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How Cities Work

Author : Alex Marshall
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292792433
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book How Cities Work written by Alex Marshall and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2000-12-31 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Marshall writes with wit, reason, and style . . . An excellent resource on the history and future of American cities.” —Library Journal Do cities work anymore? How did they get to be such sprawling conglomerations of lookalike subdivisions, mega freeways, and “big box” superstores surrounded by acres of parking lots? And why, most of all, don't they feel like real communities? These are the questions that Alex Marshall tackles in this hard-hitting, highly readable look at what makes cities work. Marshall argues that urban life has broken down because of our basic ignorance of the real forces that shape cities—transportation systems, industry and business, and political decision-making. He explores how these forces have built four very different urban environments: the decentralized sprawl of California’s Silicon Valley; the crowded streets of New York City’s Jackson Heights neighborhood; the controlled growth of Portland, Oregon; and the stage-set facades of Disney’s planned community, Celebration, Florida. To build better cities, Marshall asserts, we must understand and intelligently direct the forces that shape them. Without prescribing any one solution, he defines the key issues facing all concerned citizens who are trying to control urban sprawl and build real communities. His timely book is important reading for a wide public and professional audience.

Why Cities Look the Way They Do

Author : Richard J. Williams
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745691846
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Why Cities Look the Way They Do written by Richard J. Williams and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We tend to think cities look the way they do because of the conscious work of architects, planners and builders. But what if the look of cities had less to do with design, and more to do with social, cultural, financial and political processes, and the way ordinary citizens interact with them? What if the city is a process as much as a design? Richard J. Williams takes the moment construction is finished as a beginning, tracing the myriad processes that produce the look of the contemporary global city. This book is the story of dramatic but unforeseen urban sights: how financial capital spawns empty towering skyscrapers and hollowed-out ghettoes; how the zoning of once-illicit sexual practices in marginal areas of the city results in the reinvention of culturally vibrant gay villages; how abandoned factories have been repurposed as creative hubs in a precarious postindustrial economy. It is also the story of how popular urban clichés and the fictional portrayal of cities powerfully shape the way we read and see the bricks, concrete and glass that surround us. Thought-provoking and original, Why Cities Look the Way They Do will appeal to anyone who wants to understand the contemporary city, shedding new light on humanity’s greatest collective invention.

The Work of Cities

Author : Susan E. Clarke
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816628920
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book The Work of Cities written by Susan E. Clarke and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a pathbreaking study based on four case studies--Cleveland, Tacoma, Syracuse, and Jacksonville--authors Susan E. Clarke and Gary L. Gaile show how cities play a vital role in empowering citizens to adapt and serve as catalysts for a global economy. THE WORK OF CITIES is essential reading for anyone who cares about our metropolitan communities.

Making Cities Work

Author : Richard Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134052103
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Making Cities Work written by Richard Gilbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For too long, cities have been thought of as environmental blackspots, with high levels of air and soil pollution, overcrowding, poor sanitation and growing waste disposal problems. This book takes a more positive attitude: cities can be made to work sustainably. Their high population density can work in the environment's favour if they can achieve efficient use of resources such as energy and water supplies, and improve transport and infrastructure. The best cities today are clean, resource efficient, green and pleasant, and not only act as cultural and entertainment centres, but also harbour great varieties of wildlife. Making Cities Work looks at the vital role which local authorities can - and must - play in safeguarding and developing our towns and cities. Their role is crucial, and the aim of the book is to make governments, international bodies and local authority associations aware of how potential environmental and social problems can be overcome, and what can be achieved. This book is being written by urban development experts, based on material supplied by the world's leading city associations. It is being edited by one of the world's most highly regarded cultural ecologists, and has been commissioned by UNHCS for the Habitat II conference. Clearly written, accessible, and fully illustrated throughout with photographs, figures and graphs, it is ideal for students, fascinating reading for the general public, and essential for those involved in local authorities, planning and development.

