The Perfect City

Author : Joe Berridge
Publisher : Sutherland House Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1999439511

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Perfect City by Joe Berridge Pdf

"Cities, more than ever, are the engines of our economies and the ecosystems in which our lives play out. This means that questions about the perfectibility and sustainability of urban life are all the more urgent. Joe Berridge, one of the world's leading urban planners, takes us on an insider's tour of the world's largest and most diverse cities, from New York to London, Shanghai to Singapore, Toronto to Sydney, to examine what is working and not working, what is promising, and what needs to be fixed in the contemporary megalopolis. We meet the people, politicians, and thinkers at the cutting edge of global city making, and share their struggles and successes as they balance the competing priorities of growing their economies, upgrading the urban machinery that keeps a city humming, and protecting, serving, and delighting their citizens. We visit a succession of great urban innovations, stop by many of Joe's favorite restaurants, and leave with a startling view of the magical urban future that awaits us all. "--

Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1964-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262620014

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The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch Pdf

The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.

Author : Bob Thall,Peter Bacon Hales
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015033256390

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The Perfect City by Bob Thall,Peter Bacon Hales Pdf

In The Perfect City, photographer Bob Thall explores the changing downtown landscape of America's third-largest city - Chicago. In sixty-four duotone photographs, Thall provides a visual record of the changing architectural landscape of downtown Chicago between 1972 and 1991. Throughout, Thall's photographs stress the concept of change and the importance of architecture in shaping our notion of place. They examine the great public spaces, buildings, and streets that have always served at the heart and soul of city life, culture, and commerce. And they show how the city in which modern urban architecture began becomes a metaphor for urban change throughout America. In the essay accompanying the photographs Peter Bacon Hales examines the notion of the city as museum (especially for visitors from the suburbs and rural areas), highlights the successes and failures of urban renewal in downtown Chicago, and assesses the city's current character.

Author : James Gilbert
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226293189

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Perfect Cities by James Gilbert Pdf

IllustrationsPreface1. Itineraries2. Chicago: Two Profiles3. Approaches: Discovery from a Distance4. First City: Form and Fantasy5. Second City: Our Town6. Third City: The Evangelical Metropolis7. Exit: The Gray CityNotesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Robert Klanten,gestalten,Elli Stuhler,SPACE10
Publisher : Gestalten
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3899558626

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The Ideal City by Robert Klanten,gestalten,Elli Stuhler,SPACE10 Pdf

"Urban life is humankind’s biggest experiment to date, our cities are constantly evolving and adapting to climate and economy. The cities we have today are not necessarily the ones we need, but big and small innovation is rethinking visions of urbanization. Together with pioneering research and design lab SPACE10, we present future-orientated design which enhances quality of life and makes our urban spaces more vibrant. As technology and urban life edge ever closer, The Ideal City explores the ambitious actions and initiatives being brought to life across the globe to meet tomorrow’s demand in clever, forwarding-thinking ways. From pedestrian infrastructure to housing, the book uncovers what is being discussed at the forefront of urbanism through expert essays and profiles."--

Author : Lawrence Weschler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0226893901

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A Wanderer in the Perfect City by Lawrence Weschler Pdf

“There is something both marvelous and hilarious,” writes Lawrence Weschler, “in watching the humdrum suddenly take flight. This is, in part, a collection of such launchings.” Indeed, the eight essays collected in A Wanderer in the Perfect City do soar into the realm of passion as Weschler profiles people who “were just moseying down the street one day, minding their own business, when suddenly and almost spontaneously, they caught fire, they became obsessed, they became intensely focused and intensely alive.” With keen observations and graceful prose, Weschler carries us along as a teacher of rudimentary English from India decides that his destiny is to promote the paintings of an obscure American abstract expressionist; a gifted poker player invents a more exciting version of chess; an avant-garde Russian émigré conductor speaks Latin, exclusively, to his infant daughter; and Art Spiegelman composes Maus. But simple summaries can’t do these stories justice: like music, they derive their character from digressions and details, cadence and tone. And like the upwelling of passion Weschler’s characters feel, they are better experienced than explained. “Weschler seems so hungry for life that the rest of us become hungry for him . . . a magician, a performer, and a scholar. All in one.”—from the Foreword by Pico Iyer “Weschler’s essays are exquisitely written—so perfectly and unobtrusively organized that one can’t imagine telling them a better way.” —New York Times Book Review “Weschler is the owner of a large dose of novelistic vision, and a particularly poetic set of ears, but . . . as important an endowment as a novelist’s eye or a poet’s ear is still the journalistic nose which led him down the proverbial alley.”—National Post (Canada) “Weschler is a thoughtful observer and a superb storyteller.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune

