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The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Author : Jane Jacobs
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448180287
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Death and Life of Great American Cities written by Jane Jacobs and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on our urban environment. Inspired by the ideals of the Garden City or Le Corbusier's Radiant City, they have dreamt up ambitious projects based on self-contained neighbourhoods, super-blocks, rigid 'scientific' plans and endless acres of grass. Yet they seldom stop to look at what actually works on the ground. The real vitality of cities, argues Jacobs, lies in their diversity, architectural variety, teeming street life and human scale. It is only when we appreciate such fundamental realities that we can hope to create cities that are safe, interesting and economically viable, as well as places that people want to live in. 'Perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning... Jacobs has a powerful sense of narrative, a lively wit, a talent for surprise and the ability to touch the emotions as well as the mind' New York Times Book Review

Remaking China's Great Cities

Author : Samuel Y. Liang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317656113
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Remaking China's Great Cities written by Samuel Y. Liang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s rapid urbanization has restructured the great socialist cities Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou into mega cities that embrace global capitalism. This book focuses on the urban transformations of these three cities: Beijing is the nation’s political and cultural capital; Shanghai is the economic and financial powerhouse; and Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong Province and the regional center of south China. All are historical cities with rich imperial, colonial, and regional heritages, and all have been drastically transformed in the last six decades. This book examines the cities’ continuous urban legacies since 1949 in relation to state governance, economic reforms, and cultural production. By adopting local historical perspectives, it offers more nuanced accounts of the current urban change than the modernization/globalization paradigm and conceptualizes the change in the context of the cities’ socialist, colonial, and imperial legacies. Specifically, Samuel Y. Liang offers an overview of the urban planning and territorial expansion of the great cities since 1949; explores the production and consumption of urban housing, its spatial forms, media representations, and socio-political implications; and examines the state-led redevelopment of old urban cores and residential neighborhoods, and the urban conservation movement. Remaking China’s Great Cities will be of great interest to students and scholars working across a range of fields including Chinese studies, Chinese culture and society, urban studies and architecture.

Great Cities of the World

Author : W.A. Robson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135672407
Total Pages : 903 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Great Cities of the World written by W.A. Robson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The giant city of today is a unique phenomenon. Never before have such acute problems of government, the provision of essential services, planning, social life, and civilized living arisen from uncontrolled urbanization. In the West and in the East, in the more developed and in the less developed countries, in capitalist and communist states, the great metropolis represents a problem of the first importance which challenges the statesman, the official, the town planner, the political scientist, the sociologist and, above all, the intelligent citizen. The editor has here assembled an authoritative series of studies describing the growth, significance, government, politics adn planning of twenty-four great cities of the world. They show how these widely scattered cities faced essentially similar problems. Each study deals with the actual working of one city in the 1950s, how its elective adn executive bodies are organized, the kind of political forces which motivate their activities, the scope and character of the municipal services, how they are finiance. The cities dealt with include Bombay, Amsterdam, Moscow, Montreal, Stockholm, Rome, New York, London, Sydney and Tokyo. This book was first published in 1954.

Great American Diseases

Author : Ian R Tizard
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0323989268
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book Great American Diseases written by Ian R Tizard and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great American Diseases: Their Effects on the Course of North American History presents medical history as it pertains to the major infectious diseases of North America. The book is designed to provide an interesting and engaging introduction to microbiology, immunology and epidemiology. With the advent of COVID-19, this book will serve as a reference on the history of previous epidemics. The book presents pandemics in an easy-to-read volume and provides concise chapters on the history of a disease, progression of understanding on the pathogen (agent of the disease), and their social ramifications through the history of North America. 2023 PROSE Awards - Winner: Finalist: Reference Works – Biological and Life Sciences: Association of American Publishers Focuses on the major infectious and parasitic diseases of North America Provides historical and scientific information in an easy-to-digest volume Includes an introduction to the basic science of bacteriology, virology, immunology and epidemiology

The Fall of a Great American City

Author : Kevin Baker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1947951157
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (479 download)

