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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
'Trading zone' is a concept introduced by Peter Galison in his social scientific research on how scientists representing different sub-cultures and paradigms have been able to coordinate their interaction locally. In this book, Italian and Finnish planning researchers extend the use of the concept...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The stereotype of Africa as a predominantly 'natural' space ignores the existence of vibrant and cosmopolitan urban environments on the continent. Far from merely embodying backwardness and lack, African cities are sites of complex and diverse cultural productions which participate in modernity and...
Writing the Global City
Globalisation, Postcolonialism and the Urban
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Over the last three decades, our understanding of the city worldwide has been revolutionized by three innovative theoretical concepts – globalisation, postcolonialism and a radically contested notion of modernity. The idea and even the reality of the city has been extended out of the state and nation...
Beautiful Terrible Ruins
Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Once the manufacturing powerhouse of the nation, Detroit has become emblematic of failing cities everywhere—the paradigmatic city of ruins—and the epicenter of an explosive growth in images of urban decay. In Beautiful Terrible Ruins, art historian Dora Apel explores a wide array of these images,...
Death of a Suburban Dream
Race and Schools in Compton, California
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Compton, California, is often associated in the public mind with urban America's toughest problems, including economic disinvestment, gang violence, and failing public schools. Before it became synonymous with inner-city decay, however, Compton's affordability, proximity to manufacturing jobs, and...
Building the City of Spectacle
Mayor Richard M. Daley and the Remaking of Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
By the time he left office on May 16, 2011, Mayor Richard M. Daley had served six terms and more than twenty-two years at the helm of Chicago's City Hall, making him the longest serving mayor in the city’s history. Richard M. Daley was the son of the legendary machine boss, Mayor Richard J. Daley,...
Remaking London
Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Contemporary urban regeneration seeks to encourage diverse, creative new neighbourhoods that are rich in economic potential. Yet the end result frequently displaces precisely those qualities, activities and communities it claims to engender. Are people best served by a preoccupation with regeneration...
The Form of Cities in Central Canada
Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Do Canadian cities have a distinctive form? How has this form evolved over time; and what has been the impact of growth, transportation changes and differing lifestyles on the contemporary Canadian urban environment? The research summarized in the present volume is directed at these kinds of questions....
by Benjamin Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This book highlights an interdisciplinary terrain where the humanities and social sciences combine with digital methods. It argues that while disciplinary frictions still condition the potential of digital projects, the nature of the urban phenomenon pushes us toward an interdisciplinary and digital future where the primacy of cities is assured.
Posthuman Urbanism
Mapping Bodies in Contemporary City Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The World Health Organisation estimates that, by 2030, six out of every ten people in the world will live in a city. But what does it mean to inhabit the city in the twenty-first century?
Posthuman Urbanism evaluates the relevance and usefulness of posthuman theory to understanding the urban...
In Harm's Way
The Dynamics of Urban Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Arquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides—often involving young people—continue to skyrocket, and in the emergency room there, victims of shootings or knifings are an all-too-common sight. In Harm's Way...
Reinventing a Small, Worldly City
The Cultural and Social Transformation of Cardiff
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Focusing on Cardiff, the capital city of Wales in the UK, this book reflects on a contemporary small European city – its development, characteristics, and present struggles. Following a century in which it was dubbed the world’s ‘coaltropolis’, the decline in demand for coal meant that Cardiff...
Social Housing in the Middle East
Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
As oil-rich countries in the Middle East are increasingly associated with soaring skyscrapers and modern architecture, attention is being diverted away from the pervasive struggles of social housing in those same urban settings. Social Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing—both...
Land Law and Urban Policy in Context
Essays on the Contributions of Patrick McAuslan
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This book is a collection of essays honouring and engaging with the work of the late Professor Patrick McAuslan. It is a collection that narrates, analyses and critiques McAuslan’s contributions, as well as offering substantive perspectives on how his work has impacted the legal fields in which...