Books about Cities
Title | Books about Cities PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | City planning |
ISBN |
Cities
Title | Cities PDF eBook |
Author | John Reader |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780802142733 |
Anthropologist John Reader gives us an ecological and functional context of how cities evolve throughout human history. He examines how urban centers thrive, decline, and rise again -- and predicts the role citites will play in the future.
Books about Cities, 1971-1973
Title | Books about Cities, 1971-1973 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library and Information Division |
Publisher | |
Pages | 14 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Heart of Our Cities
Title | The Heart of Our Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Gruen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | City planning |
ISBN |
Introduction to Cities
Title | Introduction to Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Xiangming Chen |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2018-04-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 111916771X |
The revised and updated second edition of Introduction to Cities explores why cities are such a vital part of the human experience and how they shape our everyday lives. Written in engaging and accessible terms, Introduction to Cities examines the study of cities through two central concepts: that cities are places, where people live, form communities, and establish their own identities, and that they are spaces, such as the inner city and the suburb, that offer a way to configure and shape the material world and natural environment. Introduction to Cities covers the theory of cities from an historical perspective right through to the most recent theoretical developments. The authors offer a balanced account of life in cities and explore both positive and negative themes. In addition, the text takes a global approach, with examples ranging from Berlin and Chicago to Shanghai and Mumbai. The book is extensively illustrated with updated maps, charts, tables, and photographs. This new edition also includes a new section on urban planning as well as new chapters on cities as contested spaces, exploring power and politics in an urban context. It contains; information on the status of poor and marginalized groups and the impact of neoliberal policies; material on gender and sexuality; and presents a greater range of geographies with more attention to European, Latin American, and African cities. Revised and updated, Introduction to Cities provides a complete introduction to the history, evolution, and future of our modern cities.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Title | The Death and Life of Great American Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Jacobs |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 482 |
Release | 1992-12-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 067974195X |
Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and keenly detailed, a monumental work that provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities. "The most refreshing, provacative, stimulating and exciting study of this [great problem] which I have seen. It fairly crackles with bright honesty and common sense." —The New York Times A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity.
Cities In Space
Title | Cities In Space PDF eBook |
Author | Prof David Herbert |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 607 |
Release | 2013-11-26 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1134089414 |
This is the third major revision of a text first published in 1982 with the title Urban Geography: A First Approach and in 1990 as Cities in Space: City as Place. The study of urban geography remains an important part of the geographical curriculum both in schools and in higher education. This book analyses life in an urban society and in a world which is being transformed by the processes of urbanization: to study urban geography is to study environments and phenomena significant to our everyday lives. This is an introductory text which aims to present both more traditional and newer approaches to urban geography in an accessible and educational way.