The Urban Mosaic
Author | : Duncan Timms |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780608165257 |
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Author | : Duncan Timms |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780608165257 |
Author | : Thomas Edan Cody |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : City planning |
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Author | : Duncan Timms |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1971-03-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521079648 |
The concept of the city as a mosaic of social worlds has achieved wide currency: the residential differentiation of the urban population provides the matrix for much human activity. In this detailed study, the author demonstrates that much of the manifold variation in the social characteristics of populations living in different parts of the city may be summarized in terms of a small number of factors relating to social rank, style of life preferences and ethnicity. Residential and social differentiation are seen as intimately connected. At the individual level, it is suggested that questions relating to social rank, style of life, and ethnicity provide the main framework for the choice of residential location. At the societal level, it is suggested that the variations in the inter-relationship of the basic differentiating factors are a function of modernization. Empirical material is drawn from an number of Australian cities.
Author | : Sasha Tsenkova |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2006-12-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3790817279 |
This book explores urban dynamics in Europe fifteen years after the fall of communism. The ‘urban mosaic’ of the title expresses the complexity and diversity of the processes and spatial outcomes in post-socialist cities. Emerging urban phenomena are illustrated with case studies, focusing on historical themes, cultural issues and the socialist legacy. Among the cities analyzed are Kazan, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Warsaw, Prague, Komarno, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest, Sofia and Tirana.
Author | : Duncan Timms |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Social classes |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Laren Friedman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Arts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Student housing |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joseph Heathcott |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2023-10-03 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1531504523 |
Winner, The David R. Coffin Publication Grant A vibrant exploration of the everyday life of one of the most diverse places in the world: Queens, New York. Remade by decades of immigration, Queens, New York, has emerged as an emblematic space of social mixing and encounters across multiple lines of difference. With its expansive subdivisions, tangled highways, and centerless form, it is also New York’s most enigmatic borough. It can feel alternately like a big city, a tight-knit village, a featureless industrial zone, or a sprawling suburban community. Through more than 200 contemporary photographs, Joseph Heathcott captures this multifaceted borough and one of the most diverse places in the United States. Drawn from more than a decade of roaming around Queens and snapping photos, Heathcott conveys the juxtaposition of the ordinary and the extraordinary, the mundane and the surprising, and the staggering social diversity that best characterizes Queens. At the heart of the story are two separate but entwined histories: the rapid expansion of the borough’s built environment through the twentieth century, and the millions of people who have traveled from near and far to call Queens home. Newcomers have had to confront discrimination, white racial hostility, legal challenges, and language barriers. They have had to struggle to find adequate housing, places to worship, and jobs that pay enough to survive. And they have done all of this in the borough’s jumbled collection of neighborhoods, housing types, civic and religious institutions, factories and warehouses, commercial streets, and strip malls. Heathcott makes primary use of documentary photography to bring these social and spatial realities of everyday life into relief. He also draws on demographic data, archival sources, planning documents, news stories, and reports. The result is a visual meditation on Queens that provides clues about an urban future where notions of citizenship and belonging are negotiated across multiple lines of difference, but where a sense of ”getting along”—however roughly textured and unfinished—has taken hold in the everyday life of the streets.
Author | : Karen Wilson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2013-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520275500 |
"This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Jews in the Los Angeles Mosaic, organized by the Autry National Center of the American West."--Introduction.
Author | : Manish Chalana |
Publisher | : Hong Kong University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2016-06-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9888208330 |
Seemingly messy and chaotic, the landscapes and urban life of cities in Asia possess an order and hierarchy that often challenges understanding and appreciation. With contributions by a cross-disciplinary group of authors, Messy Urbanism: Understanding the “Other” Cities of Asia examines a range of cases in Asia to explore the social and institutional politics of urban informality and the contexts in which this “messiness” emerges or is constructed. The book brings a distinct perspective to the broader patterns of informal urban orders and processes as well as their interplay with formalized systems and mechanisms. It also raises questions about the production of cities, cityscapes, and citizenship. Messy Urbanism will appeal to professionals, students, and scholars in the fields of urban studies, architecture, landscape architecture, planning and policy, as well as Asian studies. “The rubric of ‘messy urbanism’ is a productive antidote to the binaries that have limited a productive discussion about urbanism in Asia. This book is a significant contribution in understanding the inherent nature of the built environments in aspiring democracies—an emergent urbanism that seamlessly embraces the incremental, temporal, and ephemeral as given conditions in the formation of Asian cities.” —Rahul Mehrotra, Architect / Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard University “This book is of a high quality, with multiple examples from Hong Kong and China. The authors have covered the topic admirably and I expect the book to attract a wide readership.” —Vinit Mukhija, Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Urban Planning, UCLA