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The City as Action

Author : Narendar Pani
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000551121
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The City as Action written by Narendar Pani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In constructing the urban as a set of interconnected actions, this book presents a less travelled route to understanding the city. It leads to a fresh perspective on several issues central to urban theory, including the uniqueness of a city alongside practices it shares with other urban places. This book presents an innovative theoretical contribution to the field of urban studies, bridging the gap between western centric scholarship and perspectives from the global South. It offers conceptually rich insights, combining notions of cities as organisms, and references to postcolonial urban studies, with insights around aspirations, capabilities, agency, and social identity. It develops concepts, like the Proximity Principle, that help explain the experience of a city. This conceptualization of the city as a process should interest all who are sensitive to cities, whether they study them in academia or simply develop close associations with specific urban places.

The City as Action

Author : Narendar Pani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032052687
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book The City as Action written by Narendar Pani and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In constructing the urban as a set of interconnected actions, this book presents a less travelled route to understanding the city. It leads to a fresh perspective on several issues central to urban theory, including the uniqueness of a city alongside practices it shares with other urban places. This book presents an innovative theoretical contribution to the field of urban studies, bridging the gap between western centric scholarship and perspectives from the global South. It offers conceptually rich insights, combining notions of cities as organisms, and references to postcolonial urban studies, with insights around aspirations, capabilities, agency and social identity. It develops concepts, like the proximity principle, that help explain the experience of a city. This conceptualization of the city as a process should interest all who are sensitive to cities, whether they study them in academia or simply develop close associations with specific urban places"--

Spatial Practices

Author : Melanie Dodd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351140027
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Spatial Practices written by Melanie Dodd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores ‘spatial practices’, a loose and expandable set of approaches that embrace the political and the activist, the performative and the curatorial, the architectural and the urban. Acting upon and engaging with the public realm, the field of spatial practices allows people to reconnect with their own sense of agency through engagement in space and place, exploring and prototyping alternative futures in the here and now. The 24 chapters contain essays, visual essays and interviews, featuring contributions from an international set of experimental practitioners including Jeanne van Heeswijk (Netherlands), Teddy Cruz (Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, San Diego), Hector (USA), The Decorators (London) and OOZE (Netherlands). Beautifully designed with full colour illustrations, Spatial Practices advances dialogue and collaboration between academics and practitioners and is essential reading for students, researchers and professionals in architecture, urban planning and urban policy.

Urban Action Networks

Author : Howard Lune
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742540842
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Urban Action Networks written by Howard Lune and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Action Networks is a study of how communities organize in response to threats to their lives and well being. As HIV/AIDS wreaked havoc on the worlds of some of the most marginal and disenfranchised people in New York, they came together to create a shared response, forming a new organizational field within which their various efforts were coordinated. How the communities of the most affected people organized, reorganized, and redefined the social and political context of HIV/AIDS offers an encouraging glimpse into the way in which marginal communities can convert shared needs into collective action.

The Affordable City

Author : Shane Phillips
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642831336
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book The Affordable City written by Shane Phillips and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crises of high housing costs and household instability. Debates over the appropriate course of action have been defined by two poles: building more housing or enacting stronger tenant protections. These options are often treated as mutually exclusive, with support for one implying opposition to the other. Shane Phillips believes that effectively tackling the housing crisis requires that cities support both tenant protections and housing abundance. He offers readers more than 50 policy recommendations, beginning with a set of principles and general recommendations that should apply to all housing policy. The remaining recommendations are organized by what he calls the Three S’s of Supply, Stability, and Subsidy. Phillips makes a moral and economic case for why each is essential and recommendations for making them work together. There is no single solution to the housing crisis—it will require a comprehensive approach backed by strong, diverse coalitions. The Affordable City is an essential tool for professionals and advocates working to improve affordability and increase community resilience through local action.

Warsaw Housing Cooperative

Author : Magdalena Matysek-Imielińska
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030230775
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Warsaw Housing Cooperative written by Magdalena Matysek-Imielińska and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the unknown and remote urban experiment of modernist social practices and dreams of a better tomorrow. It describes the history of the Warsaw Housing Cooperative not as a historical relic or a single case study, but instead analyses this working-class social housing estate – in itself an extremely interesting emancipatory project – from the perspective of contemporary urban studies. It focuses on issues related to the power of architecture, architects and the estate residents themselves: the city's performative actions, problems related to the polycentric character of the city authorities, the opportunities of building urban institutions, and social identities and urban common goods. Inspired by the history of the Warsaw Housing Cooperative, the book investigates how the estate residents, assisted by social reformers (today called urban activists), organised the urban space of performative democracy, and how they developed anti-capitalist, urban-survival strategies and created new lifestyles. It also analyses how passive tenants turned into active citizens claiming their right to the city. The inspiring book is intended for researchers in the field of performative studies, urban sociologists, critical urban studies researchers, animators of social life and urban activists.

