Constructing Metropolitan Space

Author : Jill Simone Gross,Enrico Gualini,Lin Ye
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351212069

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Constructing Metropolitan Space by Jill Simone Gross,Enrico Gualini,Lin Ye Pdf

There is little question today that processes of globalization affect national and local economies, governance processes, and conditions for economic competitiveness in the major urban regions of the world. In most liberal-democratic countries, these processes are occurring according to a rationale which attempts to combine strategies of state-supported development with increasing local-regional governmental decentralization and autonomy. Against this background, the issue of metropolitan development is being redefined worldwide, along with its institutional frameworks, modes of governance, policy instruments, and spatial planning strategies. The overarching assumption of this volume is that ‘metropolitan space’, far from being consolidated as a policy object, is currently being redefined and in some instances ‘constructed’ and contested as a scale, through a variety of policy practices related to spatial-economic development objectives. Through case studies drawn from across four continents, the authors reveal a range of interesting cross-national commonalities concerning the power that state actors, situated at various spatial scales, exert as agents in these processes. This volume interrogates key research issues raised by these developments, and is intended as a contribution to the establishment of a globally comparative analysis of the construction of metropolitan spaces and scales under conditions of globalization and neoliberalization.

Author : Karsten Zimmermann,Daniel Galland,John Harrison
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030256326

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Metropolitan Regions, Planning and Governance by Karsten Zimmermann,Daniel Galland,John Harrison Pdf

The aim of this book is to investigate contemporary processes of metropolitan change and approaches to planning and governing metropolitan regions. To do so, it focuses on four central tenets of metropolitan change in terms of planning and governance: institutional approaches, policy mobilities, spatial imaginaries, and planning styles. The book’s main contribution lies in providing readers with a new conceptual and analytical framework for researching contemporary dynamics in metropolitan regions. It will chiefly benefit researchers and students in planning, urban studies, policy and governance studies, especially those interested in metropolitan regions. The relentless pace of urban change in globalization poses fundamental questions about how to best plan and govern 21st-century metropolitan regions. The problem for metropolitan regions—especially for those with policy and decision-making responsibilities—is a growing recognition that these spaces are typically reliant on inadequate urban-economic infrastructure and fragmented planning and governance arrangements. Moreover, as the demand for more ‘appropriate’—i.e., more flexible, networked and smart—forms of planning and governance increases, new expressions of territorial cooperation and conflict are emerging around issues and agendas of (de-)growth, infrastructure expansion, and the collective provision of services.

Author : Dorothee Brantz,Sasha Disko,Georg Wagner-Kyora
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839420430

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Thick Space by Dorothee Brantz,Sasha Disko,Georg Wagner-Kyora Pdf

Could the concepts of »metropolitanism« and »thick space« aid our understanding of historical and contemporary urban change? Essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic provide interdisciplinary approaches to the complex dynamics of large-scale urbanization. The book opens with conceptual questions regarding the development of metropoles and metropolitan studies. The following sections provide analyses of the social, environmental, and cultural dimensions of metropolitan spaces from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective, such as the role of planning and urban parks, the impact of ethnic diversity and segregation, the place of cinematic visions or the centrality of infrastructures and architecture.

Author : Jon Agar,Crosbie Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781349263240

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Making Space for Science by Jon Agar,Crosbie Smith Pdf

In recent years there has been a growing recognition that a mature analysis of scientific and technological activity requires an understanding of its spatial contexts. Without these contexts, indeed, scientific practice as such is scarcely conceivable. Making Space for Science brings together contributors with diverse interests in the history, sociology and cultural studies of science and technology since the Renaissance. The editors aim to provide a series of studies, drawn from the history of science and engineering, from sociology and sociology and science, from literature and science, and from architecture and design history, which examine the spatial foundations of the sciences from a number of complementary perspectives.

Author : Stefano Di Vita,Corinna Morandi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319677682

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Mega-Events and Legacies in Post-Metropolitan Spaces by Stefano Di Vita,Corinna Morandi Pdf

This book offers new perspectives through which to observe and interpret mega-events. Using the specific case studies of World’s Fairs, Di Vita and Morandi present a report of the Milan Expo 2015 and its trans-scalar legacies. While the event and post-event have been affected by the world crisis, the locations of exhibition areas have greatly expanded, encompassing regional as well as post-metropolitan spaces. The two main aims of comparing Milan to previous expos such as Lisbon 1998, Zaragoza 2008 and Shanghai 2010, were to demonstrate the contribution of the 2015 World’s Fair to the urban innovation process and to the debate surrounding a new urban agenda; as well as to examine empirically and theoretically the international discussion regarding the growth of regional and macro-regional scales of contemporary cities in order to offer suggestions for future urban agendas through mega-events. This book will be of great value to students, researchers and policy makers in the area of urban planning and the urban studies more broadly, geography and spatial politics.

