Urban category: 4425 books
by Ken Auletta
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
How - and why - did one of the world's greatest cities come to be teetering on the edge of bankruptcy? Ken Auletta, writer for THE NEW YORKER and columnist for THE DAILY NEWS, shows how the decline of New York City was partly inevitable --- the result of shifting migration patterns and rapidl technological...
The Creative Capital of Cities
Interactive Knowledge Creation and the Urbanization Economies of Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
This book challenges the new urban growth concepts of the creative class and creative industries from a critical urban theory perspective.
Critiques Richard Florida's popular books about cities and the creative class
Presents an alternative approach based on analyses of empirical research data...
Creating the Unequal City
The Exclusionary Consequences of Everyday Routines in Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Cities can be seen as geographical imaginaries: places have meanings attributed so that they are perceived, represented and interpreted in a particular way. We may therefore speak of cityness rather than 'the city': the city is always in the making. It cannot be grasped as a fixed structure in which...
by Alan Ehrenhalt
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City we travel the nation with Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanists, as he explains how America’s cities are changing, what makes them succeed or fail, and what this means for our future.
Just a couple of decades ago, we took it for granted...
by The Worldwatch Institute
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Cities 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...
Model City Blues
Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Model City Blues tells the story of how regular people, facing a changing city landscape, fought for their own model of the “ideal city” by creating grassroots plans for urban renewal. Filled with vivid descriptions of significant moments in a protracted struggle, it offers a street-level account...
ReBerth
Stories from Cities on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Featuring: Alexei Sayle, Dinesh Allirajah, Valeria Parrella, Pawel Huelle, Adam Kaminski, Peppe Lanzetta, Claudia Parman, Artur Becker, Murathan Mungan, Hatice Meryem, Jean-Claude Izzo and Christian Garcin.
The six European port cities known as the ‘Cities on the Edge’ – Liverpool, Bremen,...
Subdivided
City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
How do we build cities where we aren't just living within the same urban space, but living together?
Greater Toronto is now home to a larger proportion of foreign-born residents than any other major global metropolis. Not surprisingly, city officials rarely miss an opportunity to tout the region’s...
Field Notes from a Hidden City
An Urban Nature Diary
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Field Notes From a Hidden City is set against the background of the austere, grey and beautiful northeast Scottish city of Aberdeen. In it, Esther Woolfson examines the elements-geographic, atmospheric and environmental-which bring diverse life forms to live in close proximity in cities. Using the...
Heat Wave
A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. Meteorologists had been warning residents about a two-day...
A Nation of Neighborhoods
Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Despite the pundits who have written its epitaph and the latter-day refugees who have fled its confines for the half-acre suburban estate, the city neighborhood has endured as an idea central to American culture. In A Nation of Neighborhoods, Benjamin Looker presents us with the city neighborhood...
by Fengshu Liu
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China. In 2008, the total of Internet users in China had reached 253 million (in comparison with 22.5 million in 2001). Yet, despite rapid growth, the...
Anthropology of Los Angeles
Place and Agency in an Urban Setting
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of L.A. by revealing the gray spaces between the real and imagined city. Contributors to this urban ethnography document hidden histories that connect daily actors within cultural systems...
Havana beyond the Ruins
Cultural Mappings after 1989
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
In Havana beyond the Ruins, prominent architects, scholars, and writers based in and outside of Cuba analyze how Havana has been portrayed in literature, music, and the visual arts since Soviet subsidies of Cuba ceased, and the Cuban state has re-imagined Havana as a destination for international...