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Author : Dennis R. Judd,Dick W. Simpson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780816665754
Reexamining urban scholarship for the twenty-first century.
Author : Thomas Deckker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135802493
The supposed rationality of the urban planning of the Modern Movement encompassed a variety of attitudes towards history, technology and culture, from the vision of Berlin as an American metropolis, through the dispute between the urbanists and disurbanists in the Soviet Union to the technocratic and austere vision of Le Corbusier. After the Second World War, architects attempted to reconcile these utopian visions to the practical problems of constructing - or reconstructing - urban environments, from Piero Bottoni at the Quartiere Trienale 8 in Milan in 1951 to Lucio Costa at Bras'lia in 1957. In the 1970s, the collapse of Modernism brought about universial condemnation of Modern urbanism; urban planning,and rationality itself, were thrown into doubt. However, such a wholesale condemnation hides the complex realities underlying these Modern cities. The contributors define some of the theoretical foundations of Modern urban planning, and reassess the successes and the failures of the built results. The book ends with contrasting views of the inheritance of Modern urbanism in the United States and the Netherlands.
Author : Edward C. Banfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UOM:39015007543294
Author : Greg Girard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Documentary photography
ISBN : OCLC:896883788
Author : Gerald M. MacLean,Donna Landry,Joseph P. Ward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521592011
A revisionist interdisciplinary study of the transformation of England into an imperial power between 1550 and 1850.
Author : William H. Sokolic,Robert E. Ruffolo, Jr.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0738549045
In 1854, a group of engineers and railroad businessmen drew a straight line from Philadelphia to the New Jersey coast, built a railroad along the line, and created Atlantic City. From the 1850s to the 1950s, the city attracted the creme of American society and the working class alike and gave birth to the beauty pageant, rolling chair, boardwalk, saltwater taffy, jitney, and the successful Monopoly board game. But the onset of air travel in the 1950s and the aging grand hotels brought Atlantic City to its knees. The opening of Resorts International in 1978 and the prosperous gaming business that followed in its wake helped the city rise from its own ashes, and a year-round tourism industry exploded. Garish and opulent casino hotels replaced many of the boardwalk dowagers, and new palaces transformed the once desolate marina section into a vibrant destination.
Author : Ken Regan
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781973631828
In his first book of poetry, Living Within a City, published in 1978, the author explores themes of loss, separation, and finally hope, lifting itself past walls of confinement. Now, forty years later, the author revisits those themes in a sequel to that first collection, still finding the hope that rises out of the daily struggles of life.
Author : Douglas S. Kelbaugh
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780295997513
Repairing the American Metropolis is based on Douglas Kelbaugh’s Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design, first published in 1997. It is more timely and significant than ever, with new text, charts, and images on architecture, sprawl, and New Urbanism, a movement that he helped pioneer. Theory and policies have been revised, refined, updated, and developed as compelling ways to plan and design the built environment. This is an indispensable book for architects, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, architecture and urban planning students and scholars, government officials, developers, environmentalists, and citizens interested in understanding and shaping the American metropolis.
Author : Joyce Mendelsohn
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0231519435
The Lower East Side has been home to some of the city's most iconic restaurants, shopping venues, and architecture. The neighborhood has also welcomed generations of immigrants, from newly arrived Italians and Jews to today's Latino and Asian newcomers. This history has become somewhat obscured, however, as the Lower East Side can appear more hip than historic, with wealth and gentrification changing the character of the neighborhood. Chronicling these developments, along with the hidden gems that still speak of a vibrant immigrant identity, Joyce Mendelsohn provides a complete guide to the Lower East Side of then and now. After an extensive history that stretches back to Manhattan's first settlers, Mendelsohn offers 5 self-guided walking tours, including a new passage through the Bowery, that take the reader to more than 150 sites and highlight the dynamics of a community of contrasts: aged tenements nestled among luxury apartment towers abut historic churches and synagogues. With updated and revised maps, historical data, and an entirely new community to explore, Mendelsohn writes a brand-new chapter in an old New York story.