Author : Geoff Manaugh
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780374710286

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A Burglar's Guide to the City by Geoff Manaugh Pdf

Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar's Guide to the City offers an unexpected blueprint to the criminal possibilities in the world all around us. You'll never see the city the same way again. At the core of A Burglar's Guide to the City is an unexpected and thrilling insight: how any building transforms when seen through the eyes of someone hoping to break into it. Studying architecture the way a burglar would, Geoff Manaugh takes readers through walls, down elevator shafts, into panic rooms, up to the buried vaults of banks, and out across the rooftops of an unsuspecting city. With the help of FBI Special Agents, reformed bank robbers, private security consultants, the L.A.P.D. Air Support Division, and architects past and present, the book dissects the built environment from both sides of the law. Whether picking padlocks or climbing the walls of high-rise apartments, finding gaps in a museum's surveillance routine or discussing home invasions in ancient Rome, A Burglar's Guide to the City has the tools, the tales, and the x-ray vision you need to see architecture as nothing more than an obstacle that can be outwitted and undercut. Full of real-life heists-both spectacular and absurd-A Burglar's Guide to the City ensures readers will never enter a bank again without imagining how to loot the vault or walk down the street without planning the perfect getaway.

Author : Geoffrey Parker
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1861892195

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Sovereign City by Geoffrey Parker Pdf

This title provides an examination of the rise, evolution and decline of the city-state, from ancient times to the present day.

Author : Edward Glaeser
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101475676

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Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser Pdf

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Book of the Year Award in 2011 “A masterpiece.” —Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics “Bursting with insights.” —The New York Times Book Review A pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly . . . or are they? In this revelatory book, Edward Glaeser, a leading urban economist, declares that cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in both cultural and economic terms) places to live. He travels through history and around the globe to reveal the hidden workings of cities and how they bring out the best in humankind. Using intrepid reportage, keen analysis, and cogent argument, Glaeser makes an urgent, eloquent case for the city's importance and splendor, offering inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest creation and our best hope for the future.

Author : Alex Krieger
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780674987999

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City on a Hill by Alex Krieger Pdf

From the pilgrims to Las Vegas, hippie communes to the smart city, utopianism has shaped American landscapes. The Puritan small town was the New Jerusalem. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of rational farm grids. Reformers tackled slums through crusades of civic architecture. To understand American space, Alex Krieger looks to the drama of utopian ideals.

Author : Joel Garreau
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307801944

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Edge City by Joel Garreau Pdf

First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City.

Author : Darran Anderson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226470306

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Imaginary Cities by Darran Anderson Pdf

How can we understand the infinite variety of cities? Darran Anderson seems to exhaust all possibilities in this work of creative nonfiction. Drawing inspiration from Marco Polo and Italo Calvino, Anderson shows that we have much to learn about ourselves by looking not only at the cities we have built, but also at the cities we have imagined. Anderson draws on literature (Gustav Meyrink, Franz Kafka, Jaroslav Hasek, and James Joyce), but he also looks at architectural writings and works by the likes of Bruno Taut and Walter Gropius, Medieval travel memoirs from the Middle East, mid-twentieth-century comic books, Star Trek, mythical lands such as Cockaigne, and the works of Claude Debussy. Anderson sees the visionary architecture dreamed up by architects, artists, philosophers, writers, and citizens as wedded to the egalitarian sense that cities are for everyone. He proves that we must not be locked into the structures that exclude ordinary citizens--that cities evolve and that we can have input. As he says: "If a city can be imagined into being, it can be re-imagined as well.”

Author : Laurence EACHARD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1698
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024517144

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The Roman History, from the Building of the City, to the Perfect Settlement of the Empire by Augustus Cæsar ... Fourth Edition, Carefully Revis'd, and ... Improv'd. (The Roman History, from the Settlement of the Empire ... to the Removal of the Imperial Seat by Constantine the Great ... Vol. II., Etc.). by Laurence EACHARD Pdf

Author : Mateusz Laszczkowski
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785332579

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'City of the Future' by Mateusz Laszczkowski Pdf

Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the city focuses on every-day practices, official ideologies and representations alongside the memories and dreams of the city’s longstanding residents and recent migrants. Critically examining a range of approaches to place and space in anthropology, geography and other disciplines, the book argues for an understanding of space as inextricably material-and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic – allowing for a plurality of incompatible pasts and futures materialized in spatial form.

Author : Laurence EACHARD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1697
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022978956

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The Roman History, from the Building of the City, to the Perfect Settlement of the Empire by Augustus Cæsar ... The Third Edition, Carefully Revis'd, Etc by Laurence EACHARD Pdf