Transcript Verlag Platformization of Urban Life: Towards a
Book SynopsisThe increasing platformisation of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and activists from various fields related to critical urban studies and labour activism into dialogue. The contributors engage with the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid techno-dystopian stance in order to include an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange.
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Transcript Verlag Public Space in Transition: Co-production and
Book SynopsisTeheran-ro in Seoul and Mediaspree area in Berlin are pristine examples for public spaces with a history of rapid change in the context of broader political and economic transitions. Dahae Lee shows that in such a transitional context, the public sector alone is incapable to provide and manage public space. Hence, it engages private sector entities in the form of privately owned public space/s (POPS). By analysing the planning instruments used for POPS in both cases, their uniqueness as well as strengths and weaknesses are revealed. Based on the results this study offers a number of policy recommendations for cities that encounter similar problems.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Abstract; List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Public space in transition; Research design and methodology; Challenges of providing and managing public space in a transitional context; Planning instruments for POPS in Teheran-ro, Seoul; Planning instruments for POPS in Mediaspree area, Berlin; Outcomes of planning instruments for POPS; Conclusion; Glossary; Appendix; Bibliography.
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Transcript Verlag Informal Transactions of Low Income Houses in
Book SynopsisThrough a series of intricate informal processes and human-centric institutional arrangements, beneficiaries of South African government-subsidized housing force formally registered properties into informality. Sandile Mbatha explores the concept of informality in relation to how such beneficiaries challenge predominant understandings of property relations. These practices are embedded in complex urban tenure dynamics that prevail in post-colonial societies; societies, in which the state's imposition of predominantly western forms of tenure and property rights ignore the anthropological nature of housing.
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Transcript Verlag Territorial Stigmatization: Urban Renewal and
Book SynopsisIn Tarlabasi, an Istanbul neighbourhood facing massive redevelopment and displacement, marginalized residents speak about belonging, stigma, and what their community means to them. Based on a long-term ethnographic study that includes interviews, photographs, and archival research, Constanze Letsch examines how territorial stigmatization is weaponized by the state and how differently stigmatized groups try to fight against the vilification of their mahalle. The contested plans of urban renewal threaten not only their homes and workplaces but a rapidly vanishing Istanbul: socio-demographic interdependencies and networks that have developed over decades.
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DOM Publishers Berlin Urban Strategy: The Genius of
Book SynopsisThis book aims to explore Berlin's ability not to trivialise new ideas and thus remain a leader in innovation. Berlin is a city that continues to fascinate. It has a tormented history, is the capital of two reconciled Germanies, is an increasingly popular tourist destination, and has affordable living and workspaces for young people, artists, and other creative minds. The 3.7-million metropolis is also the scene for large-scale urban and architectural projects, bottom-up projects, and citizens' initiatives such as communal gardening, cooperative living and other urban innovations. Is the miracle of Berlin's success due to its genius of improvisation, that is to say its ability to adapt to a complex history, to invent specific courses of action, to negotiate? Since 2016, Berlin policy makers have developed an urban strategy to combat real estate price increases and gentrification. Another challenge for Berlin is to adapt to demographic change and the growing number of tourists. More participative, more equitable, and less favourable to automobiles, this city is looking to incorporate diverse methods: public/private partnership, citizen awareness initiatives, social and economic
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DOM Publishers China: Architectural Guide
Book SynopsisIn an era of accelerating population growth, mass urbanization, and increasing pressure on the natural environment, the megacities of China's eastern seaboard have become a focal point of architectural and urban-design attention. The "reform and opening-up era" has touched China's major cities in different ways, affecting the existing fabric of dynastic capitals, trade hubs, and former European colonies and concessions; this in turn has provided the setting for a range of complex reactions by contemporary architects. The Architectural Guide China provides an invaluable window into this work, with city-by-city coverage including historic maps and background information on urban form. Building on the authors' years of experience leading architectural study tours, this book is the first comprehensive English-language survey of recent Chinese architecture to be organized as a travel guide.
