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Author | : Lochner Marais |
Publisher | : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2008-07-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1920109455 |
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It is against a post-colonial backdrop that the collection of essays assembled in this book aims to make a contribution to understanding the realities of urban centres which feature less frequently in the academic press. The research reported in this collection echoes and highlights many of the themes found in both urban theory derived from the realities of many ?world cities?, and the challenges remarked upon in development theory seen in much of the work focused on South Africa?s main metropolitan regions.
Author | : Mateusz Laszczkowski |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1785332570 |
Download 'City of the Future' Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the city focuses on every-day practices, official ideologies and representations alongside the memories and dreams of the city’s longstanding residents and recent migrants. Critically examining a range of approaches to place and space in anthropology, geography and other disciplines, the book argues for an understanding of space as inextricably material-and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic – allowing for a plurality of incompatible pasts and futures materialized in spatial form.
Author | : Bernard Gauthiez |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110623064 |
Download The production of Urban Space, Temporality, and Spatiality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The production of urban space in scarcely studied by scholars in historical and urban studies, the city being still predominantly seen as a frame in which activities and social relationship develop, not a produce in itself. The scope of the book is the comprehension of this production. This implies an adequate conceptualisation of the way urban space can be measured and broken down in units which can be put in relation with social processes and agents. A first part examines the concepts and their implications. The second part deals with the anthropology and typology of architectural production considered in relation to demography. The third part develops on the rhythms of the space production at Lyon from the late 15th century to the 19th. The temporalities and spatialities of the production are determined and examined. The agents of the production are studied all along the period, in parallel to the market aimed at: investors in real estate, tenants, activities. Each phenomenon identified can be described and understood as in the meantime a temporal, spatial and social unit.
Author | : Lorraine Leu |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-03-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0822987368 |
Download Defiant Geographies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Defiant Geographies examines the destruction of a poor community in the center of Rio de Janeiro to make way for Brazil’s first international mega-event. As the country celebrated the centenary of its independence, its postabolition whitening ideology took on material form in the urban development project that staged Latin America’s first World’s Fair. The book explores official efforts to reorganize space that equated modernization with racial progress. It also considers the ways in which black and blackened subjects mobilized their own spatial logics to introduce alternative ways of occupying the city. Leu unpacks how the spaces of the urban poor are racialized, and the impact of this process for those who do not fit the ideal models of urbanity that come to define the national project. Defiant Geographies puts the mutual production of race and space at the heart of scholarship on Brazil’s urban development and understands urban reform as a monumental act of forgetting the country’s racial past.
Author | : Fabio Duarte |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2017-01-12 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 131708568X |
Download Space, Place and Territory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Space, place and territory are concepts that lie at the core of geography and urban planning, environmental studies and sociology. Although space, place and territory are indeed polysemic and polemic, they have particular characteristics that distinguish them from each other. They are interdependent but not interchangeable, and the differences between them explain how we simultaneously perceive, conceive and design multiple spatialities. After drawing the conceptual framework of space, place and territory, the book initially explores how we sense space in the most visceral ways, and how the overlay of meanings attached to the sensorial characteristics of space change the way we perceive it – smell, spatial experiences using electroence phalography, and the changing meaning of darkness are discussed. The book continues exploring cartographic mapping not as a final outcome, but rather as an epistemological tool, an instrument of inquiry. It follows on how particular ideas of space, place and territory are embedded in specific urban proposals, from Brasília to the Berlin Wall, airports and infiltration of digital technologies in our daily life. The book concludes by focusing on spatial practices that challenge the status quo of how we perceive and understand urban spaces, from famous artists to anonymous interventions by traceurs and hackers of urban technologies. Combining space, place and territory as distinctive but interdependent concepts into an epistemological matrix may help us to understand contemporary phenomena and live them critically.
Author | : Ianira Vassallo |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2022-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3030840832 |
Download Spatial Tensions in Urban Design Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides an original research perspective to the field of contemporary urban conflicts. Even though violent conflicts have transformed cities during the XX century, it is nowadays possible to identify the phenomenon of “Tensions” as a specific contemporary both social and spatial urban changes catalyst. Through a collection of essays from various disciplines focusing on international case studies—from India to Europe to Latin America— the publication explores the multifaceted concept of “spatial tensions” as a lens for better understanding contemporary urban transformations. While tensions often depend on spatial dispositives and superstructures, they also offer a powerful key for design practices and strategies.
Author | : Pier Carlo Palermo |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2010-06-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9048188709 |
Download Spatial Planning and Urban Development Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Urban planning is a complex field of knowledge and practice. Through the decades, theoretical debate has formed an eclectic set of possible perspectives, without finding, in our opinion, a coherent paradigmatic framework which can adequately guide the interpretation and action in urban planning. The hypothesis of this book is that the attempts of founding an autonomous planning theory are inadequate if they do not explore two interconnected fields: architecture and public policies.The book critically reviews a selected set of current practices and theoretical founding works of modern and contemporary urban planning by highlighting the continuous search for the epistemic legitimization of a large variety of experiences. The distinctive contribution of this book is a documented critique to the eclecticism and abstraction of the main international trends in current planning theory. The dialogic relationship with the traditions of architecture and public policy is proposed here in order to critically review planning theory and practice. The outcome is the proposal of a paradigmatic framework that, in the authors’ opinion, can adequately guide reflections and actions. A pragmatic and interpretative heritage and the project-orientated approach are the basis of this new spatial planning paradigm.
Author | : Mara Albrecht |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2023-11-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1526165724 |
Download The spatiality and temporality of urban violence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This edited volume asks how the city, with its spatial and temporal configuration and its rhythms, produces and shapes violence, both in terms of the built environment, and through particular ‘urban’ social relations. The book builds on the insight that violence itself is a spatiotemporal practice with generative capacities, which produces and transforms urban space and time in the long turn, also through the impact of memory. The analytical categories of space and time must be thought as inextricably linked with each other. Expanding this fundamental conceptual idea offers fresh perspectives on urban violence. The book unites case studies on different world regions and historical periods , and thus challenges assumed binaries of cities the global North and South, the past and present.
Author | : Ove Källtorp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : City and town life |
ISBN | : |
Download Cities in Transformation - Transformation in Cities Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Many cities in different parts of the world have experienced a fundamental economic, cultural and social transformation in recent decades. This volume addresses the global processes of urban transformation empirically and theoretically in a number of case studies of particular cities. The papers cover a range of research in terms of space, time and aspects of urban reality. Some case studies focus on urban life in the context of economic and social structure, or urban renewal in the context of national and local politics. Others deal more specifically with the interrelations between culture, economy and space. The academic focus is variously sociology, political science, economy, geography and architecture.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : City planning |
ISBN | : 9781920109462 |
Download Spatialities of Urban Change Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
It is against a post-colonial backdrop that the collection of essays assembled in this book aims to make a contribution to understanding the realities of urban centres which feature less frequently in the academic press. The research reported in this collection echoes and highlights many of the themes found in both urban theory derived from the realities of many ?world cities?, and the challenges remarked upon in development theory seen in much ofthe work focused on South Africa?s main metropolitan regions.