Urban category: 4425 books
The City in 2050
Creating Blueprints for Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The City in 2050 explores potential paths of innovation to prepare for the changes facing metropolitan areas over the next several decades as the world becomes more urbanized. The book is heavily illustrated with photographs, charts, maps, and drawings that give the reader a quick overview of the issues cities will face.
by Elijah Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
An acclaimed sociologist illuminates the public life of an American city, offering a major reinterpretation of the racial dynamics in America.
Following his award-winning work on inner-city violence, Code of the Street, sociologist Elijah Anderson introduces the concept of the “cosmopolitan...
Detroit
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub—and then the bottom fell out. Detroit*: A Biography* takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities and one of the nation's...
Unlocking Home
Three Keys to Affordable Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Award-winning author and leading green thinker Alan Durning takes a hard look at urban housing and sees what many others have missed. Hidden in city regulations is a set of simple but powerful barriers to affordable housing for all. These rules criminalize history’s answers to affordable dwellings:...
Brew to Bikes
Portland's Artisan Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Portland, Oregon—urban nexus for the artisan and entrepreneur, flourishing metropolis where goods both hip and homespun converge. Brew to Bikes celebrates emerging industries that combine the artisan aesthetic with business ingenuity and an ethos of sustainability. Author Charles Heying guides readers...
Up from Zero
Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
In Up from Zero, Paul Goldberger, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the inside story of the quest to rebuild one of the most important symbolic sites in the world, the sixteen acres where the towers of the former World Trade Center stood. A story of power, politics, architecture, community, and...
Britain's New Towns
Garden Cities to Sustainable Communities
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
The New Towns Programme of 1946 to 1970 was one of the most substantial periods of urban development in Britain. The New Towns have often been described as a social experiment; so what has this experiment proved?
This book covers the story of how these towns came to be built, how they aged,...
How to Kill a City
Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A journey to the front lines of the battle for the future of American cities, uncovering the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification--and the lives that are altered in the process.
The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the...
Why Detroit matters
Decline, renewal and hope in a divided city
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Detroit has come to symbolise deindustrialization and the challenges, and opportunities, it presents. As many cities struggle with urban decline, racial and ethnic tensions and the consequences of neoliberal governance and political fragmentation, Detroit’s relevance grows stronger. Why Detroit...
Making the Second Ghetto
Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
In Making the Second Ghetto, Arnold Hirsch argues that in the post-depression years Chicago was a "pioneer in developing concepts and devices" for housing segregation. Hirsch shows that the legal framework for the national urban renewal effort was forged in the heat generated by the racial...
Environmental Inequalities
Class, Race, and Industrial Pollution in Gary, Indiana, 1945-1980
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
By examining environmental change through the lens of conflicting social agendas, Andrew Hurley uncovers the historical roots of environmental inequality in contemporary urban America. Hurley's study focuses on the steel mill community of Gary, Indiana, a city that was sacrificed, like a thousand...
The Politics of the Piazza
The History and Meaning of the Italian Square
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Through a detailed study of the principal spaces of Italian cities, this book explores the relationship between political systems and their methods of representation in architecture. Illustrated by contemporary photographs and analytical drawings, it examines significant piazzas and situates these...
Some Great Idea
Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of Toronto's ascendance as a mature global city. Some Great Idea...
Nine-tenths of the Law
Property and Resistance in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
"Millions of foreclosed homes and abandoned buildings on one hand; millions of Americans desperate for decent shelter on the other. Hannah Dobbz makes the necessary addition of resources and needs in a book that is both a brilliant history of squatting in the USA and a template for the next stage...