The Urban Enigma
Title | The Urban Enigma PDF eBook |
Author | Simone Vegliò |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2020-07-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1786613905 |
This book explores how Latin America indicated an autonomous form of postcolonialism that was marked by the production of multiple conceptualisations of time. The analysis particularly focuses on iconic urban transformations in capital cities such as Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Brasilia, diachronically, and investigates each case’s specific representations of past, present, and future. By exploring these three episodes, the book shows how Latin America’s postcolonialism involved specific spatial dynamics that were inherently working over global socio-political geographies resulting from the legacy of a “long” colonial imagination. The text is divided into two parts. The first part discusses some theoretical questions concerning the very conceptualization of Latin American space and the importance of exploring a genealogy of its urban geographies. The second part analyses the themes proposed through the discussion of the “materiality” of specific historical examples. The section delves into urban transformations in the aforementioned capital cities and focuses on how iconic material forms are able to encapsulate the main socio-political features defining each country’s post-colonial project. The book aims to depict a historical geography capable of describing how controversial relations between power and knowledge had materialised in the shapes of the urban environment and had iconically contributed to the multifaceted production of the global area known as Latin America. Without any pretension to offer an all-embracing perspective, the book discusses the Latin America experience within the broader question concerning the genealogy of global socio-political geographies.
The Urban Enigma
Title | The Urban Enigma PDF eBook |
Author | Michael J. Wilson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Cities and towns in literature |
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The Metropolitan Enigma
Title | The Metropolitan Enigma PDF eBook |
Author | James Q. Wilson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Cities and towns |
ISBN |
Making Cities Work
Title | Making Cities Work PDF eBook |
Author | Robert P. Inman |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2009-01-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1400833159 |
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.
The City and the Grassroots
Title | The City and the Grassroots PDF eBook |
Author | Manuel Castells |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520056176 |
The Metropolitan Enigma : Inquiries Into the Nature and Dimensions of America's Urban Crisis
Title | The Metropolitan Enigma : Inquiries Into the Nature and Dimensions of America's Urban Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | Joint Center for Urban Studies |
Publisher | Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Cities and towns |
ISBN |
The Urban Enigma
Title | The Urban Enigma PDF eBook |
Author | Simone Vegliò |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2019 |
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