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DOM Publishers A Vision for Mariupol: The Easternmost Gateway of
Book SynopsisThe City of Mariupol’s heroic defence and systematic destruction at the beginning of the Russian invasion have made it an international symbol of senseless brutality and Ukrainian defiance. The ruined city today still harbours the embers of that resistance. Join a multidisciplinary team of architects, planners, Mariupol residents, and outside experts as they envision the rebirth of their beloved city following its liberation. Inspired by the Ukrainian people’s faith and determination to rebuild, the authors join forces with displaced Mariupol residents to imagine a dynamic future for Mariupol that will begin the day the Ukrainian flag rises. Despite the unavailability of reliable information and the difficulty of communicating with the scattered population, the team illustrates the case for planning rebuilding while the city is still under occupation, both so as to exorcise the scars of war and colonialism and to establish a viable economy and human-centred city that draws strength from its tragic past. This title is part of the Histories of Ukrainian Architecture programme initiated by DOM publishers in response to Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty on 24 February 2022.
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DOM Publishers Constructing the Socialist Way of Life: North
Book SynopsisMass housing and urban planning constitute a key element of the material foundation of North Korea. In the post-war era, the country attempted to socialise all types of living spaces based on political ideology, from small apartment rooms to urban settings. The idea that North Korea’s political forces are brainwashing their people is superficial – as the testimonies of many defectors reveal. By exploring home culture and daily life, this book aims to capture the actual life of North Koreans who have largely supported the country’s unique but dictatorial political system. To this end, it uses drawings, maps, and diagrams obtained from various archives. While these are neutral forms of communication, they also convey the actual intentions of North Korean architects and planners hidden behind the deceitful claims of political leaders.
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Deep & Deep Publications Slum Improvement Through Participatory Urban
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The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI Sustainable Urban Planning
Book SynopsisDevelopment of an approach for sustainable framework in the Indian context is very complex due to the diversity in the urban and metropolitan regions of the country.
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The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI Green Homes and Workplaces
Book SynopsisIf it's too hot, you switch on a fan. If it's cold, you turn on a room heater. We do this unthinkingly, and it never occurs to us that had the building itself been designed differently, neither may have been necessary. Amory Lovins's home high up in the mountains in Colorado uses no grid-supplied electricity and yet is warm enough to grow bananas and comfortable 24/7 all the year round. It all comes to wise building design. Living in a hot and dry climate? You need thick walls and shaded windows. Living along a coast? The warm and moist climate means you need ample ventilation and thin walls. These are obvious solutions but architects have more tricks up their sleeves. After having helped many buildings to being certifiably green', the authors of this book explain what sustainable buildings are and how to ensure that our homes and workplaces are not only thermally comfortable' but well-lit and well-ventilated as well. But I have no plans to build a new home or I live in a rented flat, you may say. Never mind; the book offers some useful info to you as well. For example, do not set your AC too low: approximately 27 C is good enough, and you will save much more. What sets Green Homes and Workplaces apart from other books is the simple and clear explanations of fundamentals and liberal use of illustrations.