Author : Paul Kantor
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015037139451
Here is a book that makes sense of the L.A. riots, homelessness, tax giveaways, and the other big urban issues that are back in the national spotlight. In this streamlined and updated new edition of his classic book, The Dependent City, Paul Kantor now focuses on economic development and social welfare policies to reveal the key dilemmas of American urban politics. Returning to a political economy theme, Kantor explores how city governments have struggled to escape and accommodate the reality of their economic dependency in the policies that they've pursued.Revisiting cities across the nation, Kantor finds not only that they have become more dependent but also that the character of this dependency has changed and deepened. Exploring local regimes in the Frostbelt and Sunbelt and in suburbia, he finds that they frequently act more like captives of big business rather than as representatives of citizens. Local attempts to promote social justice increasingly run up against a wall of economic dependency created by federal policies and business power.This book signals how American cities can find ways of overcoming this dependency by working together with states and the federal government to promote healthy, democratic urban politics. The Dependent City Revisited is an accessible, provocative supplement for a wide variety of courses in urban studies and political economy as well as stimulating reading for anyone who is interested in understanding America's urban mosaic.
Author : P. Nicole King,Kate Drabinski,Joshua Clark Davis
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813594019
Nicknamed both “Mobtown” and “Charm City” and located on the border of the North and South, Baltimore is a city of contradictions. From media depictions in The Wire to the real-life trial of police officers for the murder of Freddie Gray, Baltimore has become a quintessential example of a struggling American city. Yet the truth about Baltimore is far more complicated—and more fascinating. To help untangle these apparent paradoxes, the editors of Baltimore Revisited have assembled a collection of over thirty experts from inside and outside academia. Together, they reveal that Baltimore has been ground zero for a slew of neoliberal policies, a place where inequality has increased as corporate interests have eagerly privatized public goods and services to maximize profits. But they also uncover how community members resist and reveal a long tradition of Baltimoreans who have fought for social justice. The essays in this collection take readers on a tour through the city’s diverse neighborhoods, from the Lumbee Indian community in East Baltimore to the crusade for environmental justice in South Baltimore. Baltimore Revisited examines the city’s past, reflects upon the city’s present, and envisions the city’s future.
Author : Greg Girard,Ian Lambot,Charles Goddard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Documentary photography
ISBN : 1873200137
A photographic record of Kowloon Walled City - a city within a city, now demolished and its 35,000 inhabitants rehoused. Containing interviews and commentary, the book tells the city's history, and how the self-sufficient community lived and worked in so little space in such apparent harmony.
Author : Richard V. Francaviglia
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781587290718
As an archetype for an entire class of places, Main Street has become one of America's most popular and idealized images. In Main Street Revisited, the first book to place the design of small downtowns in spatial and chronological context, Richard Francaviglia finds the sources of romanticized images of this archetype, including Walt Disney's Main Street USA, in towns as diverse as Marceline, Missouri, and Fort Collins, Colorado. Francaviglia interprets Main Street both as a real place and as an expression of collective assumptions, designs, and myths; his Main Streets are treasure troves of historic patterns. Using many historical and contemporary photographs and maps for his extensive fieldwork and research, he reveals a rich regional pattern of small-town development that serves as the basis for American community design. He underscores the significance of time in the development of Main Street's distinctive personality, focuses on the importance of space in the creation of place, and concentrates on popular images that have enshrined Main Street in the collective American consciousness.
Author : Paul R. Josephson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691044546
In 1958 construction began on Akademgorodok, a scientific utopian community modeled after Francis Bacon's vision of a "New Atlantis." The city, carved out of a Siberian forest 2,500 miles east of Moscow, was formed by Soviet scientists with Khrushchev's full support. They believed that their rational science, liberated from ideological and economic constraints, would help their country surpass the West in all fields. In a lively history of this city, a symbol of de-Stalinization, Paul Josephson offers the most complete analysis available of the reasons behind the successes and failures of Soviet science--from advances in nuclear physics to politically induced setbacks in research on recombinant DNA. Josephson presents case studies of high energy physics, genetics, computer science, environmentalism, and social sciences. He reveals that persistent ideological interference by the Communist Party, financial uncertainties, and pressures to do big science endemic in the USSR contributed to the failure of Akademgorodok to live up to its promise. Still, a kind of openness reigned that presaged the glasnost of Gorbachev's administration decades later. The openness was rooted in the geographical and psychological distance from Moscow and in the informal culture of exchange intended to foster the creative impulse. Akademgorodok is still an important research center, having exposed physics, biology, sociology, economics, and computer science to new investigations, distinct in pace and scope from those performed elsewhere in the Soviet scientific establishment.
Author : Edward C. Banfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017709150
This book attempts to make people think about the problems of the cities in the light of scholarly findings.