Re-shaping Cities
Title | Re-shaping Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Guggenheim |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 2009-12-04 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1135189080 |
This original collection examines how architectural ideas, social models and building forms circulate round the world and become mediated and adapted to local conditions. The book shows how types such as skyscrapers, mosques or living history museums are imported, adapted and contested in different societies and how urban landscapes are reshaped by the global circulation of models drawn from elsewhere. Written by scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds –architecture, anthropology, geography, linguistics, science studies and sociology – the book draws its inspiration from a series of different approaches and offers both original theoretical reflection and carefully crafted case-studies.
Re-shaping Cities
Title | Re-shaping Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Guggenheim |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2009-12-04 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1135189099 |
How are building types such as skyscrapers, mosques or living history museums imported, adapted and contested in different societies? Our urban landscapes are reshaped by the global circulation of models drawn from elsewhere. This original collection examines how architectural ideas, social models and building forms circulate round the world and become adapted to local conditions.
Planning and Knowledge
Title | Planning and Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Raco, Mike |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2019-07-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 144734524X |
This book uses an international perspective and draws on a wide range of new conceptual and empirical material to examine the sources of conflict and cooperation within the different landscapes of knowledge that are driving contemporary urban change. Based on the premise that historically established systems of regulation and control are being subject to unprecedented pressures, scholars critically reflect on the changing role of planning and governance in sustainable urban development, looking at how a shift in power relations between expert and local cultures in western planning processes has blurred the traditional boundaries between public, private and voluntary sectors.
Re-shaping Cities
Title | Re-shaping Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Guggenheim |
Publisher | |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780415492911 |
This original collection examines how architectural ideas, social models and building forms circulate round the world and become mediated and adapted to local conditions. The book shows how types such as skyscrapers, mosques or living history museums are imported, adapted and contested in different societies and how urban landscapes are reshaped by the global circulation of models drawn from elsewhere. Written by scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds âe"architecture, anthropology, geography, linguistics, science studies and sociology âe" the book draws its inspiration from a series of different approaches and offers both original theoretical reflection and carefully crafted case-studies.
Order without Design
Title | Order without Design PDF eBook |
Author | Alain Bertaud |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 429 |
Release | 2024-08-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0262550970 |
An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure. Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the ground—the width of streets, the minimum size of land parcels, the heights of buildings. The language they use to describe their objectives is qualitative—“sustainable,” “livable,” “resilient”—often with no link to measurable outcomes. Urban economics, on the other hand, is a quantitative science, based on theories, models, and empirical evidence largely developed in academic settings. In this book, the eminent urban planner Alain Bertaud argues that applying the theories of urban economics to the practice of urban planning would greatly improve both the productivity of cities and the welfare of urban citizens. Bertaud explains that markets provide the indispensable mechanism for cities’ development. He cites the experience of cities without markets for land or labor in pre-reform China and Russia; this “urban planners’ dream” created inefficiencies and waste. Drawing on five decades of urban planning experience in forty cities around the world, Bertaud links cities’ productivity to the size of their labor markets; argues that the design of infrastructure and markets can complement each other; examines the spatial distribution of land prices and densities; stresses the importance of mobility and affordability; and critiques the land use regulations in a number of cities that aim at redesigning existing cities instead of just trying to alleviate clear negative externalities. Bertaud concludes by describing the new role that joint teams of urban planners and economists could play to improve the way cities are managed.
Shaping Cities in an Urban Age
Title | Shaping Cities in an Urban Age PDF eBook |
Author | Ricky Burdett |
Publisher | Phaidon Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018-09-28 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780714877280 |
An authoritative - and fascinating - investigation into the spatial and social dynamics of cities at a global scale Shaping Cities in an Urban Age is the third addition to Phaidon's hugely successful Urban Age series, published in collaboration with the London School of Economics (LSE) and the Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft (AHG). Generously illustrated with photographs, visual data, and statistics, and featuring a series of essays written by leading people in their fields, Shaping Cities in an Urban Age addresses our most urgent contemporary and future urban issues by examining a set of key forces that have combined to create the city as we know it today. From the publisher of The Endless City and Living in the Endless City.
The Connected City
Title | The Connected City PDF eBook |
Author | Zachary P. Neal |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2012-08-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 113623666X |
The Connected City explores how thinking about networks helps make sense of modern cities: what they are, how they work, and where they are headed. Cities and urban life can be examined as networks, and these urban networks can be examined at many different levels. The book focuses on three levels of urban networks: micro, meso, and macro. These levels build upon one another, and require distinctive analytical approaches that make it possible to consider different types of questions. At one extreme, micro-urban networks focus on the networks that exist within cities, like the social relationships among neighbors that generate a sense of community and belonging. At the opposite extreme, macro-urban networks focus on networks between cities, like the web of nonstop airline flights that make face-to-face business meetings possible. This book contains three major sections organized by the level of analysis and scale of network. Throughout these sections, when a new methodological concept is introduced, a separate ‘method note’ provides a brief and accessible introduction to the practical issues of using networks in research. What makes this book unique is that it synthesizes the insights and tools of the multiple scales of urban networks, and integrates the theory and method of network analysis.