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Author : Ronald John Johnston
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312031244
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)
Download or read book The American Urban System written by Ronald John Johnston and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William D. Solecki
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610919793
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Climate Change and U.S. Cities written by William D. Solecki and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 80% of the U.S. population now lives in urban metropolitan areas, and this number is expected to grow significantly in the coming years. At the same time, the built infrastructure sustaining these populations has become increasingly vulnerable to climate change. Stresses to existing systems, such as buildings, energy, transportation, water, and sanitation are growing. If the status quo continues, these systems will be unable to support a high quality of life for urban residents over the next decades, a vulnerability exacerbated by climate change impacts. Understanding this dilemma and identifying a path forward is particularly important as cities are becoming leading agents of climate action. Prepared as a follow-up to the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA), Climate Change and U.S. Cities documents the current understanding of existing and future climate risk for U.S. cities, urban systems, and the residents that depend on them. Beginning with an examination of the existing science since 2012, chapters develop connections between existing and emerging climate risk, adaptation planning, and the role of networks and organizations in facilitating climate action in cities. From studies revealing disaster vulnerability among low-income populations to the development of key indicators for tracking climate change, this is an essential, foundational analysis. Importantly, the assessment puts a critical emphasis on the cross-cutting factors of economics, equity, and governance. Urban stakeholders and decision makers will come away with a full picture of existing climate risks and a set of conclusions and recommendations for action. Many cities in the United States still have not yet planned for climate change and the costs of inaction are great. With bold analysis, Climate Change and U.S. Cities reveals the need for action and the tools that cities must harness to effect decisive, meaningful change.
Author : Allan Pred
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674930919
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Urban Growth and City Systems in the United States, 1840-1860 written by Allan Pred and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major new work of urban geography, Allan Pred interprets the process by which major cities grew and the entire city-system of the United States developed during the antebellum decades. The book focuses on the availability and distribution of crucial economic information. For as cities developed, this information helped determine the new urban areas in which business opportunities could be exploited and productive innovations implemented. Pred places this original approach to urbanization in the context of earlier, more conventional studies, and he supports his view by a wealth of evidence regarding the flow of commodities between major cities. He also draws on an analysis of newspaper circulation, postal services, business travel, and telegraph usage. Pred's book goes far beyond the usual "biographies" of individual cities or the specialized studies of urban life. It offers a large and fascinating view of the way an entire city-system was put together and made to function. Indeed, by providing the first full account of these two decades of American urbanization, Pred has supplied a vital and hitherto missing link in the history of the United States.
Author : Loretta Lees
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135930252
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Gentrification written by Loretta Lees and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first textbook on the topic of gentrification is written for upper-level undergraduates in geography, sociology, and planning. The gentrification of urban areas has accelerated across the globe to become a central engine of urban development, and it is a topic that has attracted a great deal of interest in both academia and the popular press. Gentrification presents major theoretical ideas and concepts with case studies, and summaries of the ideas in the book as well as offering ideas for future research.
Author : Carl Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The New Urban America written by Carl Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities, revised edition
Author : Celine Rozenblat
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811077991
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book International and Transnational Perspectives on Urban Systems written by Celine Rozenblat and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the recent evolutions of cities in the world according to entirely revised theoretical fundamentals of urban systems. It relies on a vision of cities sharing common dynamic features as co-evolving entities in complex systems. Systems of cities that are interdependent in their evolutions are characterized in the context of that dynamics. They are identified on various geographical scales—worldwide, regional, or national. Each system exhibits peculiarities that are related to its demographic, economic, and geopolitical history, and that are underlined by the systematic comparison of continental and regional urban systems, following a common template throughout the book. Multi-scale urban processes, whether local (one city), or within national systems (systems of cities), or linked to the expansion of transnational networks (towards global urban systems) throughout the world over the period 1950–2010 are deeply analyzed in 16 chapters. This global overview challenges urban governance for designing policies facing globalization and the subsequent ecological transition. The answers, which emerge from the diversity of situations in the world, add some reflections on and recommendations to the “urban system framework” proposed in the Habitat III agenda.
Author : David Goldfield
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761928847
Total Pages : 1057 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Urban History written by David Goldfield and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1057 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by one of the leading scholars of urban studies, this encyclopedia offers an accurate and authoritative historical approach to the dramatic urban growth experienced in the United States during the 20th century.
Author : Sam Bass Warner, Jr.
