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Author : Nanke Verloo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789463728942
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Seeing the City written by Nanke Verloo and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ash Amin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509515623
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Seeing Like a City written by Ash Amin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone. Within their density, size and sprawl can be found a world of symbols, bodies, buildings, technologies and infrastructures. It is the machine-like combination, interaction and confrontation of these different elements that make a city. Such a view locates urban outcomes and influences in the character of these networks, which together power urban life, allocating resources, shaping social opportunities, maintaining order and simply enabling life. More than the silent stage on which other powers perform, such networks represent the essence of the city. They also form an important political project, a politics of small interventions with large effects. The increasing evidence for an Anthropocene bears out the way in which humanity has stamped its footprint on the planet by constructing urban forms that act as systems for directing life in ways that create both immense power and immense constraint.
Author : Ben Green
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262352257
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book The Smart Enough City written by Ben Green and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be “smart enough,” using technology to promote democracy and equity. Smart cities, where technology is used to solve every problem, are hailed as futuristic urban utopias. We are promised that apps, algorithms, and artificial intelligence will relieve congestion, restore democracy, prevent crime, and improve public services. In The Smart Enough City, Ben Green warns against seeing the city only through the lens of technology; taking an exclusively technical view of urban life will lead to cities that appear smart but under the surface are rife with injustice and inequality. He proposes instead that cities strive to be “smart enough”: to embrace technology as a powerful tool when used in conjunction with other forms of social change—but not to value technology as an end in itself. In a technology-centric smart city, self-driving cars have the run of downtown and force out pedestrians, civic engagement is limited to requesting services through an app, police use algorithms to justify and perpetuate racist practices, and governments and private companies surveil public space to control behavior. Green describes smart city efforts gone wrong but also smart enough alternatives, attainable with the help of technology but not reducible to technology: a livable city, a democratic city, a just city, a responsible city, and an innovative city. By recognizing the complexity of urban life rather than merely seeing the city as something to optimize, these Smart Enough Cities successfully incorporate technology into a holistic vision of justice and equity.
Author : Sonja Dümpelmann
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300240708
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Seeing Trees written by Sonja Dümpelmann and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and beautifully illustrated volume that explains what street trees tell us about humanity’s changing relationship with nature and the city Today, cities around the globe are planting street trees to mitigate the effects of climate change. However, as landscape historian Sonja Dümpelmann explains, this is not a new phenomenon. In her eye-opening work, Dümpelmann shows how New York City and Berlin began systematically planting trees to improve the urban climate during the nineteenth century, presenting the history of the practice within its larger social, cultural, and political contexts. A unique integration of empirical research and theory, Dümpelmann’s richly illustrated work uncovers this important untold story. Street trees—variously regarded as sanitizers, nuisances, upholders of virtue, economic engines, and more—reflect the changing relationship between humans and nonhuman nature in urban environments. Offering valuable insights and frameworks, this authoritative volume will be an important resource for years to come.
Author : Charles R. Wolfe
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 161091774X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Seeing the Better City written by Charles R. Wolfe and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- About Island Press -- Subscribe -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Urban Observation Matters: Seeing the Better City -- 01. How to See City Basics and Universal Patterns -- 02. Observational Approaches -- 03. Seeing the City through Urban Diaries -- 04. Documenting Our Personal Cities -- 05. From Urban Diaries to Policies, Plans, and Politics -- Conclusion: What the Better City Can Be -- Notes -- Index -- IP Board of Directors
Author : Warren Magnusson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136671714
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Politics of Urbanism written by Warren Magnusson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To see like a city, rather than seeing like a state, is the key to understanding modern politics. In this book, Magnusson draws from theorists such as Weber, Wirth, Hayek, Jacobs, Sennett, and Foucault to articulate some of the ideas that we need to make sense of the city as a form of political order. Locally and globally, the city exists by virtue of complicated patterns of government and self-government, prompted by proximate diversity. A multiplicity of authorities in different registers is typical. Sovereignty, although often claimed, is infinitely deferred. What emerges by virtue of self-organization is not susceptible to control by any central authority, and so we are impelled to engage politically in a world that does not match our expectations of sovereignty. How then are we are to engage realistically and creatively? We have to begin from where we are if we are to understand the possibilities. Building on traditions of political and urban theory in order to advance a new interpretation of the role of cities/urbanism in contemporary political life, this work will be of great interest to scholars of political theory and urban theory, international relations theory and international relations.