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ListLab PROTECTED AREAS AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES: A
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ListLab The City at the End of the Underground
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ListLab Land Stocks: New Operations Landscapes of City
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ListLab Re-Cyclical Urbanism
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SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd Global Cities: Past, Present and Future
Book SynopsisThe pivotal nodes in the world city network are global cities---cities of supreme strategic value in global economy and politics, science and technology, culture, and society. Global Cities: Past, Present and Future explores the evolution of global cities---their formation, rise, development and tendencies. This book summarizes and interprets global tendencies and also puts forward a theoretical framework that will help researchers understand these cities better. It also makes a compelling case for understanding every city in terms of evolutionary dynamics. The first eight chapters of the book discuss the ontology of global city evolution and patterns, forms and trends of development. The last two chapters study the case of Shanghai, which aims to build itself into an important global city by 2050. This case study illustrates the shaping of a new type of global city that demonstrates new characteristics of the globalized space.Table of ContentsIntroduction Literature Review Global Cities Research The Studies of Global Space Studies on the World City Network Dynamic Evolution Research Definition of Global Cities Methodology of Conceptualization Global City Paradigm Clarification of Some Confusing Concepts Evolutionary Ontology and Its Core Category Ontology of Global Cities The Core Category Connected Spaces Evolution Framework: World City Network Complex Interlocking Network Model Network Structure Evolutionary Dynamics Framework of Dynamics Influencing Factors Evolutionary Process Evolutionary Model Dominant Model of Evolution Diversity in Evolution (Types) Evolutionary Tendencies of Global Cities Evolutionary Tendencies Based on Network Intensification Evolution Trend Based on the Isotropic World City Network The Evolution of Space Space Expansion Evolutionary Trend of Spatial Expansion Processes A Case Study of ‘Shanghai 2050’ Global City Vision (Part I) Strategic Drive: Prospects of Globalization Strategic Opportunities: Reshaping of World Pattern The Rise of China as Strategic Support Shanghai’s Endogenous Foundation for Global Cities Evolution A Case Study of ‘Shanghai 2050’ Global City Vision (Part II) Prospects of Shanghai’s Evolution to a Global City Shanghai’s Vision of Becoming a Global City Core Functions of Shanghai as a Global City Bibliography
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd India's Greenfield Urban Future: the Politics of
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HarperCollins India India's Blind Spot: Understanding and Managing Our Cities
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Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd Urban Growth Strategies: Mumbai Lessons - City
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Oxford University Press Urban Public Health
Book SynopsisToday, we know cities as shared spaces with the potential to both threaten and promote human health: while urban areas are known to amplify the transmission of epidemics like Ebola, urban residency is also associated with longer, healthier lives. Modern cities encompass a wide ecology of infrastructures, institutions and services that impact health, from access to improved sanitation and early childhood education to the design of buildings and transportation systems. So how has this centuries-long transformation in human settlement affected the mindset surrounding public health research and practice? Urban Public Health is an interdisciplinary collaboration from experts across the globe that approaches the issue of urban health research from a uniquely public health orientation. The carefully crafted and thoughtful chapters in this volume grapple with the complexity of the urban setting as a physical and social space while also providing an abundance of global and local examples of curTrade ReviewA treasure-trove of lessons in urban public health research from the most urbanized regions of the world, Urban Public Health offers a comprehensive guide to urban health research from theoretical frameworks to practical considerations. By adopting a population health approach, the authors foreground the diverse systems for health that can support or undermine health in cities. The detailed exposÃé of updates to research methods for urban health are overdue additions to the scientific landscape, and a must for the conduct of policy-informed and contextually relevant research for healthy sustainable cities globally." * Tolullah Oni, Public Health Physician and Urban Epidemiologist, Research Initiative for Cities Health and Equity (RICHE Africa), University of Cambridge, and University of Cape Town *This book is an important contribution to the study of urban health. By its careful exposition of the tools of science, including definitions and methods, it establishes a coherent base to guide future exploration. Urban Public Health will serve scholars and students alike and should be required reading in all urban health courses." * Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Professor of Urban Policy and Health, The New School *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Contributing Authors Foreword Preface Part I - Introduction to Urban Health Chapter 1. What is Urban Health? Defining the Geographic and Substantive Scope Chapter 2. Global Urbanization and Health Trends Chapter 3. Conceptual Models and Frameworks for Understanding the Links Between Urban Environments and Health Chapter 4. Urban Health Inequities Part II - Identifying and Collecting Data for Urban Health Research Chapter 5. Assessment of the Urban Environment: Measurement Scales, Modes, and Metrics Chapter 6. Human Perceptions and Reflections on the Urban Context Chapter 7. Characterizing and Mapping Health in Urban Areas Part III - Tools for working with urban health data Chapter 8. Managing and Integrating Diverse Sources of Urban Data Chapter 9. Analysis Strategies for Relating the Urban Environment to Health Chapter 10. What Do We Know About What Works? Synthesizing the Evidence Chapter 11: Systems approaches to urban health Part IV: From Evidence into Action Chapter 12. Partnerships and Collaboration: An Urban Focus Chapter 13. Community Engagement and Participatory Approaches for Urban Health Chapter 14: Policy in Urban Health: The Power of Cities to Translate Science into Action Chapter 15: Dissemination of Urban Health Research to Maximize Impact Concluding Remarks Acknowledgements About the Authors
