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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Education, long the key to opportunity in the United States, has become simply essential to earning a decent living. By 2018, 63 percent of all jobs will require at least some postsecondary education or training. Teachers and civic leaders stress the value of study through high school and beyond,...
Smart City
How to Create Public and Economic Value with High Technology in Urban Space
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the various aspects for the development of smart cities from a European perspective. It presents both theoretical concepts as well as empirical studies and cases of smart city programs and their capacity to create value for citizens. The contributions...
Smart City Implementation
Creating Economic and Public Value in Innovative Urban Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
In a series of essays, this book describes and analyzes the concept and theory of the recent smart city phenomenon from a global perspective, with a focus on its implementation around the world. After defining the concept it then elaborates on the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)...
The Organization of Transport
A History of Users, Industry, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Over the past ten years, the study of mobility has demonstrated groundbreaking approaches and new research patterns. These investigations criticize the concept of mobility itself, suggesting the need to merge transport and communication research, and to approach the topic with novel instruments and...
Routledge Revivals: Localities (1989)
The Changing Face of Urban Britain
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
First published in 1989, this book examines seven different localities, ranging from the outer suburbs of large northern cities to small freestanding town, which were prospering in the 1980s or struggling against the negative employment effects of restructuring. Within the theoretical frame of ‘industrial...
Radical Cities
Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city?
In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico...
Holes In The Whole
Introduction to the Urban Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
'Holes in The Whole' seeks meaning and reasons for the existence of the city. It demonstrates the urgent need to expand the sphere of urban activity - to define the city not only as a territory of exploitation, but as space of human existence in its fullest dimension. The book defines the conditions...
by Marcel Hénaff
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
The planet is urbanizing at an accelerating pace. More than half of the world’s population now lives in metropolises. By 2030, that proportion is expected to increase to 60%. Even though many cities are unhealthy, the urban habitat seems destined to become the dominant way of life across the globe....
by Peter Calthorpe, William Fulton
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
MAmericans today do not live in discrete cities and towns, but rather in an aggregation of cities and suburbs that forms one basic economic, multi-cultural, environmental and civic entity. These “regional cities” have the potential to significantly improve the quality of our lives--to provide...
Policies and Practices in Italian Welfare Housing
Turin, up to the Current Neo-Liberal Approach and Social Innovation Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2016
This book offers a European perspective on urban planning and spatial design by outlining housing policies in Southern Europe and their evolution. Through a unique case study on the city of Turin it explores social innovation and the relationship between the urban regeneration process and housing...
Our Schools Suck
Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
"Our schools suck." This is how many young people of color call attention to the kind of public education they are receiving. In cities across the nation, many students are trapped in under-funded, mismanaged and unsafe schools. Yet, a number of scholars and of public figures like Bill Cosby have...
City of the Good
Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is Right
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
How we came to seek absolute good in religion and nature—and why that quest often leads us astray
People have long looked to nature and the divine as paths to the good. In this panoramic meditation on the harmonious life, Michael Mayerfeld Bell traces how these two paths came to be seen as...
The Barn House
Confessions of an Urban Rehabber
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
A rollicking yarn about a home-improvement project that took a man and his family to hell and back.
In 1993, after Chicago lost many of its residents to the suburbs, Ed Zotti and his family gambled their future by fixing up a dilapidated Victorian home in a dicey neighborhood. Where most saw...
New York's New Edge
Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
The story of New York’s west side no longer stars the Sharks and the Jets. Instead it’s a story of urban transformation, cultural shifts, and an expanding contemporary art scene. The Chelsea Gallery District has become New York’s most dominant neighborhood for contemporary art, and the streets...