[PDF] Early Urban Planning eBook

Author : Jon A. Peterson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,2 MB
Release : 2003-09-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780801872105

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Author : Dean Saitta
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,60 MB
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1786994127

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Cities today are paradoxical. They are engines of innovation and opportunity, but they are also plagued by significant income inequality and segregation by ethnicity, race, and class. These inequalities and segregations are often reinforced by the urban built environment: the planning of space and the design of architecture. This condition threatens attainment of wider social and economic prosperity. In this innovative new study, Dean Saitta explores questions of urban sustainability by taking an intercultural, trans-historical approach to city planning. Saitta uses a largely untapped body of knowledge—the archaeology of cities in the ancient world—to generate ideas about how public space, housing, and civic architecture might be better designed to promote inclusion and community, while also making our cities more environmentally sustainable. By integrating this knowledge with knowledge generated by evolutionary studies and urban ethnography (including a detailed look at Denver, Colorado, one of America’s most desirable and fastest growing ‘destination cities’ but one that is also experiencing significant spatial segregation and gentrification), Saitta’s book offers an invaluable new perspective for urban studies scholars and urban planning professionals.”

Author : John William Reps
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 38,10 MB
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0691238243

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This comprehensive survey of urban growth in America has become a standard work in the field. From the early colonial period to the First World War, John Reps explores to what extent city planning has been rooted in the nation's tradition, showing the extent of European influence on early communities. Illustrated by over three hundred reproductions of maps, plans, and panoramic views, this book presents hundreds of American cities and the unique factors affecting their development.

Author : Naomi Carmon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 17,4 MB
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0812222393

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Policy, Planning, and People presents original essays by leading authorities in the field of urban policy and planning. The volume includes theoretical and practice-based essays that integrate social equity considerations into state-of-the-art discussions of findings in a variety of planning issues.

Author : Richard LeGates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 36,91 MB
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1000560163

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First published in 2004. This collection brings together five volumes of classic texts of early modern urban planning. These writings stem from the late nineteenth century up to World War II and permits the reader to evaluate the history of urban planning as one of the great characteristics of modernism and lays the groundwork for speculation about the future of urban planning in the fast-emerging new world. Volume 1 includes selected essays.

Author : Josef W. Konvitz
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1421434628

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Originally published in 1978. Josef Konvitz provides a broad comparative study of European port cities since the Renaissance by examining how they were built and rebuilt in the context of urban industrialization. Konvitz argues that as seafaring became more critical to Western civilization, intellectuals and rulers placed more importance on urban planning. Planning looked different, of course, in various European cities. In Paris, riverside planning was patched into the existing frame of the city, whereas Scandinavian towns on the Baltic were over-designed to accommodate a degree of maritime trade unsustainable for cities writ large. In the eighteenth century, city planning fell out of vogue, and new solutions were introduced to help solve the problems created by urban development. With a series of helpful maps, Konvitz's book is an important source for urban historians of early modern Europe.