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Author : William Gorham
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Urban Predicament written by William Gorham and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 1976 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Gorham
Publisher : Urban Inst Press
ISBN 13 : 9780877661610
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Urban Predicament written by William Gorham and published by Urban Inst Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Gorham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Urban Predicament written by William Gorham and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : N. Jayaram
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 8132237412
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Social Dynamics of the Urban written by N. Jayaram and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume emphasises the sociological view that cities are primarily about people, not places or buildings, and explores the social dynamics of urban space in globalising India. Distinguishing between ‘locale’ and ‘milieu’ and the community–cosmopolitanism dialectic in urban areas, it elucidates the thematic for urban sociology today. The chapters explore the various perspectives and processes in understanding the urban predicament in India today. The contributors specifically ask: What are the characteristics of the fastest growing cities in India? What are the forces shaping their forms and processes? Who benefits from what type of livelihood options cities offer? How have city administrations been dealing with mounting demands for housing, energy, and water resources, and problems of mass transportation? What implications do these have for the ecology of the city and the surrounding areas? Given the heterogeneity of urban populations, what social processes are at work and how they affect cit[y]zenship and identity? What aspirations and tensions are expressed among different groups, and what implications do these have for inter-group relations? What challenges do inter-group relations pose for urban planning and administration? The contributors include renowned scholars as also young researchers. They go beyond their disciplinary moorings of economics, history, political science, social work, and sociology, and their trans-disciplinary dialogues carry inputs from policy makers, administrators, and grassroots activists working in urban areas.
Author : M. Carter Mcfarland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000301397
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Federal Government And Urban Problems written by M. Carter Mcfarland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the programs and performance of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It deals with the present and future of HUD and the cities it was designed to serve and evaluates HUD activities in economics and housing finance, political science, and urban planning.
Author : Michael Larice
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136205667
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book The Urban Design Reader written by Michael Larice and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design. Nearly 50 generous selections include seminal contributions from Howard, Le Corbusier, Lynch, and Jacobs to more recent writings by Waldheim, Koolhaas, and Sorkin. Following the widespread success of the first edition of The Urban Design Reader, this updated edition continues to provide the most important historical material of the urban design field, but also introduces new topics and selections that address the myriad challenges facing designers today. The six part structure of the second edition guides the reader through the history, theory and practice of urban design. The reader is initially introduced to those classic writings that provide the historical precedents for city-making into the twentieth century. Part Two introduces the voices and ideas that were instrumental in establishing the foundations of the urban design field from the late 1950s up to the mid-1990s. These authors present a critical reading of the design professions and offer an alternative urban design agenda focused on vital and lively places. The authors in Part Three provide a range of urban design rationales and strategies for reinforcing local physical identity and the creation of memorable places. These selections are largely describing the outcomes of mid-century urban design and voicing concerns over the placeless quality of contemporary urbanism. The fourth part of the Reader explores key issues in urban design and development. Ideas about sprawl, density, community health, public space and everyday life are the primary focus here. Several new selections in this part of the book also highlight important international development trends in the Middle East and China. Part Five presents environmental challenges faced by the built environment professions today, including recent material on landscape urbanism, sustainability, and urban resiliency. The final part examines professional practice and current debates in the field: where urban designers work, what they do, their roles, their fields of knowledge and their educational development. The section concludes with several position pieces and debates on the future of urban design practice. This book provides an essential resource for students and practitioners of urban design, drawing together important but widely dispersed writings. Part and section introductions are provided to assist readers in understanding the context of the material, summary messages, impacts of the writing, and how they fit into the larger picture of the urban design field.
Author : Michael Dear
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351067982
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society written by Michael Dear and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1981, Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society, is a comprehensive collection of papers addressing urban crises. Through a synthesis of current discussions around various critical approaches to the urban question, the book defines a general theory of urbanization and urban planning in capitalist society. It examines the conceptual preliminaries necessary for the establishment of capitalist theory and provides a theoretical exposition of the fundamental logic of urbanization and urban planning. It also provides a detailed discussion of commodity production and its effects on urban development.
Author : Simon Eisner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471284284
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (842 download)
Download or read book The Urban Pattern written by Simon Eisner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1993-04-16 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than forty years this text has been educating students about the history of city planning and its contemporary practice. The sixth edition brings students up-to-date with new coverage of computer modeling, the new exurbia and megalopolis, seismic issues, hazardous waste, development vs. no growth, environmental concerns, and participatory planning.
