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Author : Jerome Krase
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780819122841
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Self and Community in the City written by Jerome Krase and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Rechy
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
ISBN 13 : 178283785X
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book City of Night written by John Rechy and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bold and inventive in style, City of Night is the groundbreaking 1960s novel about male prostitution. Rechy is unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling 'youngman' and his search for self-knowledge among the other denizens of his neon-lit world. As the narrator moves from Texas to Times Square and then on to the French Quarter of New Orleans, Rechy delivers a portrait of the edges of America that has lost none of its power. On his travels, the nameless narrator meets a collection of unforgettable characters, from vice cops to guilt-ridden married men eaten up by desire, to Lance O'Hara, once Hollywood's biggest star. Rechy describes this world with candour and understanding in a prose that is highly personal and vividly descriptive.
Author : Kian Goh
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026254427X
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Just Urban Design written by Kian Goh and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by urban planners, sociologists, anthropologists, architects, and landscape architects on the role and scope of urban design in creating more just and inclusive cities. Scholars who write about justice and the city rarely consider the practices and processes of urban design, while discourses on urban design often neglect concerns about justice. The editors of Just Urban Design take the position that urban design interventions have direct and important implications for justice in the city. The contributions in this volume contextualize the state of knowledge about urban design for justice, stress inclusivity as the key to justice in the city, affirm community participation and organizing as cornerstones of greater equity, and assert that a just urban design must center and privilege our most marginalized individuals and communities. Approaching spatial and social justice in the city through the lens of urban design, the contributors explore the possibility of envisioning and delivering social, spatial, and environmental justice in cities through urban design and the material reality of built environment interventions. The editors’ combined expertise includes urban politics and climate change, public space, mobility justice, community development, housing, and informality, and the contributors include researchers and practitioners from urban planning, sociology, anthropology, architecture, and landscape architecture. Contributors: Rachel Berney, Rebecca Choi, Teddy Cruz, Diane E. Davis, Fonna Forman, Christopher Giamarino, Kian Goh, Alison B. Hirsch, Jeffrey Hou, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Setha Low, Matthew Jordan Miller, Vinit Mukhija, Chelina Odbert, Francesca Piazzoni, and Michael Rios.
Author : Andrew Heben
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692248058
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Tent City Urbanism written by Andrew Heben and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tent City Urbanism explores the intersection of the "tiny house movement" and tent cities organized by the homeless to present an accessible and sustainable housing paradigm that can improve the quality of life for everyone. While tent cities tend to evoke either sympathy or disgust, the author finds such informal settlements actually address many of the shortfalls of more formal responses to homelessness. Tent cities often exemplify self-management, direct democracy, tolerance, mutual aid, and resourceful strategies for living with less. This book presents a vision for how cities can constructively build upon these positive dynamics rather than continuing to seek evictions and pay the high costs of policing homelessness. The tiny house village provides a path forward to transitional and affordable housing within the grasp of a local community. It offers a bottom-up approach to the provision of shelter that is economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable-both for the individual and the city. The concept was first pioneered by Portland's Dignity Village, and has since been re-imagined by Eugene's Opportunity Village and Olympia's Quixote Village. Now this innovative model has emerged from the Northwest to inspire projects in Madison, Austin, and Ithaca, and is being pursued by advocacy groups throughout the country. Along with documenting and articulating the roots of this budding movement, the book provides a practical guide to help catalyze new and existing initiatives in other areas.