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262300923
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book American Urban Form written by Sam Bass Warner, Jr. and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of the American city's evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis. American Urban Form—the spaces, places, and boundaries that define city life—has been evolving since the first settlements of colonial days. The changing patterns of houses, buildings, streets, parks, pipes and wires, wharves, railroads, highways, and airports reflect changing patterns of the social, political, and economic processes that shape the city. In this book, Sam Bass Warner and Andrew Whittemore map more than three hundred years of the American city through the evolution of urban form. They do this by offering an illustrated history of “the City”—a hypothetical city (constructed from the histories of Boston, Philadelphia, and New York) that exemplifies the American city's transformation from village to regional metropolis. In an engaging text accompanied by Whittemore's detailed, meticulous drawings, they chart the City's changes. Planning for the future of cities, they remind us, requires an understanding of the forces that shaped the city's past.
Author : R. D. Norton
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483218945
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book City Life-Cycles and American Urban Policy written by R. D. Norton and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City Life-Cycles and American Urban Policy is an interdisciplinary study of differential urban development in the United States since 1945 that aims to place urban policy choices in historical perspective. The book discusses the issues and establishes a framework within which relevant quantitative measurements can be interpreted. The text also describes systematic empirical tests, which typically take the form of regression equations, and traces city population changes into two proximate causes: annexation and urban growth. The reasons for annexation contrasts among the nation’s largest cities; the second-city growth determinant; and the institutional explanation for fiscal differential among large cities are also considered. The book further tackles the issue of federal fiscal assistance to declining cities. Economists will find the book invaluable.
Author : Ronald John Johnston
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312031251
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)
Download or read book The American Urban System written by Ronald John Johnston and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Goldfield
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452265534
Total Pages : 1056 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Urban History written by David Goldfield and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2006-12-07 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a generation of pathbreaking scholarship that has reoriented and enlightened our perception of the American city, the two volumes of the Encyclopedia of American Urban History offer both a summary and an interpretation of the field. With contributions from leading academics in their fields, this authoritative resource offers an interdisciplinary approach by covering topics from economics, geography, anthropology, politics, and sociology.
Author : Brian J. L. Berry
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Geographic Perspectives on Urban Systems written by Brian J. L. Berry and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1970 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan Pred
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674930919
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Urban Growth and City Systems in the United States, 1840-1860 written by Allan Pred and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major new work of urban geography, Allan Pred interprets the process by which major cities grew and the entire city-system of the United States developed during the antebellum decades. The book focuses on the availability and distribution of crucial economic information. For as cities developed, this information helped determine the new urban areas in which business opportunities could be exploited and productive innovations implemented. Pred places this original approach to urbanization in the context of earlier, more conventional studies, and he supports his view by a wealth of evidence regarding the flow of commodities between major cities. He also draws on an analysis of newspaper circulation, postal services, business travel, and telegraph usage. Pred's book goes far beyond the usual "biographies" of individual cities or the specialized studies of urban life. It offers a large and fascinating view of the way an entire city-system was put together and made to function. Indeed, by providing the first full account of these two decades of American urbanization, Pred has supplied a vital and hitherto missing link in the history of the United States.
Author : D. Rodgers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137035137
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Latin American Urban Development into the Twenty First Century written by D. Rodgers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban reality, and the consequences for both Latin America and the rest of the developing world.
Author : Advisory Committee on Technology and Society
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309037867
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Cities and Their Vital Systems written by Advisory Committee on Technology and Society and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities and Their Vital Systems asks basic questions about the longevity, utility, and nature of urban infrastructures; analyzes how they grow, interact, and change; and asks how, when, and at what cost they should be replaced. Among the topics discussed are problems arising from increasing air travel and airport congestion; the adequacy of water supplies and waste treatment; the impact of new technologies on construction; urban real estate values; and the field of "telematics," the combination of computers and telecommunications that makes money machines and national newspapers possible.
Author : Mario Gandelsonas
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Urban Text written by Mario Gandelsonas and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1991 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By adapting Freud's notion of "floating attention" to urban systems, Mario Gandelsonas applies a process of visual drift to the plan of Chicago. He uses mechanical eye of the computer in a "delayering" process to read the plan of the city and to discover the system of urban notions that are specific to the American grid. Gandelsonas explores the spatial relationships between physical and abstract realities in the Chicago River area, the One-Mile Grid and its subdivisions. By highlighting the anomalies and idiosyncrasies of the grid the moments where its regularity falters, he establishes a narrative of Chicago's urban text. In separate essays Catherine Ingraham, Joan Copjec, and John Whiteman explore the philosophical, psychoanalytic, and urbanistic dimension of this provocative analysis.
Author : Sigurd Grava
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780071384179
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Urban Transportation Systems written by Sigurd Grava and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2002-09-09 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Transportation Systems is a complete guide to the types of transportation available to communities together with the technical tools needed to evaluate each for given circumstances.
