The French New Towns

Author : James M. Rubenstein
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421431857

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The French New Towns by James M. Rubenstein Pdf

Originally published in 1978. At the time this book was published, new towns were cropping up as a matter of public policy in "advanced industrial countries," yet the United States abandoned this project and deemed new towns "inappropriate and impractical for the American situation." The purpose of this book is to inform planners and policy makers around the world about French new towns. It analyzes what French new towns tried to accomplish; the administrative, financial, and political reforms needed to secure implementation of the program; and the achievements of the new towns. The author's evaluation of French new towns is undertaken with an eye to international applicability. In the United States, new towns have been proposed as a means for integrating low-income families into suburbs that are otherwise closed to them. The French experience demonstrates that socially heterogeneous new communities can be developed, even within the framework of a market system, if a sufficiently high priority is placed on the effort.

Author : Jack A. Underhill,Paul Brace,James M. Rubenstein,United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of International Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015006776382

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French National Urban Policy and the Paris Region New Towns by Jack A. Underhill,Paul Brace,James M. Rubenstein,United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of International Affairs Pdf

Author : David Fée,Bob Colenutt,Sabine Coady Schäbitz
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839094323

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Lessons from the British and French New Towns by David Fée,Bob Colenutt,Sabine Coady Schäbitz Pdf

This book explores the evolution of New Towns in France and the UK in a number of areas (governance, planning and heritage) and assess whether their legacy can inspire current planned settlements.

Author : Jack A. Underhill,Paul Brace,James M. Rubenstein,United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of International Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015002618224

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French National Urban Policy and the Paris Region New Towns by Jack A. Underhill,Paul Brace,James M. Rubenstein,United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of International Affairs Pdf

Author : Jack A. Underhill,Paul Brace,James M. Rubenstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : New towns
ISBN : LCCN:80602925

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French National Urban Policy and the Paris Region New Towns by Jack A. Underhill,Paul Brace,James M. Rubenstein Pdf

Author : Kenny Cupers
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781452941066

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The Social Project by Kenny Cupers Pdf

Winner of the 2015 Abbott Lowell Cummings prize from the Vernacular Architecture Forum Winner of the 2015 Sprio Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians Winner of the 2016 International Planning History Society Book Prize for European Planning History Honorable Mention: 2016 Wylie Prize in French Studies In the three decades following World War II, the French government engaged in one of the twentieth century’s greatest social and architectural experiments: transforming a mostly rural country into a modernized urban nation. Through the state-sanctioned construction of mass housing and development of towns on the outskirts of existing cities, a new world materialized where sixty years ago little more than cabbage and cottages existed. Known as the banlieue, the suburban landscapes that make up much of contemporary France are near-opposites of the historic cities they surround. Although these postwar environments of towers, slabs, and megastructures are often seen as a single utopian blueprint gone awry, Kenny Cupers demonstrates that their construction was instead driven by the intense aspirations and anxieties of a broad range of people. Narrating the complex interactions between architects, planners, policy makers, inhabitants, and social scientists, he shows how postwar dwelling was caught between the purview of the welfare state and the rise of mass consumerism. The Social Project unearths three decades of architectural and social experiments centered on the dwelling environment as it became an object of modernization, an everyday site of citizen participation, and a domain of social scientific expertise. Beyond state intervention, it was this new regime of knowledge production that made postwar modernism mainstream. The first comprehensive history of these wide-ranging urban projects, this book reveals how housing in postwar France shaped both contemporary urbanity and modern architecture.

Author : David Miller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781487554583

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Solved by David Miller Pdf

If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly. Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Oslo, Shenzhen, and Sydney, this book is a summons to every city to make small but significant changes that can drastically reduce our carbon footprint. We cannot wait for national governments to agree on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and manage the average temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees. In Solved, David Miller argues that cities are taking action on climate change because they can – and because they must. The updated paperback edition of Solved: How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis demonstrates that the initiatives cities have taken to control the climate crisis can make a real difference in reducing global emissions if implemented worldwide. By chronicling the stories of how cities have taken action to meet and exceed emissions targets laid out in the Paris Agreement, Miller empowers readers to fix the climate crisis. As much a “how to” guide for policymakers as a work for concerned citizens, Solved aims to inspire hope through its clear and factual analysis of what can be done – now, today – to mitigate our harmful emissions and pave the way to a 1.5-degree world.

Author : Ian Scargill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 113848413X

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Urban France by Ian Scargill Pdf

Originally published in 1983, Urban France examines the rapid growth in French cities between 1950-1980, and the serious consequences that have followed this rapid growth. This volume examines the nature of this urban explosion and the efforts of planners and others to find solutions to the resultant problems of the post-war period. The book addresses the debates surrounding the urban system, urban planning, housing and land use, retailing, and the inception of new towns.

Author : Laurence Armand French
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761863847

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Frog Town by Laurence Armand French Pdf

Frog Towndescribes in detail a French Canadian parish that was unique due to the high density of both Acadian and Quebecois settlers that were situated in a Yankee stronghold of Puritan stock. This demography provided for a volatile history that accentuated the inter-ethnic/sectarian conflicts of the time. In this book, Laurence Armand French discusses the work, language, and social activities of the working-class French Canadians during the changing times that transformed them from French Canadians to Franco Americans. French also articulates the current double-standard of justice within New Hampshire with details of actual cases, presented alongside their circumstances and judicial outcomes, to offer a thorough depiction of the community of Frog Town.