Action Plan for the Revitalization of the 30th Street Industrial Corridor, City of Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Author : Dan Boyce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Action Plan for the Revitalization of the 30th Street Industrial Corridor, City of Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin written by Dan Boyce and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New York City's Action in Permanently Retiring Grumman Flxible Model "870" Transit Buses

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book New York City's Action in Permanently Retiring Grumman Flxible Model "870" Transit Buses written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Buffalo

Author : Buffalo (N.Y.). Common Council
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2644 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Buffalo written by Buffalo (N.Y.). Common Council and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 2644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Undoing Optimization

Author : Alison B Powell
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300258666
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Undoing Optimization written by Alison B Powell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique examination of the civic use, regulation, and politics of communication and data technologies City life has been reconfigured by our use—and our expectations—of communication, data, and sensing technologies. This book examines the civic use, regulation, and politics of these technologies, looking at how governments, planners, citizens, and activists expect them to enhance life in the city. Alison Powell argues that the de facto forms of citizenship that emerge in relation to these technologies represent sites of contention over how governance and civic power should operate. These become more significant in an increasingly urbanized and polarized world facing new struggles over local participation and engagement. The author moves past the usual discussion of top-down versus bottom-up civic action and instead explains how citizenship shifts in response to technological change and particularly in response to issues related to pervasive sensing, big data, and surveillance in "smart cities".

OECD Reviews on Local Job Creation City of Talent Montreal An Action Plan for Boosting Employment, Innovation and Skills

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264268669
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book OECD Reviews on Local Job Creation City of Talent Montreal An Action Plan for Boosting Employment, Innovation and Skills written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montreal has huge potential to become one of the most dynamic cities across OECD countries, thanks to its talented and creative population. Yet the city has not demonstrated outstanding results in terms of job creation and collective wealth generation in the past few years. This report examines ...

What a City Is For

Author : Matt Hern
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262334070
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book What a City Is For written by Matt Hern and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into gentrification and displacement, focusing on the case of Portland, Oregon's systematic dispersal of black residents from its Albina neighborhood. Portland, Oregon, is one of the most beautiful, livable cities in the United States. It has walkable neighborhoods, bike lanes, low-density housing, public transportation, and significant green space—not to mention craft-beer bars and locavore food trucks. But liberal Portland is also the whitest city in the country. This is not circumstance; the city has a long history of officially sanctioned racialized displacement that continues today. Over the last two and half decades, Albina—the one major Black neighborhood in Portland—has been systematically uprooted by market-driven gentrification and city-renewal policies. African Americans in Portland were first pushed into Albina and then contained there through exclusionary zoning, predatory lending, and racist real estate practices. Since the 1990s, they've been aggressively displaced—by rising housing costs, developers eager to get rid of low-income residents, and overt city policies of gentrification. Displacement and dispossessions are convulsing cities across the globe, becoming the dominant urban narratives of our time. In What a City Is For, Matt Hern uses the case of Albina, as well as similar instances in New Orleans and Vancouver, to investigate gentrification in the twenty-first century. In an engaging narrative, effortlessly mixing anecdote and theory, Hern questions the notions of development, private property, and ownership. Arguing that home ownership drives inequality, he wants us to disown ownership. How can we reimagine the city as a post-ownership, post-sovereign space? Drawing on solidarity economics, cooperative movements, community land trusts, indigenous conceptions of alternative sovereignty, the global commons movement, and much else, Hern suggests repudiating development in favor of an incrementalist, non-market-driven unfolding of the city.

Children in the City

Author : Pia Christensen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134512643
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Children in the City written by Pia Christensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely and thought-provoking book explores children's lives in modern cities. At a time of intense debate about the quality of life in cities, this book examines how they can become good places for children to live in. Through contributions from childhood experts in Europe, Australia and America, the book shows the importance of studying children's lives in cities in a comparative and generational perspective. It also contains fascinating accounts of city living from children themselves, and offers practical design solutions. The authors consider the importance of the city as a social, material and cultural place for children, and explore the connections and boundaries between home, neighbourhood, community and city. Throughout, they stress the importance of engaging with how children see their city in order to reform it within a child-sensitive framework. This book is invaluable reading for students and academics in the field of anthropology, sociology, social policy and education. It will also be of interest to those working in the field of architecture, urban planning and design.

Annual Report

Author : Cleveland (Ohio)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report written by Cleveland (Ohio) and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Reports of the City Departments of the City of Cincinnati ...

Author : Cincinnati (Ohio)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Annual Reports of the City Departments of the City of Cincinnati ... written by Cincinnati (Ohio) and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cut-Pieces

Author : Lotte Hoek
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023116288X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Cut-Pieces written by Lotte Hoek and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title explores the shadowy world of the short, pornographic cut-piece clips that appear in some films in Bangladesh and examines their place in South Asian film culture. It provides a portrait of the production, consumption and cinematic pleasures of stray celluloid and shines a light on Bangladesh's state-owned film industry and popular practices of the obscene. The book also reframes conceptual approaches to South Asian cinema and film culture, drawing on media anthropology to decode the cultural contradictions of Bangladesh since the 1990s.

The Image of the City

Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262620017
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)

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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.