Author : Gillian Rose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789463727037
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Seeing the City Digitally written by Gillian Rose and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores what's happening to ways of seeing urban spaces in the contemporary moment, when so many of the technologies through which cities are visualised are digital. Cities have always been pictured, in many media and for many different purposes. This edited collection explores how that picturing is changing in an era of digital visual culture. Analogue visual technologies like film cameras were understood as creating some sort of a trace of the real city. Digital visual technologies, in contrast, harvest and process digital data to create images that are constantly refreshed, modified and circulated. Each of the chapters in this volume examines a different example of this processual visuality is reconfiguring the spatial and temporal organisation of urban life.
Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262620017
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Image of the City written by Kevin Lynch and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1964-06-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Alan Mallach
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610917812
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Divided City written by Alan Mallach and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Divided City, urban practitioner and scholar Alan Mallach presents a detailed picture of what has happened over the past 15 to 20 years in industrial cities like Pittsburgh and Baltimore, as they have undergone unprecedented, unexpected revival. He spotlights these changes while placing them in their larger economic, social and political context. Most importantly, he explores the pervasive significance of race in American cities, and looks closely at the successes and failures of city governments, nonprofit entities, and citizens as they have tried to address the challenges of change. The Divided City concludes with strategies to foster greater equality and opportunity, firmly grounding them in the cities' economic and political realities.
Author : Sean Corcoran
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500545529
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)
Download or read book I See a City: Todd Webb's New York written by Sean Corcoran and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evocative portrait of New York City in the 1940s and 1950s by master documentary photographer Todd Webb. I See a City: Todd Webb’s New York focuses on the work photographer Todd Webb produced in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Webb photographed the city day and night, in all seasons, and in all weather. Buildings, signage, vehicles, the passing throngs, isolated figures, curious eccentrics—from the Brooklyn Bridge to Harlem, this book is a rich portrait of the everyday life and architecture of New York. Webb’s work is focused and layered with light and shadow, capturing the soul of this city shaped by the friction and frisson of humanity. A native of Detroit, Webb studied photography in the 1930s under the guidance of Ansel Adams at the Detroit Camera Club, served as a navy photographer during World War II, and went on to become a successful postwar photographer. His work is in many museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington. This book, now available in a compact edition, helps contemporary audiences get to know a forgotten American artist and an ever-changing city.
Author : Michelle Sinclair Colman
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 152471500X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book You See, I See: In the City written by Michelle Sinclair Colman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: See the city through the eyes of a child and parent in this heartwarming exploration of a day spent together. You see a bustling city, I see adventure ahead! What will you see in the city? It depends on who you ask! As a parent and child visit the newspaper stand, the store, the park, and more, each points out what they can see . . . and their perspectives might surprise you! With spare, rhyming text and a bold limited palette, this simple board book captures the fun and tenderness of exploring new places together, and the joy of seeing the world through a child's eyes. Don't miss the first book in this series, You See, I See: On the Farm!
Author : Tobias Armborst
Publisher : Actarbirkhauser
ISBN 13 : 9781940291345
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (913 download)
Download or read book The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion written by Tobias Armborst and published by Actarbirkhauser. This book was released on 2017 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who gets to be where? The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion examines some of the policies, practices, and physical artifacts that have been used by planners, policymakers, developers, real estate brokers, community activists, and other urban actors in the United States to draw, erase, or redraw the lines that divide. The Arsenal inventories these weapons of exclusion and inclusion, describes how they have been used, and speculates about how they might be deployed (or retired) for the sake of more open cities in which more people have access to more places. With contributions from over fifty architects, planners, geographers, historians, and journalists, The Arsenal offers a wide-ranging view of the forces that shape our cities. by Interboro (Tobias Armborst, Daniel D'Oca, Georgeen Theodore)
Author : Tim Hollis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614236380
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book See Rock City written by Tim Hollis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around two hundred million years ago, geological forces produced an expansive grove of rocky caverns and outcroppings atop Lookout Mountain. It was not until the twentieth century, however, that this awe-inspiring citadel evolved into a nationally recognized tourist attraction when Garnet Carter and his wife, Frieda, developed the natural marvel into the Rock City Gardens we know today, an enchanted tribute to fairytales and a breathtaking homage to nature. Join Rock City expert Tim Hollis as he guides you through the origins of the site's most fascinating spots, including Fairyland Caverns, See Seven States and Lover's Leap. Also learn the story behind the world-famous 'See Rock City' marketing campaign, as well as the steep challenges the landmark has faced in an often volatile tourism industry. Perhaps the only aspect of Rock City more enchanting than its physical beauty is the fairytale story that surrounds it.
