Urban category: 4425 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This text focuses on cities as the dominant form of human settlement for the future, examining the transformation that is happening in urban connobations worldwide today. The last few decades have seen a rate of change and growth in cities that has never been seen before, resulting in giant metropoles...
Lost Worlds
Indian Labour and Its Forgotten Histories
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book takes the present context of globalisation and the decline of large-scale industry as its entry point into the worlds of labour in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using a wide range of oral and archival sources as well as popular literature, Chitra Joshi reconstructs working...
Embodying Cape Town
Engaging the City through its Built Edges and Contact Zones
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
This book examines the reciprocity that exists between the body and the urban built environment. It will draw on archival and ethnographic research as well as an interdisciplinary literature on cultural materialism, semiotics, and aesthetics to challenge dualist interpretations of four different...
Rethinking the American City
An International Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Whether struggling in the wake of postindustrial decay or reinventing themselves with new technologies and populations, cities have once again moved to the center of intellectual and political concern. Rethinking the American City brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to examine...
Relational Planning
Tracing Artefacts, Agency and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This volume introduces the notion of ‘relational planning’ through a collection of theoretical and empirical contributions that explore the making of heterogeneous associations in the planning practice. The analytical concept builds on recent approaches to complexity and materiality in planning...
Small, Gritty, and Green
The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
How small-to-midsize Rust Belt cities can play a crucial role in a low-carbon, sustainable, and relocalized future.
America's once-vibrant small-to-midsize cities—Syracuse, Worcester, Akron, Flint, Rockford, and others—increasingly resemble urban wastelands. Gutted by deindustrialization,...
Artistic Lives
A Study of Creativity in Two European Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Artistic Lives examines cultural production as a non-standard, self-directed, and frequently unpaid activity, which is susceptible to developments that affect the availability of unstructured time. It engages with discourses which have historically had little to do with the arts, including urban sociology...
Studies in Temporal Urbanism
The urbanTick Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
This book is very much about what the name urbanTick literally says, about the ticking of the urban, the urban as we experience it everyday on the bus, in the park or between buildings. It is about the big orchestrated mass migration of commuters, the seasonal blossoms of the trees along the walkway...
Ranking the Liveability of the World's Major Cities
The Global Liveable Cities Index (GLCI)
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
This unique volume aims to provide a first comprehensive assessment on attributes, conditions and characters which constitute a liveable city. The book posits that the degree of liveability depends on five themes: satisfaction with the freedom from want; satisfaction with the state of the natural...
by Daniel Hinchcliffe, Judith Rugg
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
This second volume of the series 'Advances in Art & Urban Futures' brings together contributions from artists, sociologists, architects and cultural theorists in addressing the recoveries and reclamations being made within urban and rural landscapes as a result of the fallout of redevelopment...
Vertical
The City from Satellites to Bunkers
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A revolutionary reimagining of the cities we live in, the air above us, and what goes on in the earth beneath our feet
Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be understood as a series of vertical strata that reach from the satellites that...
The Taxi-Dance Hall
A Sociological Study in Commercialized Recreation and City Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
First published in 1932, The Taxi-Dance Hall is Paul Goalby Cressey’s fascinating study of Chicago’s urban nightlife—as seen through the eyes of the patrons, owners, and dancers-for-hire who frequented the city’s notoriously seedy “taxi-dance” halls.
Taxi-dance halls, as the introduction...
Mediterranean Urbanism
Historic Urban / Building Rules and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
This book brings together historic urban / building rules and codes for the geographic areas including Greece, Italy and Spain. The author achieved his ambitious goal of finding pertinent rules and codes that were followed in previous societies for the processes that formed the built environment of...
Regulating Place
Standards and the Shaping of Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Tracing how codes arose when they did, and how they were adapted over time, the authors examine the increasing influence of regulatory codes over urban design and planning in the past century.