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Author : Frederic Cople Jaher
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252009327
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Urban Establishment written by Frederic Cople Jaher and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674044647
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Off the Books written by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate and remarkable ways in which a community survives. The result is a dramatic narrative of individuals at work, and a rich portrait of a community. But while excavating the efforts of men and women to generate a basic livelihood for themselves and their families, Off the Books offers a devastating critique of the entrenched poverty that we so often ignore in America, and reveals how the underground economy is an inevitable response to the ghetto's appalling isolation from the rest of the country.
Author : Lizabeth Cohen
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374721602
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Saving America's Cities written by Lizabeth Cohen and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bancroft Prize In twenty-first-century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic inequality, and unaffordable housing. Cities have limited tools to address these problems, and many must rely on the private market to support the public good. It wasn’t always this way. For almost three decades after World War II, even as national policies promoted suburban sprawl, the federal government underwrote renewal efforts for cities that had suffered during the Great Depression and the war and were now bleeding residents into the suburbs. In Saving America’s Cities, the prizewinning historian Lizabeth Cohen follows the career of Edward J. Logue, whose shifting approach to the urban crisis tracked the changing balance between government-funded public programs and private interests that would culminate in the neoliberal rush to privatize efforts to solve entrenched social problems. A Yale-trained lawyer, rival of Robert Moses, and sometime critic of Jane Jacobs, Logue saw renewing cities as an extension of the liberal New Deal. He worked to revive a declining New Haven, became the architect of the “New Boston” of the 1960s, and, later, led New York State’s Urban Development Corporation, which built entire new towns, including Roosevelt Island in New York City. Logue’s era of urban renewal has a complicated legacy: Neighborhoods were demolished and residents dislocated, but there were also genuine successes and progressive goals. Saving America’s Cities is a dramatic story of heartbreak and destruction but also of human idealism and resourcefulness, opening up possibilities for our own time.
Author : Frederic C. Jaher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780783780719
Total Pages : 789 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Urban Establishment written by Frederic C. Jaher and published by . This book was released on with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ivor Samuels
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136350268
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Urban Forms written by Ivor Samuels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular and influential work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing the stages of this transformation, this book presents the view that the urban tissue, the intermediate scale between the architecture of buildings and the diagrammatic layouts of town planning, is the essential framework for everyday life. Only by investigating the urban tissue will it be possible to understand the complex relationships between plot and built form, between streets and buildings and between these forms and design practices. The chosen trail of the first French edition - Paris, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt - is one of continuously evolving modernity. It outlines a history, which, in one century (1860-1960), completely changed the aspect of our towns and cities and transformed our way of life. The shock has been such that we are still looking for answers, still attempting to find urban forms that can accommodate present day ways of life and at the same time maintain the qualities of the traditional town. This English edition brings the story forward to the present day and considers the impact of the New Urbanism in the United States, which, over the last decade, has sought to re-establish former relationships within the urban tissue.
Author : Mark I. Gelfand
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Nation of Cities written by Mark I. Gelfand and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the struggle waged by big city politicians and other urban interest groups to open the door for a federal-city relationship fromt he first breakthrough during the New Deal through the establishment of a Cabinet level department of Urban Affairs during the Johnson Administration.
Author : Peter Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134602944
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Urban and Regional Planning written by Peter Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth edition of the classic text for students of urban and regional planning. It gives a historical overview of the developments and changes in the theory and practice of planning, throughout the entiretwentieth century. This extensively revised edition follows the successful format of previous editions. Specific reference is made to the most important British developments in recent times, including the devolution of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, the establishment of the Mayor of London and the dominant urban sustainability paradigm. Planning in Western Europe, since 1945, now incorporates new material on EU-wide issues as well as updated country specific sections. Planning in the United States since 1945, now discusses the continuing trends of urban dispersal and social polarisation, as well as initiatives in land use planning and transportation policies. The book looks at the nature of the planning process at the end of the twentieth century and looks forward to the twenty-first century.
