[PDF] The Metropolis Its People Politics And Economic Life eBook

Author : Andrew R. Highsmith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 50,1 MB
Release : 2016-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 022641955X

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Flint, Michigan, is widely seen as Detroit s Detroit: the perfect embodiment of a ruined industrial economy and a shattered American dream. In this deeply researched book, Andrew Highsmith gives us the first full-scale history of Flint, showing that the Vehicle City has always seen demolition as a tool of progress. During the 1930s, officials hoped to renew the city by remaking its public schools into racially segregated community centers. After the war, federal officials and developers sought to strengthen the region by building subdivisions in Flint s segregated suburbs, while GM executives and municipal officials demolished urban factories and rebuilt them outside the city. City leaders later launched a plan to replace black neighborhoods with a freeway and new factories. Each of these campaigns, Highsmith argues, yielded an ever more impoverished city and a more racially divided metropolis. By intertwining histories of racial segregation, mass suburbanization, and industrial decline, Highsmith gives us a deeply unsettling look at urban-industrial America."

Author : Jane Jacobs
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0525432876

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In this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities—not nations—that are the drivers of wealth. Challenging centuries of economic orthodoxy, in Cities and the Wealth of Nations the beloved author contends that healthy cities are constantly evolving to replace imported goods with locally-produced alternatives, spurring a cycle of vibrant economic growth. Intelligently argued and drawing on examples from around the world and across the ages, here Jacobs radically changes the way we view our cities—and our entire economy.

Author : Thomas Angotti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 1351065173

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Originally published in 1993, Metropolis 2000 analyses 20th century metropolitan development and planning under the economic and environmental conditions of the world’s regions. Attempts to achieve the physical integration of the city without economic equality have failed. The book advances the principle of ‘integrated diversity’ which emphasises linking neighbourhood planning with a broader vision of the planned metropolis and applies a political economy approach, and argues for a new form of pro-urban thinking. The book argues that the basis for a humane approach to city planning is viewing the metropolis as a beneficial accompaniment to national independence, equality and social progress.

Author : David K. Hamilton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780815325536

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First published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.