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Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean Communities in Japan
A Complex Adaptive Systems Theory Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean Communities in Japan utilizes the theoretical model of complex adaptive systems and introduces the concept of function-based spatiality to investigate the roles of the urban environments of Tokyo and Osaka in the development of Korean communities...
Common Ground in a Liquid City
Essays in Defense of an Urban Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
If we want to preserve what's still left of the natural world, we need to stop using so much of it. And, says veteran environmental activist Matt Hern, cities are the best chance we have left for a truly ecological future . . . but what does it take to make a truly sustainable city?Common Ground...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
In less than a century, the American West has transformed from a predominantly rural region to one where most people live in metropolitan centers. Cities and Nature in the American West offers provocative analyses of this transformation. Each essay explores the intersection of environmental, urban,...
When Architecture Meets Activism
The Transformative Experience of Hank Williams Village in the Windy City
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
This social history and community study documents the events surrounding the attempt by community members, activists, and VISTA architects to resist the planned construction of a community college in the neighborhood of Uptown. The planner and architect are seldom envisioned as advocates for the urban...
Transparent Urban Development
Building Sustainability Amid Speculation in Phoenix
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This book studies both the tangible benefits and substantial barriers to sustainable development in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. Utilizing mixed research methods to probe downtown Phoenix’s political economy of development, this study illustrates how non-local property ownership and land speculation...
Insurgent Public Space
Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
Winner of the EDRA book prize for 2012.
In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places. These ‘insurgent public spaces’ challenge conventional views of how urban areas are defined and used, and how...
The Dead City
Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Cities are imagined not just as utopias, but also as ruins. In literature, film, art and popular culture, urban landscapes have been submerged by floods, razed by alien invaders, abandoned by fearful inhabitants and consumed in fire. The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Recent advances in information and communication technologies have enhanced the standards of metropolitan planning and development. These innovations have led to new opportunities in this evolving profession. Emerging Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities in Urban E-Planning brings together the efficiency...
by Thomas Hall
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Planning and Urban Growth in Nordic Countries examines urban development and planning in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Emphasis is on the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, and the authors of each 'country-study' look at their own national developments against the background of those in other Nordic countries well as the rest of Europe and the USA.
The Neoliberal City
Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The shift in the ideological winds toward a "free-market" economy has brought profound effects in urban areas. The Neoliberal City presents an overview of the effect of these changes on today's cities. The term "neoliberalism" was originally used in reference to a set of practices that first-world...
Watching the Traffic Go By
Transportation and Isolation in Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
As twentieth-century city planners invested in new transportation systems to deal with urban growth, they ensured that the automobile rather than mass transit would dominate transportation. Combining an exploration of planning documents, sociological studies, and popular culture, Paul Fotsch shows...
The Urban Geography of Boxing
Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This book is an interdisciplinary cultural examination of twenty-first century boxing as a professional sport, a bodily labor, a lucrative business, a popular entertainment, and an instrument of ideology. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted with Latino boxers, women boxers, and...
The African Metropolis
Struggles over Urban Space, Citizenship, and Rights to the City
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
On a planet where urbanization is rapidly expanding, nowhere is the growth more pronounced than in cities of the global South, and in particular, Africa. African metropolises are harbingers of the urban challenges that lie ahead as societies grapple with the fractured social, economic, and political...
Mapping Decline
St. Louis and the Fate of the American City
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American...