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Author : Gunther Paul Barth
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0195018990
A reprint of the Oxford U. Press edition of 1975 with a new introduction (20 p.). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Steve Inskeep
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 34,22 MB
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0143122169
"Morning Edition" cohost Inskeep presents a riveting account of a single harrowing day in December 2009 that sheds light on the constant tensions in Karachi, Pakistan--when a bomb blast ripped through a religious procession.
Author : Juan Du
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 15,43 MB
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0674975286
A rural borderland just forty years ago, today Shenzhen is a city of twenty million and a technology hub. This success is attributed to its status as a Special Economic Zone, but no other SEZs compare. Juan Du looks to the past to understand why. It turns out that Shenzhen is no prefab “instant city,” but a place influenced by deep local history.
Author : Gary R. Mormino
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 25,56 MB
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 081307231X
Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Florida Nonfiction Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Book Award A leading Florida historian explores one of the state’s most consequential eras It was a time of stunning episodes of boom and bust, an era of extremes, a decade of historic changes that point to Florida’s future. In this book, eminent historian Gary Mormino illuminates early twenty-first-century Florida and its connections to some of the most significant events in contemporary American history. Following Mormino’s milestone work Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams, which details the dynamic history of Florida from 1950 to 2000, Dreams in the New Century explores the state’s tumultuous next chapter, a period that included the Bush v. Gore election, 9/11, the housing bubble and Great Recession, and the election of Barack Obama. During these years the Elián González story engrossed the country, Tim Tebow rose to football fame, and Donald Trump became a Florida celebrity. From hurricanes to Ponzi schemes, red tides, climate change, the “Stand-Your-Ground” gun law, demographic diversity, and more, Florida offered nonstop news fodder that reflected its extraordinary internal trends and its importance in the nation. As Mormino shows, Florida is a place of deep conflicts—North and South, liberal and conservative, newcomer and local, growth and conservation—with histories that can be traced back centuries. In 2000‒2010, Mormino argues, these tensions collided to produce a “Big Bang” that will continue to resonate in years to come. Mormino takes stock of this crucible of change and explains the social, cultural, and political intricacies of a state the world struggles to understand. Dreams in the New Century unravels Florida’s complicated recent history in a gripping, informative, and fascinating narrative.
Author : Harvey J. Miller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402054270
We are on the verge of what many are calling the "second information revolution," based on ubiquitous access to both computing and information. The technologies of instant access have potential to transform dramatically our lives. This book contains chapters by leading international experts. They discuss issues surrounding the impact of instant access on cities, daily lives, transportation, privacy, social and economic networks, community and education.
Author : Daniel Brook
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 32,16 MB
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0393078124
A pioneering exploration of four cities where East meets West and past becomes future: St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai.
Author : Herbert Wright
Publisher : Black Dog Architecture
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781906155346
Assesses the stratospheric rise of the city throughout history, surveying the exploding megacities in China, India, South America and elsewhere to the continuous remodeloing of Western cityscapes and the socialist experiments of the twentieth century.
Author : Amer Moustafa
Publisher :
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : 9789957860219
"'Instant cities : emergent trends in architecture and urbanism in the Arab world' invited colleagues from across disciplines to develop analyses that identify, explicate and theorize emergent trends in architecture and urbanism in the Arab region in general and the Gulf states in particular."--P. vii.
Author : Martin J. Murray
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0231555350
Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Now, for the first time in history, the majority of the world’s population lives in cities. But urbanization is accelerating in some places and slowing down in others. The sprawling megacities of Asia and Africa, as well as many other smaller and medium-sized cities throughout the “Global South,” are expected to continue growing. At the same time, older industrial cities in wealthier countries are experiencing protracted socioeconomic decline. Nonetheless, mainstream urban studies continues to treat a handful of superstar cities in Europe and North America as the exemplars of world urbanism, even though current global growth and development represent a dramatic break with past patterns. Martin J. Murray offers a groundbreaking guide to the multiplicity, heterogeneity, and complexity of contemporary global urbanism. He identifies and traces four distinct pathways that characterize cities today: tourist-entertainment cities with world-class aspirations; struggling postindustrial cities; megacities experiencing hypergrowth; and “instant cities,” or master-planned cities built from scratch. Murray shows how these different types of cities respond to different pressures and logics rather than progressing through the stages of a predetermined linear path. He highlights new spatial patterns of urbanization that have undermined conventional understandings of the city, exploring the emergence of polycentric, fragmented, haphazard, and unbounded metropolises. Such cities, he argues, should not be seen as deviations from a norm but rather as alternatives within a constellation of urban possibility. Innovative and wide-ranging, Many Urbanisms offers ways to understand the disparate forms of global cities today on their own terms.
Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,6 MB
Release : 1964-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262620017
The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.