Author : Vicente Guallart
Publisher : Actar
ISBN 13 : 9781940291031
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Self-sufficient City written by Vicente Guallart and published by Actar. This book was released on 2014 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ING_17 Flap copy
Author : Michelle Cady
Publisher : Michelle Cady
ISBN 13 : 9781732194618
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (946 download)
Download or read book Self-Care in the City: 100 Ways to Optimize Your Nutrition, Fitness & Wellness in an Urban Environment written by Michelle Cady and published by Michelle Cady. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there's one thing Carrie Bradshaw didn't master in her beautiful Manhattan life it's self-care. Like most of us, she rushed around from thing to thing, drank a few too many cocktails, smoked cigarettes, and dealt with the stress that came along with a career she loved and social calendar she loved more. Little did she know that a few simple changes to her daily habits could drastically improve everything from her mood to her sleep to her ability to manage ups and downs of life - from lost jobs to lost relationships. Thanks to Self-Care in the City, the busiest of urban people now have their very own handbook for learning how to bring a healthy dose of self-care into their busy, fast-paced lives. No longer will you need to play the guessing-game of . . . how to squeeze a workout into a busy week or what dish to choose at a business dinner or how to relieve stress without reaching for a glass of wine. Instead you have over 100 ways to address the common dilemmas of their everyday life, including: - Way #1 Rethink Brunch: How to approach a fabulous weekend meal without overdoing it. - Way #7 Tier Your Seamless: Method for making healthy-ish options your go-to when you're exhausted. - Way #16 Drinking on Dates: Tips to navigate every blind date without drowning yourself in cocktails. - Way #66 Quick Workouts for Biz Trips: How to keep up your workout routine no matter where you travel. - Way #81 Noise at Night: Solutions for reducing stimulation and getting a great night's sleep. - Way #82 Surviving the Subway: Insider secrets to stress-less on your daily commute. No matter what you need help navigating, there's a tip or resource within immediate reach. As you begin embracing these practices, you'll find that you have the power rise above the routines that diminish your beauty and focus, and fall in love with the wellness strategies that will not only make you feel unstoppable, but will also give you an edge. NUTRITION Efficient ways to upgrade your grocery shopping, order healthier takeout, sneak in more veggies, navigate social functions, order like a boss and fuel your continued success at home, at work and when you're on-the-go. FITNESS Smart strategies to optimize your workouts, join the right gym, pick boutique fitness studios, exercise on business trips, fit in more activity, lose body fat and elevate your body to the next level. WELLNESS You're doing it all right - eating well and working out - and you're still not seeing results. This book empowers you to improve your sleep, manage your stress, create your own silence, and personalize your self-care, while still having a fabulous social life! Why I Wrote It: Self-Care in the City is a reflection of the health and wellness tricks I was able to discover during my experience living in New York City as a finance executive. That blended together with my professional expertise, work with countless clients and education in nutrition and exercise science and stress management makes this a book that every busy urban person needs on their night stand or nestled into their work bag. About the Author: Michelle Cady is a former finance executive turned wellness author and highly sought after integrative nutrition health coach. Michelle's personal experience of recovering from adrenal fatigue and burnout influences her coaching and focus on nutrition, fitness, and stress management. Michelle's writing has been featured in mindbodygreen, Well+Good, Elite Daily, Women's Health, Redbook and Thrive Global, among others. She is the Founder of the wellness platform, FitVista, and Self-Care in the City is Michelle's first book. Michelle graduated from Middlebury College in 2008 with a BA in English and currently lives in New York City. You can find more about Michelle's story, blog and resources over at www.FitVista.com.
Author : Bernice Braid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781945001130
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Place, Self, Community written by Bernice Braid and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Luis Hernández Navarro
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469654547
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Self-Defense in Mexico written by Luis Hernández Navarro and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mexico and across other parts of Latin America local Indigenous peoples have built community policing groups as a means of protection where the state has limited control over, and even complicity in, crime and violence. Luis Hernandez Navarro, a leading Mexican journalist, offers a riveting investigation of these armed self-defense groups that sprang up around the time of the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. Available in English for the first time, the book spotlights the intense precarity of everyday life in parts of Mexico. Hernandez Navarro shows how the self-defense response, which now includes wealthier rancher and farmer groups, is being transformed by Mexico's expanding role in the multibillion dollar global drug trade, by foreign corporations' extraction of raw minerals in traditionally Indigenous lands, and by the resulting social changes in local communities. But as Hernandez Navarro acknowledges, self-defense is highly controversial. Community policing may provide citizens with increased agency, but for government officials it can be a dangerous threat to the status quo. Leftists and liberals are wary of how the groups may be linked to paramilitary forces and vulnerable to manipulation by drug traffickers and the government alike. This book answers the urgent call to understand the dangerous complexities of government failures and popular solutions.
