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Author : Michel Conan
Release : 2008
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Gardens, City Life and Culture by : Michel Conan
Download or read book Gardens, City Life and Culture written by Michel Conan. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeks to understand the roles played by gardens from Roman antiquity to approximately 1850, particularly as they relate to public life in large cities.
Author : Adrian Franklin
Release : 2010-05-31
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 761/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis City Life by : Adrian Franklin
Download or read book City Life written by Adrian Franklin. This book was released on 2010-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities are more important as cultural entities than their mere function as dormitories and industrial sites. Yet, the understanding of what makes a city ‘alive’ and appealing in cultural terms is still hotly contested - why are some cities so much more interesting, popular and successful than others? In this engaging discussion in the text City Life, Adrian Franklin takes the reader on a tour of contemporary western cities exploring their historical development and arguing that it is the transformative, ritual and performative qualities of successful cities that makes a difference. Emphasizing the importance of experience, the book represents the fluid complexity of the city as a living space, an environment and a posthumanist space of transformation. It will be of interest to all those engaging with the difficulties of urban life in sociology, human geography, tourism and cultural studies departments.
Author : Lewis Mumford
Release : 2016-03-08
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 342/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Culture of Cities by : Lewis Mumford
Download or read book The Culture of Cities written by Lewis Mumford. This book was released on 2016-03-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker. Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The Culture of Cities is a call for communal action to “rebuild the urban world on a sounder human foundation.” First published in 1938, this radical investigation into the human environment is based on firsthand surveys of North American and European locales, as well as extensive historical and technological research. Mumford takes readers from the compact, worker-friendly streets of medieval hamlets to the symmetrical neoclassical avenues of Renaissance cities. He studies the squalor of nineteenth-century factory towns and speculates on the fate of the booming twentieth-century Megalopolis—whose impossible scale, Mumford believes, can only lead to its collapse into a “Nekropolis,” a monstrosity of living death. A civic visionary, Mumford is credited with some of the earliest proposals for ecological urban planning and the appropriate use of technology to create balanced living environments. In the final chapters of The Culture of Cities, he outlines possible paths toward utopian future cities that could be free of the stressors of the Megalopolis, in sync with the rhythms of daily life, powered by clean energy, integrated with agricultural regions, and full of honest and comfortable housing for the working class. The principles set forth by these visions, once applied to Nazi-occupied Europe’s razed cities, are still relevant today as technological advances and overpopulation change the nature of urban life.
Author : Clara Lederer
Release : 2014-07-19
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 442/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Their Paths Are Peace by : Clara Lederer
Download or read book Their Paths Are Peace written by Clara Lederer. This book was released on 2014-07-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their Paths Are Peace tells the story of the creation of The Cleveland Cultural Gardens, a unique collection of landscaped, themed gardens each representing a different ethnic group/organization in Cleveland. First published in 1954 (and long out of print) this 65th anniversary edition presents the original content (with minor corrections) in a fresh layout.
Author : Malve von Hassell
Release : 2002-01-30
Genre : Gardening
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Book Synopsis The Struggle for Eden by : Malve von Hassell
Download or read book The Struggle for Eden written by Malve von Hassell. This book was released on 2002-01-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing at a time when the further destruction of community gardens had been legally forbidden, but the city council was voting to continue replacing them with development, Hassell (behavioral sciences, Suffolk County Community College, New York) presents one perspective on the history and current status of urban community gardens on the Lower East Side of New York City. He concentrates on the last two decades of the 20th century. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
