Toward an Understanding of the Metropolis
Author | : Robert Murray Haig |
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Release | : 1926 |
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Author | : Robert Murray Haig |
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Release | : 1926 |
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Author | : Robert Murray Haig |
Publisher | : New York : Arno Press |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Author | : Robert Murray Haig |
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Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 196? |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
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Author | : Robert Murray Haig |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1926 |
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Author | : Douglas S. Kelbaugh |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-07-16 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0295997516 |
Repairing the American Metropolis is based on Douglas Kelbaugh’s Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design, first published in 1997. It is more timely and significant than ever, with new text, charts, and images on architecture, sprawl, and New Urbanism, a movement that he helped pioneer. Theory and policies have been revised, refined, updated, and developed as compelling ways to plan and design the built environment. This is an indispensable book for architects, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, architecture and urban planning students and scholars, government officials, developers, environmentalists, and citizens interested in understanding and shaping the American metropolis.
Author | : David Owen |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2009-09-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1101140313 |
Look out for David Owen's next book, Where the Water Goes. A challenging, controversial, and highly readable look at our lives, our world, and our future. Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares, as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams. Yet residents of compact urban centers, Owen shows, individually consume less oil, electricity, and water than other Americans. They live in smaller spaces, discard less trash, and, most important of all, spend far less time in automobiles. Residents of Manhattan—the most densely populated place in North America—rank first in public-transit use and last in percapita greenhouse-gas production, and they consume gasoline at a rate that the country as a whole hasn’t matched since the mid-1920s, when the most widely owned car in the United States was the Ford Model T. They are also among the only people in the United States for whom walking is still an important means of daily transportation. These achievements are not accidents. Spreading people thinly across the countryside may make them feel green, but it doesn’t reduce the damage they do to the environment. In fact, it increases the damage, while also making the problems they cause harder to see and to address. Owen contends that the environmental problem we face, at the current stage of our assault on the world’s nonrenewable resources, is not how to make teeming cities more like the pristine countryside. The problem is how to make other settled places more like Manhattan, whose residents presently come closer than any other Americans to meeting environmental goals that all of us, eventually, will have to come to terms with.
Author | : Hugh Ferriss |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2012-03-14 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0486139441 |
The metropolis of the future — as perceived by architect Hugh Ferriss in 1929 — was both generous and prophetic in vision. This illustrated essay on the modern city and its future features 59 illustrations.
Author | : William Cronon |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 2009-11-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393072452 |
A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe
Author | : Robert Murray Haig |
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Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 1926 |
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Author | : Idurre Alonso |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2021-08-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1606066943 |
This volume examines the unprecedented growth of several cities in Latin America from 1830 to 1930, observing how sociopolitical changes and upheavals created the conditions for the birth of the metropolis. In the century between 1830 and 1930, following independence from Spain and Portugal, major cities in Latin America experienced large-scale growth, with the development of a new urban bourgeois elite interested in projects of modernization and rapid industrialization. At the same time, the lower classes were eradicated from old city districts and deported to the outskirts. The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930 surveys this expansion, focusing on six capital cities—Havana, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, and Lima—as it examines sociopolitical histories, town planning, art and architecture, photography, and film in relation to the metropolis. Drawing from the Getty Research Institute’s vast collection of books, prints, and photographs from this period, largely unpublished until now, this volume reveals the cities’ changes through urban panoramas, plans depicting new neighborhoods, and photographs of novel transportation systems, public amenities, civic spaces, and more. It illustrates the transformation of colonial cities into the monumental modern metropolises that, by the end of the 1920s, provided fertile ground for the emergence of today’s Latin American megalopolis.