The Prospect of Cities
Author | : John Friedmann |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780816638840 |
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Author | : John Friedmann |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780816638840 |
Author | : Alan Mallach |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2018-06-12 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1610917812 |
In The Divided City, urban practitioner and scholar Alan Mallach presents a detailed picture of what has happened over the past 15 to 20 years in industrial cities like Pittsburgh and Baltimore, as they have undergone unprecedented, unexpected revival. He spotlights these changes while placing them in their larger economic, social and political context. Most importantly, he explores the pervasive significance of race in American cities, and looks closely at the successes and failures of city governments, nonprofit entities, and citizens as they have tried to address the challenges of change. The Divided City concludes with strategies to foster greater equality and opportunity, firmly grounding them in the cities' economic and political realities.
Author | : Lewis Mumford |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780156180351 |
The city's development from ancient times to the modern age. Winner of the National Book Award. "One of the major works of scholarship of the twentieth century" (Christian Science Monitor). Index; illustrations.
Author | : Lewis Mumford |
Publisher | : New York ; Harcourt, Brace & World |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780156932011 |
Collection of essays and papers.
Author | : Kevin Edson Jones |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0773597794 |
How should the metropolis be governed? What is the appropriate scale to consider and organize local governance and communities? Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international body of scholarly work, City-Regions in Prospect? explores the city-region as both an evolving concept and as a growing area of planning practice. Contributors raise critical questions about the ways in which governance reform is being reshaped and whether current trends towards rescaling and rebounding cities actually address local challenges of urbanization and globalization. These essays highlight the tensions and uncertainties between the city-region as a concept and the experiences of local communities when municipal policies are applied. Proposing a challenge to scholars and municipal leaders to account for flexibility, adaptability to local contexts, social robustness, and community engagement, City-Regions in Prospect? Captures the growing relevance and importance of cities in a rapidly urbanizing world.
Author | : Peter Harnik |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2012-07-16 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1597268127 |
For years American urban parks fell into decay due to disinvestment, but as cities began to rebound—and evidence of the economic, cultural, and health benefits of parks grew— investment in urban parks swelled. The U.S. Conference of Mayors recently cited meeting the growing demand for parks and open space as one of the biggest challenges for urban leaders today. It is now widely agreed that the U.S. needs an ambitious and creative plan to increase urban parklands. Urban Green explores new and innovative ways for “built out” cities to add much-needed parks. Peter Harnik first explores the question of why urban parkland is needed and then looks at ways to determine how much is possible and where park investment should go. When presenting the ideas and examples for parkland, he also recommends political practices that help create parks. The book offers many practical solutions, from reusing the land under defunct factories to sharing schoolyards, from building trails on abandoned tracks to planting community gardens, from decking parks over highways to allowing more activities in cemeteries, from eliminating parking lots to uncovering buried streams, and more. No strategy alone is perfect, and each has its own set of realities. But collectively they suggest a path toward making modern cities more beautiful, more sociable, more fun, more ecologically sound, and more successful.
Author | : Lewis Mumford |
Publisher | : New York ; Harcourt, Brace & World |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : |
Collection of essays and papers.
Author | : United Nations Publications |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2019-10-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9789211483192 |
The report presents findings from the 2018 revision of World Urbanization Prospects, which contains the latest estimates of the urban and rural populations or areas from 1950 to 2018 and projections to 2050, as well as estimates of population size from 1950 to 2018 and projections to 2030 for all urban agglomerations with 300,000 inhabitants or more in 2018. The world urban population is at an all-time high, and the share of urban dwellers, is projected to represent two thirds of the global population in 2050. Continued urbanization will bring new opportunities and challenges for sustainable development.
Author | : Edward Glaeser |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2021-09-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0593297687 |
One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated Cities can make us sick. They always have—diseases spread more easily when more people are close to one another. And disease is hardly the only ill that accompanies urban density. Cities have been demonized as breeding grounds for vice and crime from Sodom and Gomorrah on. But cities have flourished nonetheless because they are humanity’s greatest invention, indispensable engines for creativity, innovation, wealth, and connection, the loom on which the fabric of civilization is woven. But cities now stand at a crossroads. During the global COVID crisis, cities grew silent as people worked from home—if they could work at all. The normal forms of socializing ground to a halt. How permanent are these changes? Advances in digital technology mean that many people can opt out of city life as never before. Will they? Are we on the brink of a post-urban world? City life will survive but individual cities face terrible risks, argue Edward Glaeser and David Cutler, and a wave of urban failure would be absolutely disastrous. In terms of intimacy and inspiration, nothing can replace what cities offer. Great cities have always demanded great management, and our current crisis has exposed fearful gaps in our capacity for good governance. It is possible to drive a city into the ground, pandemic or not. Glaeser and Cutler examine the evolution that is already happening, and describe the possible futures that lie before us: What will distinguish the cities that will flourish from the ones that won’t? In America, they argue, deep inequities in health care and education are a particular blight on the future of our cities; solving them will be the difference between our collective good health and a downward spiral to a much darker place.
Author | : Charles C. Euchner |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 9780415944700 |
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.