City Villages

Author : Mark Jayne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351951289

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City of Quarters by Mark Jayne Pdf

In cities throughout the world, there is an increasingly ubiquitous presence of distinct social and spatial areas - urban villages, cultural and ethnic quarters. These spaces are sites where capital and culture intertwine in new ways. City of Quarters brings together some of the most prominent authors writing about urban villages to provide the first systematic and multi-disciplinary overview of this high-profile urban phenomenon. They address key questions such as 'What is the role of urban villages and quarters in the contemporary city?' and 'What are the economic, political, socio-spatial and cultural practices and processes that surround these urban spaces?' Blending conceptual chapters with theoretically directed case studies from all over the world, this book includes issues such as local and regional development strategies, production, consumption, the creative industries, popular culture, identity, lifestyle, and tourism.

Author : Shiyu Yang
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839469149

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Space Production by Migrants in China's Urban Villages by Shiyu Yang Pdf

As China races towards modernity, its cities are experiencing an unprecedented surge in urbanisation, characterised by a relentless influx of migrants and sprawling expansion into suburban realms. Shiyu Yang draws upon Henri Lefebvre's influential theoretical framework and applies it to case studies of two urban villages in Beijing to examine how migrants shape the social production of space in these districts. With a wealth of first-hand material from the field, this study provides essential insights into the ongoing processes and social dynamics that resonate with scholars from cross-disciplinary urban studies as well as practitioners in governance and urban planning.

Author : Da Wei David Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137504265

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Urban Villages in the New China by Da Wei David Wang Pdf

Focusing on Shenzhen as a representation of the general urban village phenomenon in China, this book considers the impact of China’s economic reform on urbanization and urban villages over the past three decades. Shenzhen’s urban villages are some of the first of their kind in China, unique in their diversity and organizational capacity, but most notably in their ability to protect village culture whilst coexisting with Shenzhen, one of the fastest urbanizing cities on earth. Providing a study of regional contrast of urban villages in China with newly collected fieldwork materials from Guangzhou, Beijing, and Xi’an, this book also considers recent developments within urban villages, including attempts at marketization of the so-called xiao chanquanfang (the quintessential urban village apartment units). It also addresses the corruption scandals that engulfed some urban villages in late 2013. Through cutting edge fieldwork, the author offers a cross-disciplinary study of the history, culture, socio-economic changes, and migration of the villages which arguably embody Chinese social mobility in an urban form.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789292576103

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The Emergence of Pacific Urban Villages by Asian Development Bank Pdf

This publication seeks to explain the nature of settlements termed “urban villages” as set within the context of growing levels of urbanization in contemporary Pacific towns and cities. It investigates the meaning and conceptualization of myriad forms of urban villages by examining the evolution of different types of settlement commonly known as native or traditional villages, and more recently squatter and informal settlements. It views village-like settlements such as squatter and informal settlements as a type of urban village, and examines the role these and other urban villages play in shaping and making the Pacific town and city and arguably, the Pacific village city. It presents key actions that Pacific countries and development partners need to consider as part of urban and national development plans when rethinking how to conceptualize the ongoing phenomena of urban villages while achieving a more equitable distribution of the benefits of urbanization.

Author : Peter Neal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134504114

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Urban Villages and the Making of Communities by Peter Neal Pdf

Urban regeneration is currently at the forefront of the political and professional agenda worldwide. There is a growing desire to identify and deliver solutions that not only define models of sustainable and identifiable urban form, but also underpin a real sense of a vibrant community. The design philosophy of Urban Villages has gained significant weight with government policy-makers, planners, designers and developers and is becoming a popular model in achieving a successful and flexible urban renaissance. This book documents both the roots of the Urban Village movement and its application in contemporary society. A series of essays by eminent practitioners offers particular urban perspectives. A detailed compendium of successful case-studies provides clear technical information. Urban Villages and the Making of Communities offers a professional resource, a teaching tool and learning aid.

Author : Stefan Al
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : MINN:31951D03793608H

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Villages in the City by Stefan Al Pdf

This book argues for the value of urban villages as places. To reveal their qualities, a series of drawings and photographs uncovers the immerse concentration of social life in their dense structures and provides a peek into residents homes and daily lives.

Author : Chittaranjan Dash
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Community development
ISBN : 8180698289

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Resource Mobilisation Through SHGs in Urban Villages by Chittaranjan Dash Pdf

Study conducted in Delhi, India.