Author : Dianne Guenin-Lelle
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496804877

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The Story of French New Orleans by Dianne Guenin-Lelle Pdf

What is it about the city of New Orleans? History, location, and culture continue to link it to France while distancing it culturally and symbolically from the United States. This book explores the traces of French language, history, and artistic expression that have been present there over the last three hundred years. This volume focuses on the French, Spanish, and American colonial periods to understand the imprint that French socio-cultural dynamic left on the Crescent City. The migration of Acadians to New Orleans at the time the city became a Spanish dominion and the arrival of Haitian refugees when the city became an American territory oddly reinforced its Francophone identity. However, in the process of establishing itself as an urban space in the Antebellum South, the culture of New Orleans became a liability for New Orleans elite after the Louisiana Purchase. New Orleans and the Caribbean share numerous historical, cultural, and linguistic connections. The book analyzes these connections and the shared process of creolization occurring in New Orleans and throughout the Caribbean Basin. It suggests "French" New Orleans might be understood as a trope for unscripted "original" Creole social and cultural elements. Since being Creole came to connote African descent, the study suggests that an association with France in the minds of whites allowed for a less racially-bound and contested social order within the United States.

Author : Robert Cervero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Commuting
ISBN : UOM:39015075159783

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Transit-supportive Development in the United States by Robert Cervero Pdf

Author : OECD,European Commission
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264376663

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OECD Urban Studies Cities in the World A New Perspective on Urbanisation by OECD,European Commission Pdf

Cities are not only home to around half of the global population but also major centers of economic activity and innovation. Yet, so far there has been no consensus of what a city really is. Substantial differences in the way cities, metropolitan, urban, and rural areas are defined across countries hinder robust international comparisons and an accurate monitoring of SDGs. The report Cities in the World: A New Perspective on Urbanisation addresses this void and provides new insights on urbanisation by applying for the first time two new definitions of human settlements to the entire globe: the Degree of Urbanisation and the Functional Urban Area.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1328 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015080309639

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The Builder by Anonim Pdf

Author : Johan Andersson,Lawrence Webb
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850995

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Global Cinematic Cities by Johan Andersson,Lawrence Webb Pdf

Cinema and audiovisual media are integral to the culture, economy and social experience of the contemporary global city. But how has the relationship between cinema and the urban environment evolved in the era of digital technology, new media and globalization? And what are the critical tools and concepts with which we can grasp this vital interconnection between space and screen, viewer and built environment? Engaging with a rapidly transforming urban world, the contributions to this collection rethink the 'cinematic city' at a global scale. By presenting a global constellation of screen cities within one volume, the book encourages juxtapositions and comparisons across the North and South to capture the global city and its dynamics of exchange, hybridity, and circulation. The contributions examine film and screen cultures in a range of locations spanning five continents: Antibes, Beijing, Buenos Aires, Busan, Cairo, Caracas, Copenhagen, Jakarta, Kolkata, Lagos, Los Angeles, Malmö, Manila, Mumbai, Nairobi, Paris, Seoul, Sète, and Shanghai. The chapters address topics that range across the contemporary film and media landscape, from popular cinema, art cinema, and film festivals to serial television, public screens, multimedia installations, and video art. Contributors: Chris Berry, Yomi Braester, Jinhee Choi, Pei-Sze Chow, Thomas Elsaesser, Malini Guha, Jonathan Haynes, Will Higbee, Igor Krstic, Christian B. Long, Joanna Page, Lawrence Webb.

Author : Jean François Augoyard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816645909

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Step by Step by Jean François Augoyard Pdf

The street riots that swept through France in the fall of 2005 focused worldwide attention on the plight of the country's immigrants and their living conditions in the suburbs many of them call home. These high-density neighborhoods were constructed according to the principles of functionalist urbanism that were ascendant in the 1960s. Then, as now, the disparities between the planners' utopian visions and the experiences of the inhabitants raised concerns, generating a number of sociological studies of the "new towns." One of the most sophisticated and significant of these critiques is Jean-François Augoyard's Step by Step, which was originally published in France in 1979 and famously influenced Michel de Certeau's analysis of everyday life. Its examination of social life in the rationally planned suburb remains as cogent and timely as ever. Step by Step is based on in-depth interviews Augoyard conducted with the inhabitants of l'Arlequin, a new town on the outskirts of Grenoble. A resident of l'Arlequin himself, Augoyard sought to understand how his neighbors used its passages, streets, and parks. He begins with a detailed investigation of the inhabitants' daily walks before going on to consider how the built environment is personalized through place-names and shared memories, the ways in which sensory impressions define the atmosphere of a place and how, through individual and collective imagination, residents transformed l'Arlequin from a concept into a lived space. In closely scrutinizing everyday life in l'Arlequin, Step by Step draws a fascinating portrait of the richness of social life in the new towns and sheds light on the current living conditions of France's immigrants. Jean-François Augoyard is professor of philosophy and musicology and doctor of urban studies at the Center for Research on Sonorous Space and the Urban Environment at the School of Architecture of Grenoble. David Ames Curtis is a translator, editor, writer, and citizen activist. Françoise Choay is professor emeritus in the history and theory of architecture at the University of Paris VIII and Cornell University and the author of numerous books and essays.