Author : Fodor's
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0876371365
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (763 download)
Download or read book Fodor's See It New York City written by Fodor's and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to visiting New York, providing information about the city, its geography, and people, reviewing the history of the Big Apple, and including photographs and descriptions of attractions, walks, restaurants, hotels, and shops in lower Manhattan, downtown and Chelsea, midtown, and the Central Park area.
Author : Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
ISBN 13 : 1400004985
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fodor's See It New York City, 4th Edition written by Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fodor's see it New Zealand is perfect for travelers who want to understand New Zealand history and culture before they arrive, and experience the country like a native while they're there. Overflowing with brilliant color photography, this is the only illustrated guide that provides the practical information that you need while traveling--complete restaurant and hotel reviews with exact prices for lodging and dining (not ranges), plus time-saving tips and how to avoid crowds, exact admission prices to key sights, great photo stops, and special notes on kid-friendly attractions throughout. Hotels Our detailed reviews represent the best accommodations in New Zealand, in all price ranges. From five-star luxury hotels to low-budget lodges, we'll tell you what to expect in terms of price and quality through extensive coverage of hotels and their surrounding neighborhoods, exact prices of double-occupancy rooms (including breakfast), plus pictures of hotel facilities and guestrooms. Restaurants If you want to experience the best that Britain has to offer, pay particular attention to our outstanding restaurant coverage that will help you choose from the thousands of local eateries that cater to every budget and dining experience. From affordable meals at local pubs to decadent, romantic, candlelit dinners--you'll find it in see it New Zealand. Each review covers house signature dishes, ambiance, actual prices for a two-course lunch and a three-course dinner (for two people), hours of operation, and what transportation will get you there. The Sights Whether you want to brave the original bungee jump, cruise through a remote, mind-bendingly beautiful fjord, sip your way through the sunniest wine region, or settle down at a lodge within sight of volcanoes, see it New Zealand will take you there. Accessibly written to help you navigate throughout the country without missing a thing, each attraction includes exact admission prices, what galleries and museums not to miss, and where to stop for quick bites and refreshing drinks along the way. Sights are also rated for their value, walkability, historic and cultural interest, plus we suggest fantastic photo stops and entertaining and age-appropriate kid-friendly attractions throughout the book. What to Do? Our shopping walks will lead you to cutting-edge fashions to fit all budgets, from hip streetwear to expensive fashions for your feet. But, New Zealand has much more to offer than just sight-seeing and shopping. Fodor's see it New Zealand provides insider information on classical, theatrical, and cinematic performances, New Zealand's music scene, nightlife, spectator and activity sports, and festivals and events. Atlas and Maps Detailed neighborhood maps are incorporated throughout the book to help you navigate on historic walks, shopping tours, or to find a restaurant. Plus, a 16-page atlas details each road and path with highlights of important landmarks, parks, metro stations, and car parking areas. Fodor's see it(TM) A brand-new series that shows you before you go, guides you while you're there, and makes the perfect keepsake on your return.
Author : Amberle L. Husbands
Publisher : Amberle L. Husbands
ISBN 13 : 0615523315
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (155 download)
Download or read book See Eads City written by Amberle L. Husbands and published by Amberle L. Husbands. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : IBP, Inc.
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1514528169
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Vatican City (Holy See): Doing Business, Investing in Vatican City Guide Volume 1 Strategic, Practical Information, Regulations, Contacts written by IBP, Inc. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-02-09 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vatican City (Holy See): Doing Business and Investing in ... Guide Volume 1 Strategic, Practical Information, Regulations, Contacts