Uneven Innovation

Author : Jennifer Clark
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231545789
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Uneven Innovation written by Jennifer Clark and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of the future, we are told, is the smart city. By seamlessly integrating information and communication technologies into the provision and management of public services, such cities will enhance opportunity and bolster civic engagement. Smarter cities will bring in new revenue while saving money. They will be more of everything that a twenty-first century urban planner, citizen, and elected official wants: more efficient, more sustainable, and more inclusive. Is this true? In Uneven Innovation, Jennifer Clark considers the potential of these emerging technologies as well as their capacity to exacerbate existing inequalities and even produce new ones. She reframes the smart city concept within the trajectory of uneven development of cities and regions, as well as the long history of technocratic solutions to urban policy challenges. Clark argues that urban change driven by the technology sector is following the patterns that have previously led to imbalanced access, opportunities, and outcomes. The tech sector needs the city, yet it exploits and maintains unequal arrangements, embedding labor flexibility and precarity in the built environment. Technology development, Uneven Innovation contends, is the easy part; understanding the city and its governance, regulation, access, participation, and representation—all of which are complex and highly localized—is the real challenge. Clark’s critique leads to policy prescriptions that present a path toward an alternative future in which smart cities result in more equitable communities.

How Cities Work

Author : James Gulliver Hancock
Publisher : Lonely Planet Kids
ISBN 13 : 9781786570215
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book How Cities Work written by James Gulliver Hancock and published by Lonely Planet Kids. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explore the city inside, outside and underground. With loads of flaps to lift"--Front cover.

Making Cities Work

Author : Robert P. Inman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691131047
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Making Cities Work written by Robert P. Inman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Cities Work brings together leading writers and scholars on urban America to offer critical perspectives on how to sustain prosperous, livable cities in today's fast-evolving economy. Successful cities provide jobs, quality schools, safe and clean neighborhoods, effective transportation, and welcoming spaces for all residents. But cities must be managed well if they are to remain attractive places to work, relax, and raise a family; otherwise residents, firms, and workers will leave and the social and economic advantages of city living will be lost. Drawing on cutting-edge research in the social sciences, the contributors explore optimal ways to manage the modern city and propose solutions to today's most pressing urban problems. Topics include the urban economy, transportation, housing and open space, immigration, race, the impacts of poverty on children, education, crime, and financing and managing services. The contributors show how to make cities work for diverse urban constituencies, and why we still need cities despite the many challenges they pose. Making Cities Work brings the latest findings in urban economics to policymakers, researchers, and students, as well as anyone interested in urban affairs. In addition to the editor, the contributors are David Card, Philip J. Cook, Janet Currie, Edward L. Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, Richard J. Murnane, Witold Rybczynski, Kenneth A. Small, and Jacob L. Vigdor.

World City

Author : Doreen Massey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745654827
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book World City written by Doreen Massey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities around the world are striving to be 'global'. This book tells the story of one of them, and in so doing raises questions of identity, place and political responsibility that are essential for all cities. World City focuses its account on London, one of the greatest of these global cities. London is a city of delight and of creativity. It also presides over a country increasingly divided between North and South and over a neo-liberal form of globalisation - the deregulation, financialisation and commercialisation of all aspects of life - that is resulting in an evermore unequal world. World City explores how we can understand this complex narrative and asks a question that should be asked of any city: what does this place stand for? Following the implosion within the financial sector, such issues are even more vital. In a new Preface, Doreen Massey addresses these changed times. She argues that, whatever happens, the evidence of this book is that we must not go back to 'business as usual', and she asks whether the financial crisis might open up a space for a deeper rethinking of both our economy and our society.

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.

The Work of Cities

Author : Susan E. M. Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781452903323
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Work of Cities written by Susan E. M. Clarke and published by . This book was released on with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a pathbreaking study based on four case studies--Cleveland, Tacoma, Syracuse, and Jacksonville--authors Susan E. Clarke and Gary L. Gaile show how cities play a vital role in empowering citizens to adapt and serve as catalysts for a global economy. THE WORK OF CITIES is essential reading for anyone who cares about our metropolitan communities.