Author : Michael Bennett
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816519491
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (194 download)
Download or read book The Nature of Cities written by Michael Bennett and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities are often thought to be separate from nature, but recent trends in ecocriticism demand that we consider them as part of the total environment. This new collection of essays sharpens the focus on the nature of cities by exploring the facets of an urban ecocriticism, by reminding city dwellers of their place in ecosystems, and by emphasizing the importance of this connection in understanding urban life and culture. The editorsÑboth raised in small towns but now living in major urban areasÑare especially concerned with the sociopolitical construction of all environments, both natural and manmade. Following an opening interview with Andrew Ross exploring the general parameters of urban ecocriticism, they present essays that explore urban nature writing, city parks, urban "wilderness," ecofeminism and the city, and urban space. The volume includes contributions on topics as wide-ranging as the urban poetry of English writers from Donne to Gay, the manufactured wildness of a gambling casino, and the marketing of cosmetics to urban women by idealizing Third World "naturalness." These essays seek to reconceive nature and its cultural representations in ways that contribute to understanding the contemporary cityscape. They explore the theoretical issues that arise when one attempts to adopt and adapt an environmental perspective for analyzing urban life. The Nature of Cities offers the ecological component often missing from cultural analyses of the city and the urban perspective often lacking in environmental approaches to contemporary culture. By bridging the historical gap between environmentalism, cultural studies, and urban experience, the book makes a statement of lasting importance to the development of the ecocritical movement. CONTENTS Part 1ÑThe Nature of Cities 1. Urban Ecocriticism: An Introduction, Michael Bennett & David Teague 2. The Social Claim on Urban Ecology, Andrew Ross (interviewed by Michael Bennett) Part 2ÑUrban Nature Writing 3. London Here and Now: Walking, Streets, and Urban Environments in English Poetry from Donne to Gay, Gary Roberts 4. "All Things Natural Are Strange": Audre Lorde, Urban Nature, and Cultural Place, Kathleen R. Wallace 5. Inculcating Wildness: Ecocomposition, Nature Writing, and the Regreening of the American Suburb, Terrell Dixon Part 3ÑCity Parks 6. Writers and Dilettantes: Central Park and the Literary Origins of Antebellum Urban Nature, Adam W. Sweeting 7. Postindustrial Park or Bourgeois Playground? Preservation and Urban Restructuring at Seattle's Gas Works Park, Richard Heyman Part 4ÑUrban "Wilderness" 8. Boyz in the Woods: Urban Wilderness in American Cinema, Andrew Light 9. Central High and the Suburban Landscape: The Ecology of White Flight, David Teague 10. Manufacturing the Ghetto: Anti-urbanism and the Spatialization of Race, Michael Bennett Part 5ÑEcofeminism and the City 11. An Ecofeminist Perspective on the Urban Environment, Catherine Villanueva Gardner 12. "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman": The Political Economy of Contemporary Cosmetics Discourse, Laura L. Sullivan Part 6ÑTheorizing Urban Space 13. Darwin's City, or Life Underground: Evolution, Progress, and the Shapes of Things to Come, Joanne Gottlieb 14. Nature in the Apartment: Humans, Pets, and the Value of Incommensurability, David R. Shumway 15. Cosmology in the Casino: Simulacra of Nature in the Interiorized Wilderness, Michael P. Branch
Author : Duncan Goodwin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351969323
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book The Urban Tree written by Duncan Goodwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing evidence base that documents the social, environmental and economic benefits that urban trees can deliver. Trees are, however, under threat today as never before due to competition for space imposed by development, other hard infrastructures, increased pressure on the availability of financial provision from local authorities and a highly cautious approach to risk management in a modern litigious society. It is, therefore, incumbent upon all of us in construction and urban design disciplines to pursue a set of goals that not only preserve existing trees where we can, but also ensure that new plantings are appropriately specified and detailed to enable their successful establishment and growth to productive maturity. Aimed at developers, urban planners, urban designers, landscape architects and arboriculturists, this book takes a candid look at the benefits that trees provide alongside the threats that are eliminating them from our towns and cities. It takes a simple, applied approach that explores a combination of science and practical experience to help ensure a pragmatic and reasoned approach to decision-making in terms of tree selection, specification, placement and establishment. In this way, trees can successfully be incorporated within our urban landscapes, so that we can continue to reap the benefits they provide.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Establish a Department of Housing and Urban Development written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers S. 497, to establish in the Executive Office of the President an Office of Community Development; and S. 1045 and S. 1599, to establish a Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Establish a Department of Urban Affairs and Housing. 87-1 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Establish a Department of Housing and Urban Development written by United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Bosselmann
