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Author : Zane L. Miller
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Urbanization of Modern America written by Zane L. Miller and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1987 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Metropolitan Frontier written by Carl Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honolulu to Houston and from Fargo to Fairbanks to show how Western cities organize the region's vast spaces and connect them to the even larger sphere of the world economy. His survey moves from economic change to social and political response, examining the initial boom of the 1940s, the process of change in the following decades, and the ultimate impact of Western cities on their environments, on the Western regional character, and on national identity. Today, a.
Author : Zane L. Miller
Publisher : Harcourt College Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780155042759
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (427 download)
Download or read book Urbanization of Modern America written by Zane L. Miller and published by Harcourt College Pub. This book was released on 1987-06-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eugenie L. Birch
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812204476
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Global Urbanization written by Eugenie L. Birch and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in urban areas. Much of this urbanization has been fueled by the rapidly growing cities of the developing world, exemplified most dramatically by booming megacities such as Lagos, Karachi, and Mumbai. In the coming years, as both the number and scale of cities continue to increase, the most important matters of social policy and economic development will necessarily be urban issues. Urbanization, across the world but especially in Asia and Africa, is perhaps the critical issue of the twenty-first century. Global Urbanization surveys essential dimensions of this growth and begins to formulate a global urban agenda for the next half century. Drawing from many disciplines, the contributors tackle issues ranging from how cities can keep up with fast-growing housing needs to the possibilities for public-private partnerships in urban governance. Several essays address the role that cutting-edge technologies such as GIS software, remote sensing, and predictive growth models can play in tracking and forecasting urban growth. Reflecting the central importance of the Global South to twenty-first-century urbanism, the volume includes case studies and examples from China, India, Uganda, Kenya, and Brazil. While the challenges posed by large-scale urbanization are immense, the future of human development requires that we find ways to promote socially inclusive growth, environmental sustainability, and resilient infrastructure. The timely and relevant scholarship assembled in Global Urbanization will be of great interest to scholars and policymakers in demography, geography, urban studies, and international development.
Author : Gunther Barth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190281243
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book City People written by Gunther Barth and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1982-07-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explains the parallel development of urbanization and modernization in late nineteenth-century American society, demonstrating how the successful features of big-city life spread across the country and transformed towns all over America.
Author : Zane L. Miller
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Urbanization of Modern America written by Zane L. Miller and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1973 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David M. P. Freund
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444339001
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book The Modern American Metropolis written by David M. P. Freund and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Modern American Metropolis: A Documentary Reader introduces the history of American cities and suburbs through a collection of original source materials that historians have long used to make sense of the urban experience. Carefully integrates and juxtaposes the primary sources that are at the heart of the collection Revisits and compares issues and themes over time Reveals how the history of cities and suburbs is not limited to buildings, innovation, and politics, and not confined to municipal boundaries Explores a wide variety of topics, including infrastructure development, electoral politics, consumer culture, battles over rights, environmental change, and the meaning of citizenship
Author : Eric Paul Mumford
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300207727
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Designing the Modern City written by Eric Paul Mumford and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive new survey tracing the global history of urbanism and urban design from the industrial revolution to the present. Written with an international perspective that encourages cross-cultural comparisons, leading architectural and urban historian Eric Mumford presents a comprehensive survey of urbanism and urban design since the industrial revolution. Beginning in the second half of the 19th century, technical, social, and economic developments set cities and the world's population on a course of massive expansion. Mumford recounts how key figures in design responded to these changing circumstances with both practicable proposals and theoretical frameworks, ultimately creating what are now mainstream ideas about how urban environments should be designed, as well as creating the field called "urbanism." He then traces the complex outcomes of approaches that emerged in European, American, and Asian cities. This erudite and insightful book addresses the modernization of the traditional city, including mass transit and sanitary sewer systems, building legislation, and model tenement and regional planning approaches. It also examines the urban design concepts of groups such as CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture) and Team 10, and their adherents and critics, including those of the Congress for the New Urbanism, as well as efforts toward ecological urbanism. Highlighting built as well as unbuilt projects, Mumford offers a sweeping guide to the history of designers' efforts to shape cities.
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 : Eli Friedman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231555830
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Urbanization of People written by Eli Friedman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid a vast influx of rural migrants into urban areas, China has allowed cities wide latitude in providing education and other social services. While millions of people have been welcomed into the megacities as a source of cheap labor, local governments have used various tools to limit their access to full citizenship. The Urbanization of People reveals how cities in China have granted public goods to the privileged while condemning poor and working-class migrants to insecurity, constant mobility, and degraded educational opportunities. Using the school as a lens on urban life, Eli Friedman investigates how the state manages flows of people into the city. He demonstrates that urban governments are providing quality public education to those who need it least: school admissions for nonlocals heavily favor families with high levels of economic and cultural capital. Those deemed not useful are left to enroll their children in precarious resource-starved private schools that sometimes are subjected to forced demolition. Over time, these populations are shunted away to smaller locales with inferior public services. Based on extensive ethnographic research and hundreds of in-depth interviews, this interdisciplinary book details the policy framework that produces unequal outcomes as well as providing a fine-grained account of the life experiences of people drawn into the cities as workers but excluded as full citizens.