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Oxford University Press Imagining New York City
Book SynopsisUsing examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, this wide-ranging book examines the place and significance of New York City in the urban imaginary between 1890 and 1940. In particular, Imagining New York City considers how and why certain city spaces - such as the skyline, the sidewalk, the slum, and the subway - have come to emblematize key aspects of the modern urban condition. In so doing, the book also considers the ways in which cultural developments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries set the stage for more recent responses to a variety of urban challenges facing the city, such as post-disaster recovery, the renewal of urban infrastructure, and the remaking of public space.Trade ReviewAn evocative and insightful reading of "this endlessly mutable city". * PD Smith, The Guardian *New York City is the most overly analyzed, overly discussed city on the globe. Yet Lindner has something fresh and significant to say ... This intellectually challenging book is also extremely readable, an outcome rare in academic writing. Highly recommended. * G. R. Butters Jr., CHOICE *This wonderfully rich and engaging book focuses on a transformative period in New York City's history to explore how and why it has so thoroughly captured modern urban imaginations. * David Pinder, author of Visions of the City: Utopianism, Power and Politics in Twentieth-Century Urbanism *An exciting and compelling book, Imagining New York City provides a major contribution to the study of cultural Modernism and urban visual culture. With a richly drawn narrative and a deft interweaving of texts and images, this is clearly a first class writer at work. * Joseph Heathcott, Associate Professor of Urban Studies at The New School and President of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History *Drawing on a rich array of literary, visual, and urbanistic materials, Christoph Lindner offers an intellectually playful, theoretically incisive guide to the cultural history of modern New York. Taking us up skylines and down sidewalks, Lindner makes it clear that imagining New York has been a crucial way of understanding urban modernity. * David Scobey, author of Empire City: The Making and Meaning of the New York City Landscape *worthwhile and insightful reading for anyone interested in New York City or cultural representations of urban spaces, in general. * Nico Völker, Kult_online *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction ; Archive City ; Changing New York ; Modern City, Urban Imaginary ; Skylines and Sidewalks ; After City ; Part 1 - Skylines ; New York Vertical ; The City from Above ; Requiem for the Twin Towers ; Building the Skyline: A Brief Architectural History ; Text and the City ; New York Dreamscapes ; Fantasy Island ; After-Images of New York ; Revisioning the Skyscraper ; Cinema and the Vertical City ; The City from Greenwich Village ; Metrotopia ; The Empty City ; New York Undead ; Part 2 - Sidewalks ; New York Horizontal ; Sidewalks and Public Space ; A Short History of the Grid ; Street-Walking ; Broadway Promenade ; Manhattan Flaneuse ; Blase Metropolitan Attitude ; City of Slums ; Sidewalks and Fear ; Tales of the Tenement ; New York Underground ; Elevated City ; High Line, Lowline ; Subway City ; Underground Fantasies ; Slow Street ; Afterword ; Bibliography
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Memory Culture and the Contemporary City Building Sites
Book SynopsisThese essays by leading figures from academia, architecture and the arts consider how cultures of memory are constructed for and in contemporary cities. They take Berlin as a key case of a historically burdened metropolis, but also extend to other global cities: Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Cape Town and New York.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction PART I Monument and Melancholia; V.Burgin Sonnen-Insulaner : On a Berlin Island of Memory; T.Elsaesser Arrivals and Departures: Travelling to the Airports of Berlin; H.Reeh Global Building Sites – Between Past and Future; D.Libeskind PART II Spectral Ground in New Cities: Memorial Cartographies in Cape Town and Berlin; K.E.Till & J.Jonker Designing the Biblical Present in Jerusalem's 'City of David'; W.Pullan& M.Gwiazda Historical Tourism: Reading Berlin's Doubly Dictatorial Past; M.Fulbrook Sacralized Spaces and the Urban Remembrance of War; J.Ward Paradise for Provocation: Plotting Berlin's Political Underground; C.Scribner PART III Architecture as Scenography, the Building Site as Stage; S.Bürkle Buenos Aires 2010: Memory Machines and Cybercities in Two Argentine Science Fiction Films; G.Kantaris Perpetuated Transitions: Forms of Nightlife and the Buildings of Berlin in the Work of Isa Genzken and Wolfgang Tilmans; P.Ekardt On the Road with mnemonic nonstop ; L.Ruprecht with M.Nachbar& J.Roller Notes Index
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Penguin Random House LLC The Code of the City
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Penguin Random House LLC Cities and Complexity Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata AgentBased Models and Fractals