Author : Michael E. Leary-Owhin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351970534
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, The City and Urban Society written by Michael E. Leary-Owhin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre,The City and Urban Society is the first edited book to focus on Lefebvre's urban theories and ideas from a global perspective, making use of recent theoretical and empirical developments, with contributions from eminent as well as emergent global scholars. The book provides international comparison of Lefebvrian research and theoretical conjecture and aims; to engage with and critique Lefebvre's ideas in the context of contemporary urban, social and environmental upheavals; to use Lefebvre's spatial triad as a research tool as well as a point of departure for the adoption of ideas such as differential space; to reassess Lefebvre's ideas in relation to nature and global environmental sustainability; and to highlight how a Lefebvrian approach might assist in mobilising resistance to the excesses of globalised neoliberal urbanism. The volume draws inspiration from Lefebvre's key texts (The Production of Space; Critique of Everyday Life; and The Urban Revolution) and includes a comprehensive introduction and concluding chapter by the editors. The conclusions highlight implications in relation to increasing spatial inequalities; increasing diversity of needs including those of migrants; more authoritarian approaches; and asymmetries of access to urban space. Above all, the book illustrates the continuing relevance of Levebvre's ideas for contemporary urban issues and shows – via global case studies – how resistance to spatial domination by powerful interests might be achieved. The Handbook helps the reader navigate the complex terrain of spatial research inspired by Lefebvre. In particular the Handbook focuses on: the series of struggles globally for the 'right to the city' and the collision of debates around the urban age, 'cityism' and planetary urbanisation. It will be a guide for graduate and advanced undergraduate teaching, and a key reference for academics in the fields of Human Geography, Sociology, Political Science, Applied Philosophy, Planning, Urban Theory and Urban Studies. Practitioners and activists in the field will also find the book of relevance.
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Fiscal and Intergovernmental Policy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Is the Urban Crisis Over? written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Fiscal and Intergovernmental Policy and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dennis L. Roberts
Publisher : Educational Technology
ISBN 13 : 9780877780243
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Planning Urban Education written by Dennis L. Roberts and published by Educational Technology. This book was released on 1972 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Burton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136804803
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Achieving Sustainable Urban Form written by Elizabeth Burton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achieving Sustainable Urban Form represents a major advance in the sustainable development debate. It presents research which defines elements of sustainable urban form - density, size, configuration, detailed design and quality - from macro to micro scale. Case studies from Europe, the USA and Australia are used to illustrate good practice within the fields of planning, urban design and architecture.
Author : Irene Tinker
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483148726
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)
Download or read book The Many Facets of Human Settlements written by Irene Tinker and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-18 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Many Facets of Human Settlements: Science and Society focuses on communications, energy, and planning and design issues besetting human settlements. The book also tackles rural and urban development, types of habitats, industrialization, and lifestyles. The selection first discusses the influence of technology in shaping lifestyles, including advanced urban systems, programs on communications, and technology assessment of telecommunication-transportation interactions. Concerns include goals for the performance of human settlements and innovations for cities of the future; overview of studies and experiments pursued by the New Rural Society; and concept for a nationwide satellite communication systems to serve rural areas. The text then looks at the sources of energy in human settlements. Topics include alternatives to gas heat, coal, oil, solar heating, heat pump, and action plan. The book examines energy conservation in housing design, ecotechnologies and ecocommunities, bioshelters and their implications for lifestyle, high-rise habitat, and energy and rural development. The text also tackles industrialization and urbanization in Japan. Considerations include population density and urbanization, environmental disruption, and Japan as a postindustrial society. The selection is a vital source of data for readers interested in the issues and factors influencing human settlements.
Author : United States. Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book National Urban Recreation Study written by United States. Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon Pynoos
Publisher : AldineTransaction
ISBN 13 : 0202320111
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Housing Urban America written by Jon Pynoos and published by AldineTransaction. This book was released on 1980 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of housing: an increasingly difficult quest in the contemporary urban United States, where crime, urban blight, and continuing capital decay undercut the advantages of city living. The American dream has moved to the suburbs; the nightmare of our cities prompts new recognition both in the president's cabinet and the college curriculum. The editors of this book have updated their acclaimed earlier collection, providing new introductory articles; new papers, such as, Discrimination in Housing Prices and Mortgage Lending, A Summary Report of Current Findings from the Experimental Housing Allowance Program, Alternative Mortgage Designs and Their Effectiveness in Eliminating Demand and Supply Effects on Inflation; and a new bibliography of the literature. Additional chapters focus on differing strategies for improved urban housing and renewal by providing concrete suggestions for distributing existing resources and allocating new funding. The bibliography provides the best single guide to the current literature on housing. Housing Urban America, in this new edition, is an important guide to those students and scholars fascinated by the essential questions of adequate housing: its social costs, and the source of the revenues to provide it.
Author : E. Jay Howenstine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135151489X
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Housing Urban America written by E. Jay Howenstine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of housing: an increasingly difficult quest in the contemporary urban United States, where crime, urban blight, and continuing capital decay undercut the advantages of city living. The American dream has moved to the suburbs; the nightmare of our cities prompts new recognition both in the president's cabinet and the college curriculum.The editors of this book have updated their acclaimed earlier collection, providing new introductory articles; new papers, such as, Discrimination in Housing Prices and Mortgage Lending, ASummary Report of Current Findings from the Experimental Housing Allowance Program, Alternative Mortgage Designs and Their Effectiveness in Eliminating Demand and Supply Effects on Inflation; and a new bibliography of the literature.Additional chapters focus on differing strategies for improved urban housing and renewal by providing concrete suggestions for distributing existing resources and allocating new funding. The bibliography provides the best single guide to the current literature on housing. Housing Urban America, in this new edition, is an important guide to those students and scholars fascinated by the essential questions of adequate housing: its social costs, and the source of the revenues to provide it.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Land Use and Urban Development Impacts of Beltways written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