Author : Marvel Lang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Urban America written by Marvel Lang and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This basic reader provides a comprehensive assessment of the crucial aspects of modern American urban society and sheds some light on alternatives to address pertinent urban problems. Amongst other topics, the book deals with community economic development and revitalization.
Author : Carl Abbott
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816515707
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (157 download)
Download or read book The Metropolitan Frontier written by Carl Abbott and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honolulu to Houston and from Fargo to Fairbanks to show how Western cities organize the region's vast spaces and connect them to the even larger sphere of the world economy. His survey moves from economic change to social and political response, examining the initial boom of the 1940s, the process of change in the following decades, and the ultimate impact of Western cities on their environments, on the Western regional character, and on national identity. Today, a.
Author : Gunther Paul Barth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780019502757
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (27 download)
Download or read book City People written by Gunther Paul Barth and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Felipe Correa
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477309411
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Beyond the City written by Felipe Correa and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last decade, the South American continent has seen a strong push for transnational integration, initiated by the former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who (with the endorsement of eleven other nations) spearheaded the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA), a comprehensive energy, transport, and communications network. The most aggressive transcontinental integration project ever planned for South America, the initiative systematically deploys ten east-west infrastructural corridors, enhancing economic development but raising important questions about the polarizing effect of pitting regional needs against the colossal processes of resource extraction. Providing much-needed historical contextualization to IIRSA’s agenda, Beyond the City ties together a series of spatial models and offers a survey of regional strategies in five case studies of often overlooked sites built outside the traditional South American urban constructs. Implementing the term “resource extraction urbanism,” the architect and urbanist Felipe Correa takes us from Brazil’s nineteenth-century regional capital city of Belo Horizonte to the experimental, circular, “temporary” city of Vila Piloto in Três Lagoas. In Chile, he surveys the mining town of María Elena. In Venezuela, he explores petrochemical encampments at Judibana and El Tablazo, as well as new industrial frontiers at Ciudad Guayana. The result is both a cautionary tale, bringing to light a history of societies that were “inscribed” and administered, and a perceptive examination of the agency of architecture and urban planning in shaping South American lives.
Author : Kenneth T. Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199840342
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Crabgrass Frontier written by Kenneth T. Jackson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987-04-16 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, and rapid transportation, Kenneth Jackson chronicles the phenomenal growth of the American suburb from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. He treats communities in every section of the U.S. and compares American residential patterns with those of Japan and Europe. In conclusion, Jackson offers a controversial prediction: that the future of residential deconcentration will be very different from its past in both the U.S. and Europe.
Author : Chin Jou
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226921921
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Supersizing Urban America written by Chin Jou and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supersizing Urban America reveals how the US government has been, and remains, a major contributor to America s obesity epidemic. Government policies, targeted food industry advertising, and other factors helped create and reinforce fast food consumption in America s urban communities. Historian Chin Jou uncovers how predominantly African-American neighborhoods went from having no fast food chains to being deluged. She lays bare the federal policies that helped to subsidize the expansion of the fast food industry in America s cities and explains how fast food companies have deliberately and relentlessly marketed to urban, African-American consumers. These developments are a significant factor in why Americans, especially those in urban, low-income, minority communities, have become disproportionately affected by the obesity epidemic."
Author : Harriet B. Newburger
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081220008X
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Neighborhood and Life Chances written by Harriet B. Newburger and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the place where you lived as a child affect your health as an adult? To what degree does your neighbor's success influence your own potential? The importance of place is increasingly recognized in urban research as an important variable in understanding individual and household outcomes. Place matters in education, physical health, crime, violence, housing, family income, mental health, and discrimination—issues that determine the quality of life, especially among low-income residents of urban areas. Neighborhood and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to present the findings of studies in the fields of education, health, and housing. The results are intriguing and surprising, particularly the debate over Moving to Opportunity, an experiment conducted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, designed to test directly the effects of relocating individuals away from areas of concentrated poverty. Its results, while strong in some respects, showed very different outcomes for boys and girls, with girls more likely than boys to experience positive outcomes. Reviews of the literature in education and health, supplemented by new research, demonstrate that the problems associated with residing in a negative environment are indisputable, but also suggest the directions in which solutions may lie. The essays collected in this volume give readers a clear sense of the magnitude of contemporary challenges in metropolitan America and of the role that place plays in reinforcing them. Although the contributors suggest many practical immediate interventions, they also recognize the vital importance of continued long-term efforts to rectify place-based limitations on lifetime opportunities.
