Urban category: 4425 books
Building and Dwelling
Ethics for the City
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A preeminent thinker redefines the meaning of city life and charts a way forward
Building and Dwelling is the definitive statement on cities by the renowned public intellectual Richard Sennett. In this sweeping work, he traces the anguished relation between how cities are built and how people...
African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, D.C.
Race, Class and Social Justice in the Nation’s Capital
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This book uses qualitative data to explore the experiences and ideas of African Americans confronting and constructing gentrification in Washington, D.C. It contextualizes Black Washingtonians’ perspectives on belonging and attachment during a marked period of urban restructuring and demographic...
by AbdouMaliq Simone
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Jakarta, a city rife with disparities like many cities in the Global South, is undergoing rapid change. Alongside its megastructures, high-rise residential buildings, and franchised convenience stores, Jakarta’s massive slums and off-hour street markets foster an unsettled urban population surviving...
Sharing Cities
A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
How cities can build on the “sharing economy” and smart technology to deliver a “sharing paradigm” that supports justice, solidarity, and sustainability.
The future of humanity is urban, and the nature of urban space enables, and necessitates, sharing—of resources, goods and services,...
The British New Towns
A Programme without a Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
First published in 1979. Concern about the processes at work in Britain’s urban areas, coupled with steep declines in the population projections, led to a review of urban and regional policies in the mid-1970s, with major implications for the new towns as an element of national policy. The various...
Dispatches Against Displacement
Field Notes from San Franciscos Housing Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
San Francisco is being eroded by waves of cash flowing north from Silicon Valley. Recent evictions of long-time San Francisco residents, outrageous rents and home prices, and blockaded "Google buses" are only the tip of the iceberg. James Tracy's book focuses on the long arc of displacement...
The Public Wealth of Cities
How to Unlock Hidden Assets to Boost Growth and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
How to leverage existing resources to meet the current and future needs of cities
Crumbling streets and bridges. Poorly performing schools and inadequate social services. These are common complaints in cities, which too often struggle just to keep the lights on, much less make the long-term...
Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century
Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban reality, and the consequences for both Latin America and the rest of the developing world.
The Evolution of Great World Cities
Urban Wealth and Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Some cities seem destined to become major financial capitals, yet never do—Seville, for instance, was the centre of Spain's opulent New World Empire, but failed to become a financial metropolis. Others, like former colonial backwater Hong Kong, defy the odds by growing into major trading centres....
Sustainable Food Systems
The Role of the City
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Faced with a global threat to food security, it is perfectly possible that society will respond, not by a dystopian disintegration, but rather by reasserting co-operative traditions. This book, by a leading expert in urban agriculture, offers a genuine solution to today’s global food crisis. By...
Divided Cities
Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
In Jerusalem, Israeli and Jordanian militias patrolled a fortified, impassable Green Line from 1948 until 1967. In Nicosia, two walls and a buffer zone have segregated Turkish and Greek Cypriots since 1963. In Belfast, "peaceline" barricades have separated working-class Catholics and Protestants...
Walking Home
The Life and Lessons of a City Builder
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
One of the world's foremost urban designers shares his passion and methods for rejuvenating neglected cities and argues passionately for the importance and possibilities of their renewal.
From a youth spent in the boroughs of New York City and other great cities of the world, to his beginnings...
Small Business and the City
The Transformative Potential of Small Scale Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
In Small Business and the City, Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, and Matt Semansky highlight the power of small-scale entrepreneurship to transform local neighbourhoods and the cities they inhabit. Studying the factors which enable small businesses to survive and thrive, they highlight the success of a...
Suburban Urbanities
Suburbs and the Life of the High Street
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Suburban space has traditionally been understood as a formless remnant of physical city expansion, without a dynamic or logic of its own. Suburban Urbanities challenges this view by defining the suburb as a temporally evolving feature of urban growth.
Anchored in the architectural research...