Cities by Design

Author : Fran Tonkiss
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745680291
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Cities by Design written by Fran Tonkiss and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process and examines the close relationship between the social and physical shaping of urban environments. With cities taking a growing share of the global population, urban forms and urban experience are crucial for understanding social injustice, economic inequality and environmental challenges. Current processes of urbanization too often contribute to intensifying these problems; cities, likewise, will be central to the solutions to such problems. Focusing on a range of cities in developed and developing contexts, Cities by Design highlights major aspects of contemporary urbanization: urban growth, density and sustainability; inequality, segregation and diversity; informality, environment and infrastructure. Offering keen insights into how the shaping of our cities is shaping our lives, Cities by Design provides a critical exploration of key issues and debates that will be invaluable to students and scholars in sociology and geography, environmental and urban studies, architecture, urban design and planning.

Regions That Work

Author : Manuel Pastor
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452904412
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Regions That Work written by Manuel Pastor and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Work and the City

Author : Francis Duffy
Publisher : Black Dog Architecture
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Work and the City written by Francis Duffy and published by Black Dog Architecture. This book was released on 2008 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working explores how climate change will affect the way we work and live.

Urban Social Work

Author : Norma Kolko Phillips
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
ISBN 13 : 9780205290192
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Urban Social Work written by Norma Kolko Phillips and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Social Work: An Introduction to Policy and Practice in the Cities introduces students to the profession of social work as it is practiced in the cities. The book utilizes a social systems perspective and helps students to recognize the linkages between social welfare policy and social work practice within the context of urban social problems. Systems theory is important because it stresses direct practice, the role of the agency and social action. The text includes chapters on the cities and the urban origins of social work; the functions and structure of social work organizations; social work values and ethics; social work skills and diversity in social work. Already class-tested, this comprehensive book can be used in an introductory social work course or as a supplementary text for practice and policy courses at the BSW or MSW level.

The Lived Experience of Work and City Rhythms

Author : Louise Nash
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839827580
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Lived Experience of Work and City Rhythms written by Louise Nash and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lived Experience of Work and City Rhythms looks at the working environment, with a focus on the geographical workplace, how this affects the experience of our working lives, and raises key questions, such as: does where we work affect our experience of work? What is the relationship between place and work?

Gendered Work in Asian Cities

Author : Ann Brooks
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754647003
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Gendered Work in Asian Cities written by Ann Brooks and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. Beautifully illustrated and including numerous subject 'capsules', this text follows the development of the several threads of the concept of landscape as they have evolved across disciplines and across countries. Divided into three sections, it first of all introduces the key notions of landscape, then examines the various factors which influence the way in which landscape is perceived now and in the past, with all of the senses. Finally, there is a consideration of the various ways of protecting, managing and enhancing the landscape, especially considering a future of climate change.

The Culture of Cities

Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504031342
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Cities written by Lewis Mumford and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker. Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The Culture of Cities is a call for communal action to “rebuild the urban world on a sounder human foundation.” First published in 1938, this radical investigation into the human environment is based on firsthand surveys of North American and European locales, as well as extensive historical and technological research. Mumford takes readers from the compact, worker-friendly streets of medieval hamlets to the symmetrical neoclassical avenues of Renaissance cities. He studies the squalor of nineteenth-century factory towns and speculates on the fate of the booming twentieth-century Megalopolis—whose impossible scale, Mumford believes, can only lead to its collapse into a “Nekropolis,” a monstrosity of living death. A civic visionary, Mumford is credited with some of the earliest proposals for ecological urban planning and the appropriate use of technology to create balanced living environments. In the final chapters of The Culture of Cities, he outlines possible paths toward utopian future cities that could be free of the stressors of the Megalopolis, in sync with the rhythms of daily life, powered by clean energy, integrated with agricultural regions, and full of honest and comfortable housing for the working class. The principles set forth by these visions, once applied to Nazi-occupied Europe’s razed cities, are still relevant today as technological advances and overpopulation change the nature of urban life.