Urban category: 4425 books
Encountering Urban Places
Visual and Material Performances in the City
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The aesthetics of urban life offer a curious quality, one that is both highly visible and hidden, both openly influencing and subtly imprinting. These aesthetics participate in the production of places; to the way they are built, to their resisting materiality, to their image in people's minds, to...
Rethinking Urban Parks
Public Space and Cultural Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Urban parks such as New York City's Central Park provide vital public spaces where city dwellers of all races and classes can mingle safely while enjoying a variety of recreations. By coming together in these relaxed settings, different groups become comfortable with each other, thereby strengthening...
Manhattan Projects
The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in the decades after World War II. Focusing on four iconic "Manhattan projects"--the...
Schools as Radical Sanctuaries
Decolonizing Urban Education through the Eyes of Youth of Color
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Large, comprehensive urban high schools were designed and constructed with the belief that they could meet the needs of all its students, academic and otherwise. By and large, however, these schools have only done a good job of sorting students for specific jobs in a society based on capitalism and White...
For a Proper Home
Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile, 1960-2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
From 1967 to 1973, a period that culminated in the socialist project of Salvador Allende, nearly 400,000 low-income Chileans illegally seized parcels of land on the outskirts of Santiago. Remarkably, today almost all of these individuals live in homes with property titles. As Edward Murphy shows,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
There is a long history of governments, businesses, science and citizens producing and utilizing data in order to monitor, regulate, profit from and make sense of the urban world. Recently, we have entered the age of big data, and now many aspects of everyday urban life are being captured as data...
Analyzing Urban Poverty
GIS for the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In developing countries, squatter developments that house more than one-third of the urban population are without infrastructure and built from materials at hand. Analyzing Urban Poverty: GIS in the Developing World demonstrates how geographic information systems (GIS) can be used to improve quality...
For the City Yet to Come
Changing African Life in Four Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
Among government officials, urban planners, and development workers, Africa’s burgeoning metropolises are frequently understood as failed cities, unable to provide even basic services. Whatever resourcefulness does exist is regarded as only temporary compensation for fundamental failure. In For...
The New Arab Urban
Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Cities of the Arabian Peninsula reveal contradictions of contemporary urbanization
The fast-growing cities of the Persian Gulf are, whatever else they may be, indisputably sensational. The world’s tallest building is in Dubai; the 2022 World Cup in soccer will be played in fantastic Qatar...
Urbanization and Urban Governance in China
Issues, Challenges, and Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This book explores the process of urbanization and the profound challenges to China’s urban governance. Economic productivity continues to rise, with increasingly uneven distribution of prosperity and accumulation of wealth. The emergence of individual autonomy including demands for more freedom...
by William SW Lim
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Over the past few decades, rapid urbanisation has threatened to erode public space, especially in emerging economies. Market forces that prioritise profit generation are allowed to construct venues of consumption in its place. Though their physical appearance may resemble traditional public space,...
Assorted City
Equity, Justice, and Politics in Urban Services Delivery
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
A rare piece of research on the game of urban services delivery in an Indian metropolis.
Assorted City makes an important contribution to urban planning discourses in India by offering an in-depth conceptual and theoretical insight to address theory–practice dichotomy. A unique...
Sites Unseen
Uncovering Hidden Hazards in American Cities
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
From a dive bar in New Orleans to a leafy residential street in Minneapolis, many establishments and homes in cities across the nation share a troubling and largely invisible past: they were once sites of industrial manufacturers, such as plastics factories or machine shops, that likely left behind...
by Miriam Paeslack
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Buffalo, in New York state, is 'ineffable': a typical city in transition between its past and future. It is a classic example of one of many 'shrinking cities' in North America and elsewhere which once prospered because of heavy industrialization, but which now have to deal with various degrees of...