Author : Antonella Contin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783030744243

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Metropolitan Landscapes by Antonella Contin Pdf

This edited volume covers many aspects of the Metropolitan Landscapes. Solutions are needed to meet the demand of the citizens of a renewed metropolitan region landscape. It opens up discussions about possible toolkits for strategic actions based on understanding the territory from geographical, urban, architectural, economic, environmental, and public policy perspectives. This book intends to promote the Metropolitan dwelling quality, ensuring human well-being proposing a discussion on the resilient articulation of the interface space among the city's infrastructure, agriculture, and nature. This book results from the Symposium: Metropolitan Landscapes that MSLab of the Politecnico di Milano and ETSA (Sevilla) organized at the IALE 2019 Conference (Milan, July 2019) to manage radical territory transformation with a strategic vision. The widespread growth of urban areas indicates the importance of building resilient sustainable cities capable of minimizing climate-change impact production. The Symposium aimed to discuss the Urban Metabolism approach considering the combination of Landscapes set in a single Metropolitan Ecosystem. Accordingly, new design strategies of transformation, replacement or maintenance can compose Urban-Rural Linkage patterns and a decalage of different landscape contexts. Ecological interest in environmental sustainability, compatibility, and resilience is not tied exclusively to the balance between production and energy consumption. Thus, it is the integration over time and at several scales of the urban and rural landscapes and their inhabitants that nourish the Metropolitan Bioregion. Moreover, the Metropolitan Landscape Book's research hypothesis is the need for a Glossary, strengthening the basis of understanding Metropolitan Landscape's complexity. This book's topic is particularly relevant to Landscape Urbanism, Architecture, Urban disciplines Scholars, Students and Practitioners who want to be connected in a significant way with Metropolitan Discipline’s research field.

Author : Adama Belemviré
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781447348443

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The Self-Build Experience by Adama Belemviré Pdf

This book investigates self-build housing for low and middle-income groups in urbanized areas in three different continents: South America (Brazil and Ecuador), Europe (the Netherlands, Albany, and Turkey) and Africa (Ethiopia, Egypt and Burkina Faso). Although the levels of social and economic prosperity and the related housing and urban context across these three continents are vastly different, there is a recurring central field of tension of governmental regulation vis- -vis societal self-regulation. The following question will be at the center of the book: How is the capacity for self-regulation in practices of self-build housing and facilities related to formal domains of governance and regulation and how can this relationship be optimized to create more socially sustainable forms of urbanization?

Author : Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges,Rolf Solli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015055454352

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Organizing Metropolitan Space and Discourse by Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges,Rolf Solli Pdf

Representing many different disciplines, the book will attract any reader interested in urban problems.

Author : Manik Barman,Musharraf Zaman,Jia-Ruey Chang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319957685

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Transportation and Geotechniques: Materials, Sustainability and Climate by Manik Barman,Musharraf Zaman,Jia-Ruey Chang Pdf

This book deals with the attempts made by the scientists, researchers and practitioners to address different emerging issues in transportation and geotechnical engineering. Papers focus on the following: (i) polymer-based dust suppressant,(ii) cement concrete materials, (iii) pavement preservation techniques, (iv) frost front in a cold-region circular tunnel, (v) metro station in non-cemented soil, (vi) seismic-liquefaction, (vii) mechanical responses of asphalt pavement at bridge approach, (viii) warm mix asphalt, and (ix) behavior of pile foundation. This volume is useful for the researchers and practitioners who work in the area transportation and geotechincal engineering. Papers were selected from the 5th GeoChina International Conference 2018 – Civil Infrastructures Confronting Severe Weathers and Climate Changes: From Failure to Sustainability, held on July 23 to 25, 2018 in HangZhou, China.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Government publications
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019596639

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Public Buildings Policies Oversight by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Actar
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Public spaces
ISBN : 848788122X

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Re-Visiting Metropolitan Barcelona by Anonim Pdf

The Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) is public institution with the primary mission of structuring and unifying the territory, and its Public Space Services Directorate is responsible for designing and constructing the public spaces that connect and define the 36 municipalities that make up the metropolitan city. In addition to compiling and presenting the projects built in the 2013-2017 period, this book takes a look back at the work carried out over the last 30 years, and outlines new ways forward in the design and construction of metropolitan public space.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030144547

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County State Aid Hwy 18 Construction from I-494 to TH-13 and TH-101, Hennepin/Scott Counties by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Construction industry
ISBN : MINN:31951D02110584A

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Major Non-residential Construction Projects in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2028 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Executive departments
ISBN : MINN:31951P01180956P

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Independent Offices Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1967 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Bicentennial Affairs, the Environment, and the International Community
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976
ISBN : LOC:00098412438

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Bicentennial Planning in Washington and Metropolitan Area by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Bicentennial Affairs, the Environment, and the International Community Pdf