Urban category: 4425 books
Places Women Make
Unearthing the contribution of women to our cities
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
"Places Women Make" tells stories of women shaping the Australian city - its buildings, spaces, and social and political agendas. Jane Jose takes a fresh look at city life, great places and the unsung urban heroines who made them. She explores the design of cities, the places we need and...
Fields of Authority
Special Purpose Governance in Ontario, 1815-2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Everywhere we turn in Canadian local politics – from policing to transit, education to public health, planning to utilities – we encounter a peculiar institutional animal: the special purpose body. These “ABCs” of local government – library boards, school boards, transit authorities, and...
Public Problems - Private Solutions?
Globalizing Cities in the South
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Cities and city regions are undergoing rapid transformation. They are prime locations of innovation, while at the same time facing growing problems of spatial fragmentation and social exclusion. By addressing these problems, cities become forerunners for new patterns of governance, which include increasingly...
From the Outside In
Suburban Elites, Third-Sector Organizations, and the Reshaping of Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
In From the Outside In, Carolyn T. Adams addresses the role of suburban elites in setting development agendas for urban municipalities and their larger metropolitan regions. She shows how major nongovernmental, nonmarket institutions are taking responsibility for reshaping Philadelphia, led by suburban...
Re-shaping Cities
How Global Mobility Transforms Architecture and Urban Form
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This original collection examines how architectural ideas, social models and building forms circulate round the world and become mediated and adapted to local conditions. The book shows how types such as skyscrapers, mosques or living history museums are imported, adapted and contested in different...
Development Derailed
Calgary and the CPR , 1962–64
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In June of 1962, the Canadian Pacific Railway announced a proposal to redevelop part of its reserved land in the heart of downtown Calgary. In an effort to bolster its waning revenues and to redefine its urban presence, the CPR proposed a multimillion dollar development project that included retail,...
Beyond Preservation
Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2010
Across the United States, historic preservation has become a catalyst for urban regeneration. Entrepreneurs, urban pioneers, and veteran city dwellers have refurbished thousands of dilapidated properties and put them to productive use as shops, restaurants, nightclubs, museums, and private residences....
by Ugo Rossi
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
In what ways are cities central to the evolution of contemporary global capitalism? And in what ways is global capitalism forged by the urban experience? This book provides a response to these questions, exploring the multifaceted dimensions of the city-capitalism nexus.
Drawing on a wide range...
There Goes the Hood
Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
In this revealing book, Lance Freeman sets out to answer a seemingly simple question: how does gentrification actually affect residents of neighborhoods in transition? To find out, Freeman does what no scholar before him has done. He interviews the indigenous residents of two predominantly black neighborhoods...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Slums, informal settlements, and dilapidated inner-city tenements are problems that many cities in Asia and the Pacific struggle with while their economies try to modernize and develop. Their existence puts at risk not only these economies but also poor people occupying vulnerable areas that climate...
The Good City
Reflections and Imaginations
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Cities, Allan B. Jacobs contends, ought to be magnificent, beautiful places to live. They should be places where people can be fulfilled, where they can be what they can be, where there is freedom, love, ideas, excitement, quiet and joy. Cities ought to be the ultimate manifestation of society’s...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Can counter insurgency strategies be used to fight urban gangs? This question was discussed in a conversation between the Mayor of Salinas, the Provost of the Naval Postgraduate School and Representative Sam Farr. It became apparent during that discussion that there were many similarities between...
by John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, Marc Lamont Hill
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Gentrifier opens up a new conversation about gentrification, one that goes beyond the statistics and the clichés, and examines different sides of a controversial, deeply personal issue. In this lively yet rigorous book, John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, and Marc Lamont Hill take a close look at...
by Mitchell Duneier
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2000
An exceptional ethnography marked by clarity and candor, Sidewalk takes us into the socio-cultural environment of those who, though often seen as threatening or unseemly, work day after day on "the blocks" of one of New York's most diverse neighborhoods. Sociologist Duneier, author of Slim's...