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610911490
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Urban Transformation written by Peter Bosselmann and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do cities transform over time? And why do some cities change for the better while others deteriorate? In articulating new ways of viewing urban areas and how they develop over time, Peter Bosselmann offers a stimulating guidebook for students and professionals engaged in urban design, planning, and architecture. By looking through Bosselmann’s eyes (aided by his analysis of numerous color photos and illustrations) readers will learn to “see” cities anew. Bosselmann organizes the book around seven “activities”: comparing, observing, transforming, measuring, defining, modeling, and interpreting. He introduces readers to his way of seeing by comparing satellite-produced “maps” of the world’s twenty largest cities. With Bosselmann’s guidance, we begin to understand the key elements of urban design. Using Copenhagen, Denmark, as an example, he teaches us to observe without prejudice or bias. He demonstrates how cities transform by introducing the idea of “urban morphology” through an examination of more than a century of transformations in downtown Oakland, California. We learn how to measure quality-of-life parameters that are often considered immeasurable, including “vitality,” “livability,” and “belonging.” Utilizing the street grids of San Francisco as examples, Bosselmann explains how to define urban spaces. Modeling, he reveals, is not so much about creating models as it is about bringing others into public, democratic discussions. Finally, we find out how to interpret essential aspects of “life and place” by evaluating aerial images of the San Francisco Bay Area taken in 1962 and those taken forty-three years later. Bosselmann has a unique understanding of cities and how they “work.” His hope is that, with the fresh vision he offers, readers will be empowered to offer inventive new solutions to familiar urban problems.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Establish a Department of Urban Affairs and Housing written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (87) S. Res. 288.
Author : Lauri Johnson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791483584
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Urban Education with an Attitude written by Lauri Johnson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book profiles local and national efforts to transform urban education and reinvent urban teacher preparation. It describes real programs in real urban schools that have developed policy initiatives that promote educational equity, community-based curricula, and teacher education and parent empowerment programs that emphasize democratic collaboration among universities, urban teachers, parents, and community members. By involving all stakeholders, this comprehensive approach provides a model for creating urban schools that not only excite and inspire, but also serve as engines for social change. Contending that urban education reform will fail without public engagement and a commitment to social justice, the contributors challenge urban educators to become accountable to their students and the communities they serve.
Author : Robert Ezra Park
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The City written by Robert Ezra Park and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lawrence H. Larsen
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700631615
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Urban West at the End of the Frontier written by Lawrence H. Larsen and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have largely ignored the western city; although a number of specialized studies have appeared in recent years, this volume is the first to assess the importance of the urban frontier in broad fashion. Lawrence H. Larsen studies the process of urbanization as it occurred in twenty-four major frontier towns. Cities examined are Kansas City, St. Joseph, Lincoln, Omaha, Atchison, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Topeka, Austin, Dallas, Galveston, Houston, San Antonio, Denver, Leadville, Salt Lake City, Virginia City, Portland, Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, and Stockton. Larsen bases his analysis of western cities and their problems on social statistics obtained from the 1880 United States Census. This census is particularly important because it represents the first time that the federal government regarded the United States as an urban nation. The author is the first scholar to do a comprehensive investigation of this important source. This volume gives an accurate portrayal of western urban life. Here are promoters and urban planners crowding as many lots as possible into tracts in the middle of vast, uninhabited valleys. Here are streets clogged with filth because of inadequate sanitation systems; people crowded together in packed quarters with only fledgling police and fire services. Here, too, is the advance of nineteenth-century technology: gaslights, telephones, interurbans. Most important, this study dispels the misconceptions concerning the process of exploration, settlement, and growth of the urban west. City building in the American West, despite popular mythology, was not a response to geographic or climatic conditions. It was the extension of a process perfected earlier, the promotion and building of sites—no matter how undesirable—into successful localities. Uncontrolled capitalism led to disorderly development that reflected the abilities of individual entrepreneurs rather than most other factors. The result was the establishment of a society that mirrored and made the same mistakes as those made earlier in the rest of the country.
