Urban category: 4425 books
by Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
In 2016, an estimated 54.5 per cent of the world’s population lived in urban settlements. By 2030, urban areas are projected to house 60 per cent of people globally and one in every three people will live in cities with at least half a million inhabitants. Understanding the key trends in urbanization...
Condo Conquest
Urban Governance, Law, and Condoization in New York City and Toronto
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
When condominiums first emerged in North American cities in the 1960s, they were a new kind of housing governed by boards of resident owners volunteering in a community. Condo Conquest shows how the condo and its inner governance have since become something else entirely, taken over – or conquered...
Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures
Contemporary International Cases
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Most new urban growth takes place in the suburbs; consequently, infrastructures are in a constant state of playing catch-up, creating repeated infrastructure crises in these peripheries. However, the push to address the tensions stemming from this rapid growth also allow the suburbs to be a major...
Migrants and City-Making
Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
In Migrants and City-Making Ayşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the participation of migrants in the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institutions. Grounding their work in comparative ethnographies of three cities struggling to regain their...
When Work Disappears
The World of the New Urban Poor
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson...
The End of the Suburbs
Where the American Dream Is Moving
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
“The government in the past created one American Dream at the expense of almost all others: the dream of a house, a lawn, a picket fence, two children, and a car. But there is no single American Dream anymore.”
For nearly 70 years, the suburbs were as American as apple pie. As the middle...
Streetfight
Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Like a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City's streets to make room for pedestrians, bikers, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change, Streetfight imparts wisdom and practical advice that other cities can follow to make their own streets...
Where We Want to Live
Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
**Winner, Phillip D. Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment**
**A Planetizen Top Planning Book for 2017**
After decades of sprawl, many American city and suburban residents struggle with issues related to traffic (and its accompanying challenges for our health...
Building Suburbia
Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
A lively and provocative history of the contested landscapes where the majority of Americans now live.
From rustic cottages reached by steamboat to big box stores at the exit ramps of eight-lane highways, Dolores Hayden defines seven eras of suburban development since 1820. An urban historian...
In Defense of Housing
The Politics of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it?
Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Pro fit has become more important...
Rights of Passage
Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow documents a powerful and under-researched form of urban governance that focuses on pedestrian flow. This logic, which Nicholas Blomley terms 'pedestrianism', values public space not in terms of its aesthetic merits, or its success in promoting...
Living Over the Store
Architecture and Local Urban Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
The shop/house – the building combining commercial/retail uses and dwellings – appears over many periods of history in most cities in the world. This book combines architectural history, cross-cultural understandings and accounts of contemporary policy and building practice to provide a comprehensive...
Vanishing New York
How a Great City Lost Its Soul
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
"ESSENTIAL READING FOR FANS OF JANE JACOBS, JOSEPH MITCHELL, PATTI SMITH, LUC SANTE AND CHEAP PIEROGI."--VANITY FAIR
An unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century and a love letter to lost New York by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing...
Making Rent in Bed-Stuy
A Memoir of Trying to Get By in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A young African American millennial filmmaker’s funny, sometimes painful, true-life coming-of-age story of trying to make it in New York City—a chronicle of poverty and wealth, creativity and commerce, struggle and insecurity, and the economic and cultural forces intertwined with "the serious,...