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 | : Brent D. Ryan |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2012-05-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0812206584 |
Almost fifty years ago, America's industrial cities—Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, and others—began shedding people and jobs. Today they are littered with tens of thousands of abandoned houses, shuttered factories, and vacant lots. With population and housing losses continuing in the wake of the 2007 financial crisis, the future of neighborhoods in these places is precarious. How we will rebuild shrinking cities and what urban design vision will guide their future remain contentious and unknown. In Design After Decline, Brent D. Ryan reveals the fraught and intermittently successful efforts of architects, planners, and city officials to rebuild shrinking cities following mid-century urban renewal. With modern architecture in disrepute, federal funds scarce, and architects and planners disengaged, politicians and developers were left to pick up the pieces. In twin narratives, Ryan describes how America's two largest shrinking cities, Detroit and Philadelphia, faced the challenge of design after decline in dramatically different ways. While Detroit allowed developers to carve up the cityscape into suburban enclaves, Philadelphia brought back 1960s-style land condemnation for benevolent social purposes. Both Detroit and Philadelphia "succeeded" in rebuilding but at the cost of innovative urban design and planning. Ryan proposes that the unprecedented crisis facing these cities today requires a revival of the visionary thinking found in the best modernist urban design, tempered with the lessons gained from post-1960s community planning. Depicting the ideal shrinking city as a shifting patchwork of open and settled areas, Ryan concludes that accepting the inevitable decline and abandonment of some neighborhoods, while rebuilding others as new neighborhoods with innovative design and planning, can reignite modernism's spirit of optimism and shape a brighter future for shrinking cities and their residents.
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 | : Sohaela Amiri |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2020-07-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3030456153 |
This edited volume provides an inclusive explanation of what, why, and how cities interact with global counterparts as well as with nation states, non-governmental organizations, and foreign publics. The chapters present theoretical and analytical approaches to the study of city diplomacy as well as case studies to capture the nuances of the practice. By bringing together a diverse group of authors in terms of their geographic location, academic and practitioner backgrounds, the volume speaks to multiple disciplines, including diplomacy, political science, communication, sociology, marketing and tourism.
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 | : James Bryant Conant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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 | : 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 | : Cecil Stewart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : City planning |
ISBN | : |