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Author : Harold L. Platt
Release : 2005-05-22
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 767/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shock Cities by : Harold L. Platt
Download or read book Shock Cities written by Harold L. Platt. This book was released on 2005-05-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Mindy Thompson Fullilove
Release : 2016-10-24
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 205/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Root Shock by : Mindy Thompson Fullilove
Download or read book Root Shock written by Mindy Thompson Fullilove. This book was released on 2016-10-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, a clinical psychiatrist, exposes the devastating outcome of decades of urban renewal projects to our nation’s marginalized communities. Examining the traumatic stress of “root shock” in three African American communities and similar widespread damage in other cities, she makes an impassioned and powerful argument against the continued invasive and unjust development practices of displacing poor neighborhoods.
Author : Why Factory
Release : 2012
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 072/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis City Shock by : Why Factory
Download or read book City Shock written by Why Factory. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where forecasting seems futile, where predictions are unreliable, and where even the most absurd scenarios are plausible, many urban planning decisions seem to be governed not by vision - but by fear. Fear of disaster, fear of change, fear of the unknown. Can we learn from 'fear'? Can we even use it as a guide for spatial planning? 'City Shock' explores ten innocent 'what ifs'. What kinds of radical trend breaks can we expect, and with what effects? Guided by fantasy rather than science, this book imagines how each of these scenarios could play out in the Dutch landscape between 2018 and 2047. In a narrative composed of (im)possible headlines, a chain of fictitious newspaper spreads reports these events, exposes their possible causes and depicts their potential consequences for Dutch spatial planning and lifestyle.
Author : Harold L. Platt
Release : 2020-01-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 775/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shock Cities by : Harold L. Platt
Download or read book Shock Cities written by Harold L. Platt. This book was released on 2020-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shock Cities is environmental history of the highest order. This searching work is the first trans-Atlantic study to examine the industrial city in holistic terms, looking at the transformation of its land, water, and air. Harold L. Platt demonstrates how the creation of industrial ecologies spurred the reorganization of urban areas into separate spheres, unhealthy slums in the center and garden estates in the suburbs. By comparing Chicago and Manchester, Platt also shows how the ruling classes managed the political creation of urban space to ensure financial gain—often to the environmental detriment of both regions. Shock Cities also recasts the age of industry within a larger frame of nature. Frightening epidemics and unnatural "natural disasters" forced the city dwellers onto the path of environmental reform. Crusaders for social justice such as Chicago's Jane Addams and Manchester's Charles Rowley led class-bridging campaigns to clean up the slums. Women activists and other "municipal housekeepers" promoted regulations to reduce air pollution. Public health experts directed efforts to improve sanitation. Out of these reform movements, the Progressives formulated new concepts of environmental conservation and regional planning. Comparing the two cities, Platt highlights the ways in which political culture and institutions act to turn social geography into physical shapes on the ground. This focus on the political formation of urban space helps illuminate questions of social and environmental justice. Shock Cities will be of enormous value to students of ecology, technology, urban planning, and public health in the Western world.
Author : Guy Ortolano
Release : 2019-06-27
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 66X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Thatcher's Progress by : Guy Ortolano
Download or read book Thatcher's Progress written by Guy Ortolano. This book was released on 2019-06-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horizons -- Planning -- Architecture -- Community -- Consulting -- Housing.
