Urban category: 4425 books
Deconstructing Placemaking
Needs, Opportunities, and Assets
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
A new taxonomy of placemaking is needed; concerns have been expressed about the professionalization of placemaking through the proliferation of standards, zoning codes, and restrictive covenants. "Place matters" has become a mantra in many disciplines - architecture, urban planning and...
E-Planning and Collaboration
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
As population growth accelerates, researchers and professionals face challenges as they attempt to plan for the future. E-planning is a significant component in addressing the key concerns as the world population moves towards urban environments. E-Planning and Collaboration: Concepts, Methodologies,...
by Alex Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
"A brave foray into the interdisciplinary and a serious attempt to cover city life in all its complexity... Franklin's optimism about the city is refreshing. He revels in the growing human and cultural diversity and the 're-emergence and spread of a more tolerant, carnivalesque, culture-driven...
Realising the city
Urban ethnography in Manchester
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This edited collection explores what happens when a city administration tries to bring their vision for a city into being. It provides ethnographic accounts that complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester’s renaissance.
Life in the Megalopolis
Mexico City and Sao Paulo
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The modern metropolis has been called 'the symbol of our times', and life in it epitomizes, for many, modernity itself. But what to make of inherited ideas of modernity when faced with life in Mexico City and São Paulo, two of the largest metropolises in the world? Is their fractured reality, their...
Selling EthniCity
Urban Cultural Politics in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Bringing together a multidisciplinary team of scholars, this book explores the importance of ethnicity and cultural economy in the post-Fordist city in the Americas. It argues that cultural, political and economic elites make use of cultural and ethnic elements in city planning and architecture in...
The Slow Boil
Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Street food vendors are both a symbol and a scourge of Mumbai: cheap roadside snacks are enjoyed by all, but the people who make them dance on a razor's edge of legality. While neighborhood associations want the vendors off cluttered sidewalks, many Mumbaikers appreciate the convenient bargains they...
Weird City
Sense of Place and Creative Resistance in Austin, Texas
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Austin, Texas, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, is experiencing one of the most dynamic periods in its history. Wedged between homogenizing growth and a long tradition of rebellious nonconformity, many Austinites feel that they are in the midst of a battle for the city's soul.From...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
As an ethnographic method walking has a long history, but it has only recently begun to attract focused attention. By walking alongside participants, researchers have been able to observe, experience, and make sense of a broad range of everyday practices. At the same time, the idea of talking and...
Post-cosmopolitan Cities
Explorations of Urban Coexistence
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city. The contributors consider the effects of migration, national, and religious revivals (with their new aesthetic sensibilities), the dispositions of marginalized economic actors, and globalized...
MetroGreen
Connecting Open Space in North American Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
In metropolitan areas across the country, you can hear the laments over the loss of green space to new subdivisions and strip malls. But some city residents have taken unprecedented measures to protect their open land, and a growing movemseeks not only to preserve these lands but to link them in green...
Cities and Suburbs
New Metropolitan Realities in the US
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This book is a systematic examination of the historical and current roles that cities and suburbs play in US metropolitan areas. It explores the history of cities and suburbs, their changing dynamics with each other, their growing diversity, the environmental consequences of their development and...
Selling Ethnic Neighborhoods
The Rise of Neighborhoods as Places of Leisure and Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
While ethnic neighborhoods are usually associated with poverty, crime and social problems, they have also emerged as places of leisure and consumption, providing opportunities for numerous entrepreneurs and employees. Local and national governments and other regulatory actors, as well as the media,...
Sustainable Development for Central and Eastern Europe
Spatial Development in the European Context
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Central and Eastern European Countries are undergoing a difficult transition process with consequences for spatial development. Europe needs a more bal anced, polycentric system of cities, a new urban-rural relationship, parity of ac cess to infrastructure and knowledge as well as prudent management...