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Author : Norman Krumholz
Release : 2009
Genre : Law
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 199/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reinventing Cities by : Norman Krumholz
Download or read book Reinventing Cities written by Norman Krumholz. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with planners devoted to the needs of the poor and working class.
Author : Molly O'Meara Sheehan
Release : 1999
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Reinventing Cities for People and the Planet by : Molly O'Meara Sheehan
Download or read book Reinventing Cities for People and the Planet written by Molly O'Meara Sheehan. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- An urbanizing world -- Closing the water and waste circuits -- Toward greater self-reliance in food and energy -- Linking transportation and land use -- Financing the sustainable city -- Building political strength -- Appendix.
Author : Carlos Garcia Vazquez
Release : 2021-09-30
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 494/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cities After Crisis by : Carlos Garcia Vazquez
Download or read book Cities After Crisis written by Carlos Garcia Vazquez. This book was released on 2021-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities After Crisis shows how urbanism and urban design is redefining cities after the global health, economic, and environmental crises of the past decades. The book details how these crises have led to a new urban vision—from avantgarde modern design to an artisan aesthetic that calls for simplicity and the everyday, from the sustainable development paradigm to a resilient vision that defends de-growth and the re-wilding of cities, from a homogenizing globalism to a new localism that values what is distinctive and nearby, from the privatization of the public realm to the commoning and self-governance of urban resources, and from top-down to bottom-up processes based on the engagement and empowerment of communities. Through examples from cities around the world and a detailed look at the London neighbourhood of Dalston, the book shows designers and planners how to incorporate residents into the decision-making process, design inclusive public spaces that can be permanently reconfigured, reimagine obsolete spaces to accommodate radically contemporary uses, and build gardens designed and maintained by the community, among other projects.
Author : Paul Hardin Kapp
Release : 2012-09-30
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 933/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis SynergiCity by : Paul Hardin Kapp
Download or read book SynergiCity written by Paul Hardin Kapp. This book was released on 2012-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City proposes a new and invigorating vision of urbanism, architectural design, and urban revitalization in twenty-first-century America. Culling transformative ideas from the realms of historic preservation, sustainability, ecological urbanism, and the innovation economy, Paul Hardin Kapp and Paul J. Armstrong present a holistic vision for restoring industrial cities suffering from population decline back into stimulating and productive places to live and work. With a particular emphasis on the Rust Belt of the American Midwest, SynergiCity argues that cities such as Detroit, St. Louis, and Peoria must redefine themselves to be globally competitive. This revitalization is possible through environmentally and economically sustainable restoration of industrial areas and warehouse districts for commercial, research, light industrial, and residential uses. The volume's expert researchers, urban planners, and architects draw on the redevelopment successes of other major cities--such as the American Tobacco District in Durham, North Carolina, and the Milwaukee River Greenway--to set guidelines and goals for reinventing and revitalizing the postindustrial landscape. Contributors are Paul J. Armstrong, Donald K. Carter, Lynne M. Dearborn, Norman W. Garrick, Mark Gillem, Robert Greenstreet, Craig Harlan Hullinger, Paul Hardin Kapp, Ray Lees, Emil Malizia, John O. Norquist, Christine Scott Thomson, and James Wasley.
Author : Michael Batty
Release : 2018-12-11
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 906/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Inventing Future Cities by : Michael Batty
Download or read book Inventing Future Cities written by Michael Batty. This book was released on 2018-12-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we can invent—but not predict—the future of cities. We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics apply; cities are the product of countless individual and collective decisions that do not conform to any grand plan. They are the product of our inventions; they evolve. In Inventing Future Cities, Michael Batty explores what we need to understand about cities in order to invent their future. Batty outlines certain themes—principles—that apply to all cities. He investigates not the invention of artifacts but inventive processes. Today form is becoming ever more divorced from function; information networks now shape the traditional functions of cities as places of exchange and innovation. By the end of this century, most of the world's population will live in cities, large or small, sometimes contiguous, and always connected; in an urbanized world, it will be increasingly difficult to define a city by its physical boundaries. Batty discusses the coming great transition from a world with few cities to a world of all cities; argues that future cities will be defined as clusters in a hierarchy; describes the future “high-frequency,” real-time streaming city; considers urban sprawl and urban renewal; and maps the waves of technological change, which grow ever more intense and lead to continuous innovation—an unending process of creative destruction out of which future cities will emerge.