Author : Ron Brown
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459746596

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Toronto's Lost Villages by Ron Brown Pdf

Explore the vestiges of the hamlets and villages that have been swallowed up by Toronto’s relentless growth. Over the course of more than two centuries, Toronto has ballooned from a muddy collection of huts on a swampy waterfront to Canada’s largest and most diverse city. Amid (and sometimes underneath) this urban agglomeration are the remains of many small communities that once dotted the region now known as Toronto and the GTA. Before European settlers arrived, Indigenous Peoples established villages on the shore of Lake Ontario. With the arrival of the English, a host of farm hamlets, tollgate stopovers, mill towns, and, later, railway and cottage communities sprang up. Vestiges of some are still preserved, while others have disappeared forever. Some are remembered, though many have been forgotten. In Toronto’s Lost Villages, all of their stories are brought back to life.

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015057932439

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Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 by United States. Bureau of the Census Pdf

Author : Jennifer Birch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135045111

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From Prehistoric Villages to Cities by Jennifer Birch Pdf

Archaeologists have focused a great deal of attention on explaining the evolution of village societies and the transition to a ‘Neolithic’ way of life. Considerable interest has also concentrated on urbanism and the rise of the earliest cities. Between these two landmarks in human cultural development lies a critical stage in social and political evolution. Throughout world, at various points in time, people living in small, dispersed village communities have come together into larger and more complex social formations. These community aggregates were, essentially, middle-range; situated between the earliest villages and emergent chiefdoms and states. This volume explores the social processes involved in the creation and maintenance of aggregated communities and how they brought about revolutionary transformations that affected virtually every aspect of a society and its culture. While there have been a number of studies that address coalescence from a regional perspective, less is understood about how aggregated communities functioned internally. The key premise explored in this volume is that large-scale, long-term cultural transformations were ultimately enacted in the context of daily practices, interactions, and what might be otherwise considered the mundane aspects of everyday life. How did these processes play out "on the ground" in diverse and historically contingent settings? What are the strategies and mechanisms that people adopt in order to facilitate living in larger social formations? What changes in social relations occur when people come together? This volume employs a broadly cross-cultural approach to interrogating these questions, employing case studies which span four continents and more than 10,000 years of human history.

Author : Judith Ann Trolander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0813044480

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From Sun Cities to the Villages by Judith Ann Trolander Pdf

"Youngtown, Arizona, opened in 1954 and was the first development community to have a minimum age requirement (then 65) and to ban underage children as permanent residents. The developer Del Webb unveiled Sun City six years later. Adjacent to Yountown, it offered modest homes abutting a golf course. In the ensuing decades, active adult communities have proliferated, including Harold Schwartz's The Villages in central Florida, today [America's] largest retirement community. For nearly sixty years, the success of these and similar communities has changed the image of retirees from frail, impoverished old people to energetic, well-off adults enjoying a resort-like lifestyle. While some experts predicted these communities would fail or undermine the obligations between generations, they are now firmly embedded as one possible extension of the American Dream. Judith Ann Trolander's study of the "active adult" lifestyle focuses specifically on how the development of age-restricted communities has redefined the sense of self-identity among the elderly; changed the popular image of retirees; called attention to attitudes of the elderly toward children; popularized golf-course, gated, and amenity-rich developments; and made this new, age-restricted lifestyle affordable or accessible to large numbers of retirees - some of whom may actually continue working. Examining the origins, development, failures, and challenges facing these communities as the baby boomer population continues to age, Trolander offers a truly original defense of a sometimes controversial aspect of American life."--Book cover.

Author : Zena Alkayat
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780711276222

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London Villages by Zena Alkayat Pdf

An intimate guide to the villages of London, filled with great ideas for days out which will delight tourists and locals alike.

Author : Nebraska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Election law
ISBN : HARVARD:HX4V5Q

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Election Laws of the State of Nebraska in Force August 1, 1897 by Nebraska Pdf

Author : Ohio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:HL3BR9

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The Revised Statutes of the State of Ohio by Ohio Pdf

Author : Prema Katari Gupta,Kathryn Terzano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSC:32106019660122

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Creating Great Town Centers and Urban Villages by Prema Katari Gupta,Kathryn Terzano Pdf

"What are the factors that make a town center exceptional and not just another routine shopping area? Packed with color photographs, site plans, and case studies of top new projects, as well as classics that have endured the test of time, this book gives you the inside story and the details on how town centers were developed and what makes them innovative. It provides hard-to-find facts on costs, rents, land uses, and more. A full chapter on trends analyzes what is working and what is coming next."--BOOK JACKET.