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Penguin Random House LLC Faster Smarter Greener The Future of the Car and Urban Mobility The MIT Press
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MIT Press Installing Automobility Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities Urban and Industrial Environments
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MIT Press Ornaments of the Metropolis Siegfried Kracauer and Modern Urban Culture The MIT Press
Book SynopsisVariations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's urban writings, suggesting ways in which the subjective can reappropraite urban life.For Siegfried Kracauer, the urban ornament was not just an aspect of design; it was the medium through which city dwellers interpreted the metropolis itself. In Ornaments of the Metropolis, Henrik Reeh traces variations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's writings on urbanism, from his early journalism in Germany between the wars to his sociobiography of Jacques Offenbach in Paris. Kracauer (1889-1966), often associated with the Frankfurt School and the intellectual milieu of Walter Benjamin, is best known for his writings on cinema and the philosophy of history. Reeh examines Kracauer's lesser-known early work, much of it written for the trendsetting newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung in the 1920s and early 1930s, and analyzes Kracauer's continuing reflections on modern urban life, through the pivotal idea of ornament. Kracauer d
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Springer Plants and Habitats of European Cities
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Springer Advances in Urban Ecology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Planning for a Sustainable Future
Book SynopsisSustainable Development is now firmly on the planning agenda and is an issue neither practitioner nor academic can afford to ignore. Planning for a Sustainable Future provides a multi-disciplinary overview of sustainability issues in the land use context, focusing on principles and their application, the legal, political and policy context and the implication of sustainable development thinking for housing, urban design and property development as well as waste and transport. The book concludes by considering how sustainable and unsustainable impacts alike can be measured and modelled, providing real tools to move beyond rhetoric into practice.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements. Part I: The Principles and Context of Sustainable Development. Part II: Contemporary Debates. Part III: Sustainability in Practice. Concluding Remarks.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Australian Metropolis
Book SynopsisThe Australian Metropolis splendidly fills a huge gap in the literature on Australian cities. It is the definitive account of the history of Australian cities and the crucial role which planning has played in their genesis and growth. Spanning two centuries from the very beginning until the present day, it will instantly become a standard work ' Professor Sir Peter Hall, author of Cities in Civilisation..The Australian Metropolis provides a single-volume introduction to the development of urban planning. It fills the need for a convenient, initial resource for anyone interested in the broad evolutionary sweep of modern planning. By setting the evolution of Australian planning within its broader societal context, The Australian Metropolis presents a balanced appraisal of the positive, negative and ambivalent legacies resulting from attempts to plan Australia's major cities. This book is the winner of two Royal Australian Planning Institute Awards for PlTrade Review'This book fills a glaring gap in the literature of planning history...a set of outstanding essays from experts in their fields, which cover the entire gamut of Australian planning from Botany Bay to the millennium. This admirable book is an unvarnished and dispassionate record of a very special and important planning tradition.' - Sir Peter Hall, Built Environment'The collection of essays effectively combines both planning theory and practice ... The range of academic disciplines from which the contributors come from adds an extra freshness to the work, and makes it relevant to contemporary urban planners and sociologists, as well as urban historians.' - Urban History'Deserves to be read by a wide audience of students, town planners and public policy practitioners ... The book is highly readable and so should find a wide non-specialist audience with an interest in the history of Australian cities and towns.' - Urban Studies'This is a wonderful addition to the history of urban planning in Australia. A very readable text and one I would not hesitate to recommend to any undergraduate student wanting to get an understanding of the development of the Australian Metropolis.' - Ed Wensing, Australian Journal of Environmental Management'The Australian Metropolis has much to commend it, both as a text book and as a general reference. It is well written and edited, the authors make good and appropriate use of figures, and the material and arguments are presented in a accessible fashion.' - Urban Policy and RearchThere is probably no better book to give a succint and clear background to the forces that have shaped Australia's major cities over the past 200 years. - APA Journal, Summer 2002Table of ContentsFigures. Tables. Contributors. Introduction. 1: Founding Cities in Nineteenth-Century Australia. 2: From City Improvement to the City Beautiful. 3: Towards Metropolitan Organisation: Town Planning and Garden City Idea. 4: From Theory to Practice: The Inter-War Years. 5: A New Paradigm: Planning and Reconstruction in the 1940s. 6: The Post-War City. 7: The Corridor City: Planning for Growth in the 1960s 8: Administrative Coordination, Urban Management and Strategic Planning in the 1970s. 9: The Revival of Metropolitan Planning. 10: The Late 1990s: Competitive Versus Sustainable Cities. Notes. Index.