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Download or read book The Fall of a Great American City written by Kevin Baker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fall of a Great American City is the story of what is happening today in New York City and in many other cities across America. It is about how the crisis of affluence is now driving out everything we love most about cities: small shops, decent restaurants, public space, street life, affordable apartments, responsive government, beauty, idiosyncrasy, each other. This is the story of how we came to lose so much—how the places we love most were turned over to land bankers, billionaires, the worst people in the world, and criminal landlords—and how we can - and must - begin to take them back. Co-published with Harper's Magazine, where an earlier version of this essay was originally published in 2018. As New York City approaches the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is in imminent danger of becoming something it has never been before: unremarkable. By unremarkable I don’t just mean periodic, slump-in-the-art-world, all-the-bands-suck, cinema-is-dead boring. I mean flatlining. No longer a significant cultural entity but a blank white screen of mere existence. I mean The-World’s-Largest-Gated-Community-with-a-few-cupcake-shops. For the first-time in our history, creative-youngpeople- will-no-longer want-to-come-here boring. Even, New-York-is-over boring. Or worse, New York is like everywhere else. Unremarkable. This is not some new phenomenon, but a cancer that’s been metastasizing on the city for decades now. Even worse, it’s not something that anyone wants, except the landlords, and not even all of them. What’s happening to New York now—what’s already happened to most of Manhattan, its core, and what is happening in every American city of means, Boston, Washington, San Francisco, Seattle, you name it—is something that almost nobody wants, but everybody gets. As such, the current urban crisis exemplifies our wider crisis: an America where we believe that we no longer have any ability to control the systems we live under.

The American City

Author : David Riesman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351486098
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The American City written by David Riesman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set of readings presents useful insights into urbanization and provides a fresh perspective on American cities and their inhabitants. Advancing the premise that it is not possible to understand how people live in cities without understanding how they think of them, the editor presents historical and contemporary materials that illustrate vividly the variety of ways in which Americans have viewed their cities, and urbanization in general.This book sheds light on what the city is and does by analyzing what its citizens think it should be and do. Its lively, readable selections include contributions from businessmen, ministers, journalists, reporters, city planners, and reformers, as well as sociologists. Strauss shows that Americans' views of cities have been profoundly influenced by their history of continental expansion, successive waves of immigration, massive industrialization and similar objective developments. He points out that certain perspectives or themes?relations of social classes within the city, of country to city, of small city to big city, of city to region, etc.?persist regardless of the social or historical perspective of the writer.The author's comprehensive introduction and his introductions to each section of the book delineate the thematic structure of the readings and guide the reader toward the insights and principles illuminated in the different sections. A fruitful contribution to courses in urban sociology, the book is a useful addition to the libraries of sociologists, political scientists, planners, and city officials who wish to understand more fully the contemporary urban milieu.

Economic Development USA.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Development USA. written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A New History of Modern Latin America

Author : Lawrence A. Clayton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520289021
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book A New History of Modern Latin America written by Lawrence A. Clayton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Revised and expanded third edition"--Cover.

Our common country ; mutual good will in America,

Author : Harding, Warren G.
Publisher : Best Books on
ISBN 13 : 162376582X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Our common country ; mutual good will in America, written by Harding, Warren G. and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1921-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Secret Cities of Old South America

Author : Harold T. Wilkins
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1605203211
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Secret Cities of Old South America written by Harold T. Wilkins and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monstrous beasts, lost worlds, vanished civilizations, Amazon warriors, even Atlantis and Noahs ark figure in this wondrous and rare book. Hard to find in print before now, this obscure 1952 work is an artifact itself, of the postwar fascination with all things mysterious, from flying saucers to ancient astronauts to the third eye. In this wildly entertainingand more than a little bit preposterousdocument, Wilkins takes us from mountain jungles to unexplored swamps on a search for the hidden secrets of old South America. Seekers after the arcane and fans of the paranormal will delight in this odd and extraordinary volume. British journalist and historian HAROLD T. WILKINS (18911960) is also the author of Mysteries of Ancient South America (1945) and Mysteries of Time and Space (1958).

Urban America in the Eighties

Author : United States. Panel on Policies and Prospects for Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Urban America in the Eighties written by United States. Panel on Policies and Prospects for Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science, and Art

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science, and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Medical Fortnightly

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Medical Fortnightly written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Special Subcommittee on Water Resources and Power
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Special Subcommittee on Water Resources and Power and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Local Government in Early America

Author : Brian P. Janiskee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442201347
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Local Government in Early America written by Brian P. Janiskee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Local Government in Early America, Brian P. Janiskee examines the origins of the "town hall meeting" and other iconic political institutions, whose origins lie in our colonial heritage. This work offers an overview of the structure of local politics in the colonial era, a detailed examination of the thoughts of key founders--such as John Adams and Thomas Jefferson--on local politics, and some thoughts on the continued role of local institutions as vital elements of the American political system.

Verbatim Report of the Annual Meeting of the American Street-Railway Association

Author : American Transit Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1046 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Verbatim Report of the Annual Meeting of the American Street-Railway Association written by American Transit Association and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of individual members in 1906-13.