Author : Anne Marie Wozniak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Central City Community Center written by Anne Marie Wozniak and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jay Walljasper
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1550923420
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Great Neighborhood Book written by Jay Walljasper and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abandoned lots and litter-strewn pathways, or rows of green beans and pockets of wildflowers? Graffiti-marked walls and desolate bus stops, or shady refuges and comfortable seating? What transforms a dingy, inhospitable area into a dynamic gathering place? How do individuals take back their neighborhood? Neighborhoods decline when the people who live there lose their connection and no longer feel part of their community. Recapturing that sense of belonging and pride of place can be as simple as planting a civic garden or placing some benches in a park. The Great Neighborhood Book explains how most struggling communities can be revived, not by vast infusions of cash, not by government, but by the people who live there. The author addresses such challenges as traffic control, crime, comfort and safety, and developing economic vitality. Using a technique called "placemaking"-- the process of transforming public space -- this exciting guide offers inspiring real-life examples that show the magic that happens when individuals take small steps, and motivate others to make change. This book will motivate not only neighborhood activists and concerned citizens but also urban planners, developers and policy-makers.
Author : Lucas Cappelli
Publisher : Actar-D
ISBN 13 : 9788492861330
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Self Sufficient City written by Lucas Cappelli and published by Actar-D. This book was released on 2010 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ING_08 Review quote
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ghent Urban Studies Team
Publisher : 010 Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789064503559
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Urban Condition written by Ghent Urban Studies Team and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the Western city at the end of the twentieth century look like? How did the modern metropolis of congestion and density turn into a posturban or even postsuburban cityscape? What are edge cities and technoburbs? How has the social composition of cities changed in the postwar era? What do gated communities tell us about social fragmentation? Is public space in the contemporary city being privatized and militarized? How can the urban self still be defined? What role does consumer aestheticism have to play in this? These and many more questions are addressed by this uniquely conceived multidisciplinary study. The Urban Condition seeks to interfere in current debates over the future and interpretation of our urban landscapes by reuniting studies of the city as a physical and material phenomenon and as a cultural and mental (arte)fact. The Ghent Urban Studies Team responsible for the writing and editing of this volume is directed by Kristiaan Versluys and Dirk De Meyer at the University of Ghent, Belgium. It is an interdisciplinary research team of young academics that further consists of Kristiaan Borret, Bart Eeckhout, Steven Jacobs, and Bart Keunen. The collective expertise of GUST ranges from architectural theory, urban planning, and art history to philosophy, literary criticism and cultural theory.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Gospel of the Kingdom written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Moulaert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136953221
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)
Download or read book Can Neighbourhoods Save the City? written by Frank Moulaert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, neighbourhoods been pivotal sites of social, economic and political exclusion processes, and civil society initiatives, attempting bottom-up strategies of re-development and regeneration. In many cases these efforts resulted in the creation of socially innovative organizations, seeking to satisfy the basic human needs of deprived population groups, to increase their political capabilities and to improve social interaction both internally and between the local communities, the wider urban society and political world. SINGOCOM - Social INnovation GOvernance and COMmunity building – is the acronym of the EU-funded project on which this book is based. Sixteen case studies of socially-innovative initiatives at the neighbourhood level were carried out in nine European cities, of which ten are analysed in depth and presented here. The book compares these efforts and their results, and shows how grass-roots initiatives, alternative local movements and self-organizing urban collectives are reshaping the urban scene in dynamic, creative, innovative and empowering ways. It argues that such grass-roots initiatives are vital for generating a socially cohesive urban condition that exists alongside the official state-organized forms of urban governance. The book is thus a major contribution to socio-political literature, as it seeks to overcome the duality between community-development studies and strategies, and the solidarity-based making of a diverse society based upon the recognising and maintaining of citizenship rights. It will be of particular interest to both students and researchers in the fields of urban studies, social geography and political science.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Horace Edward Deming
Publisher : New York : Putnam
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Government of American Cities written by Horace Edward Deming and published by New York : Putnam. This book was released on 1909 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
