The Urban Village

Author : Carolyn Whitzman
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0774858834

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Suburb, Slum, Urban Village by Carolyn Whitzman Pdf

Suburb, Slum, Urban Village examines the relationship between image and reality for one city neighbourhood – Toronto’s Parkdale. Carolyn Whitzman tracks Parkdale’s story across three eras: its early decades as a politically independent suburb of the industrial city; its half-century of ostensible decline toward becoming a slum; and its post-industrial period of transformation into a revitalized urban village. This book also shows how Parkdale’s image influenced planning policy for the neighbourhood. Whitzman demonstrates that image and reality have not always correlated for Parkdale. Parkdale’s changing image stood in stark contrast to its real social conditions. Nevertheless, this image became a self-fulfilling prophecy, as it contributed to increasingly discriminatory planning practices for Parkdale in the late twentieth century.

Author : Alberto Magnaghi
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1842775812

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The Urban Village by Alberto Magnaghi Pdf

A practical manifesto for how cities can respond to the pressures of globalization

Author : Peilin Li
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811589713

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Urban Village Renovation by Peilin Li Pdf

This book addresses the mystery and diversity of urbanization in China, especially with regard to urban villages. The “village in the city” is a unique social phenomenon in the process of Chinese urbanization. A local village society composed of deep-rooted social networks linked by blood, geography, folk beliefs, and folk customs is the outcome of a complex social process, which is accompanied by changes in property rights, restructuring of social networks, and conflicting benefits and values. The end of the village is the epitome of social transformation, and for China as a whole, this change may take a very long time to complete. This book includes various examples of and stories on urban villages, offering readers a wealth of insights into the phenomenon and its significance.

Author : Stephanie Grauman Wolf
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1980-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0691005907

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Urban Village Population, Community and Family Structure in Germantown Pensylvania 1683-1800 by Stephanie Grauman Wolf Pdf

Most studies of eighteenth-century community life in America have focused on New England, and in many respects the New England town has become a model for our understanding of communities throughout the United States during this period. In this study of a mid-Atlantic town, Stephanie Grauman Wolf describes a very different way of organizing society, indicating that the New England model may prove atypical. In addition, her analysis suggests the origins of twentieth-century social patterns in eighteenth-century life. Germantown, Pennsylvania, was chosen for study because it was a small urban center characterized by an ethnically and religiously mixed population of high mobility. The author uses quantitative analysis and sample case study to examine all aspects of the community. She finds that heterogeneity and mobility had a marked effect on urban development--on landholding, occupation, life style, and related areas; community organization for the control of government and church affairs; and the structure and demographic development of the: family. Her work represents an important advance not only in our understanding of eighteenth-century American society, but also in the ways in which we investigate it.

Author : Peter Neal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134504107

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Urban Villages and the Making of Communities by Peter Neal Pdf

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.

Author : David M. Sucher
Publisher : City Comforts Inc.
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780964268029

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City Comforts by David M. Sucher Pdf

Author : Tony Aldous
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0951902806

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Urban Villages by Tony Aldous Pdf

Author : Stefi Orazi
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781849947633

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Golden Lane Estate by Stefi Orazi Pdf

WINNER of the Architectural Book of the Year Award 2023, Monograph (Building) Category. The story of the building of an iconic mid-century housing estate, that is often seen as the model for housing architecture. Fully illustrated with commissioned photography of the interiors and exteriors, archive images and newly commissioned writing by leading architectural historians, plus interviews with people on the estate to capture their story. Following World War II, the population in the City of London plummeted, and with a duty to provide housing for those working in the area – such as nurses, policemen and doctors – the City Corporation commissioned architect Geoffry Powell in 1952 to design the Golden Lane Estate. Powell invited Christoph Bon and Jo Chamberlin to join him in developing a detailed design for the Estate. They would later become Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, working on world-renowned projects such as the Barbican Estate and the University of Leeds. Golden Lane Estate, now Grade II and Grade II* listed is often cited as being a model estate. With its high level of detailing, use of materials, colour, its humane scale, thoughtfulness of space, light, communal spaces, leisure facilities and integrated shops, it is exemplary, particularly for social housing. It was deemed as a success from the off and remains popular today, with many original tenants and/or their families still choosing to live there. What sets the estate apart is the sense of community and neighbourliness which is promoted by the architecture and design.

Author : Janet L. Abu-Lughod
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1557865256

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From Urban Village to East Village by Janet L. Abu-Lughod Pdf

This landmark study explores a new reality in today's inner cities - one that diverges radically from the dominant models of either the urban village, with its shared culture, or the disorganized zone of urban anomie. Growing numbers of inner city neighbourhoods now contain populations drawn from a multiplicity of ethnicities, subcultures, and classes. These groups may share physical space, but they pursue disparate ways of life and hold very different views of their neighbourhood's future. Such areas have become contested turf - arenas of heated political struggle. Nowhere has this struggle been so complexly joined than in the East Village on New York's Lower East Side. For over two decades, established and new immigrants, community activists, hippies, squatters, yuppies, developers, drug dealers, artists, the homeless, and the police have been battling for control of the district and its central meeting ground, Tompkins Square Park. Based on five years of research and participant observation, this book gives a vivid account of the contestants and their struggles in the battle for the Lower East Side. It is a battle which is likely to be replicated, perhaps less violently, in many other parts of urban America.

Author : Nick R. Smith
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452965444

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The End of the Village by Nick R. Smith Pdf

How China’s expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China has vastly expanded its urbanization processes in an effort to reduce the inequalities between urban and rural areas. Centered on the mountainous region of Chongqing, which serves as an experimental site for the country’s new urban development policies, The End of the Village analyzes the radical expansion of urbanization and its consequences for China’s villagers. It reveals a fundamental rewriting of the nation’s social contract, as villages that once organized rural life and guaranteed rural livelihoods are replaced by an increasingly urbanized landscape dominated by state institutions. Throughout this comprehensive study of China’s “urban–rural coordination” policy, Nick R. Smith traces the diminishing autonomy of the country’s rural populations and their subordination to larger urban networks and shared administrative structures. Outside Chongqing’s urban centers, competing forces are at work in reshaping the social, political, and spatial organization of its villages. While municipal planners and policy makers seek to extend state power structures beyond the boundaries of the city, village leaders and inhabitants try to maintain control over their communities’ uncertain futures through strategies such as collectivization, shareholding, real estate development, and migration. As China seeks to rectify the development crises of previous decades through rapid urban growth, such drastic transformations threaten to displace existing ways of life for more than 600 million residents. Offering an unprecedented look at the country’s contentious shift in urban planning and policy, The End of the Village exposes the precarious future of rural life in China and suggests a critical reappraisal of how we think about urbanization.

Author : Ran Liu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031616648

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Urban Village Redevelopment in Beijing, China by Ran Liu Pdf

Author : Da Wei David Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Charles C. Bohl,Dean Schwanke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015055811478

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Place Making by Charles C. Bohl,Dean Schwanke Pdf

Addressing one of the hottest trends in real estate the development of town centers and urban villages with mixed uses in pedestrian-friendly settings this book will help navigate through the unique design and development issues and reveal how to make all elements work together."

Author : Herbert J. Gans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : City dwellers
ISBN : UOM:39015006748563

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The Urban Villagers by Herbert J. Gans Pdf

Author : Stefan Al
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,6 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.