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Random House USA Inc Metropolis
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iUniverse Not Well Advised The City as Clientan Illuminating Analysis of Urban Governments and Their Consultants
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iUniverse American Communities The Next Human Advance A New Class of Freedom
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iUniverse At Home in the Park Loving a Neighborhood Back to Life
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iUniverse War on the Dream How AntiSprawl Policy Threatens the Quality of Life
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iUniverse At Home in the Park Loving a Neighborhood Back to Life
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Springer Avian Ecology and Conservation in an Urbanizing World
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Ohio State University Press City Scripts
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Taylor & Francis Inc The Art of Revitalization Improving Conditions in Distressed InnerCity Neighborhoods 12 Contemporary Urban Affairs
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Company Towns in the Americas Landscape Power and WorkingClass Communities
Book SynopsisCompany towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding ideologies by examining the histories of company towns in six countries: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico, and the US.
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Vanderbilt University Press Sowing Change
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Vanderbilt University Press Sowing Change
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Food and Urbanism The Convivial City and a Sustainable Future
Book SynopsisSusan Parham is Head of Urbanism at the Centre for Sustainable Communities, University of Hertfordshire, UK.Trade Review[Food and Urbanism] is a book that will find a role as an essential reference for anyone with any interest in food and a positive gold mine for any postgraduate student starting on their research into any aspects of food or urban-food relationships. * H-Net *The book follows a logical progression from table and garden to the city edges and the larger region, each chapter providing a comprehensive review of the relevant literature from a diversity of disciplines. -- Barbara Santich, University of Adelaide * Petits Propos Culinaires *With vivid examples and sparkling clarity, Parham illustrates how food has served as the bridge between private homes and public markets, neighborhoods and regions, and physical spaces and culturally distinct places. A timely and important contribution for anyone interested in how these linkages offer clues for building a more sustainable future. -- Andrew Deener, University of Connecticut, USAParham‘s Food and Urbanism is a thrilling read from start to finish, providing a fascinating insight into the complex relationship between food and the city: from urban agriculture to food branding and beyond. The impressive array of topics covered, combined with the interdisciplinary nature of the text, results in a piece which will be of interest to sociologists, geographers, planners, urban designers and other actors interested in this area of research. -- Michael Hardman, University of Salford, UKThrough Parham’s powerful prose, gastronomy is revealed as a key ingredient of social justice, cultural understanding and genuinely sustainable forms of urban existence. Crucial reading for anyone studying, critiquing, designing and planning cities, this book brings critical food studies into a direct conversation with 21st-century urbanism. -- Alex Rhys-Taylor, Goldsmiths, University of London, UKTable of ContentsDedication Preface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: Food and Urbanism: the Convivial City and Sustainable Future Part One: Food, Domesticity and Design The Paradoxical Kitchen and the Death of Dining The Garden and Gastronomy Part Two: Gastronomy and Public Space Food’s Outdoor Room The Gastronomic Townscape Ambivalent Suburbia Convivial Green Space Part Three: Food Space on the Edge The Productive Periphery The Megalopolitan Food Realm Designing the Critical Food Region Food and Urbanism in a Global Context Conclusion: Food and Urbanism – Making a Resilient City Bibliography Index
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Policy and Evidence in a Partisan Age The Great
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