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Author : Lewis Mumford
Release : 1938
Genre : Cities and towns
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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 1938. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lewis Mumford
Release : 1961
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis The City in History by : Lewis Mumford
Download or read book The City in History written by Lewis Mumford. This book was released on 1961. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city's development from ancient times to the modern age. Winner of the National Book Award. "One of the major works of scholarship of the twentieth century" (Christian Science Monitor). Index; illustrations.
Author : Sharon Zukin
Release : 1996-01-23
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Cultures of Cities by : Sharon Zukin
Download or read book The Cultures of Cities written by Sharon Zukin. This book was released on 1996-01-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do cities use culture today? Building on the experience of New York as a "culture capital" Sharon Zukin shows how three notions of culture - as ethnicity, aesthetic, and marketing tool - are reshaping urban places and conflicts over revitalization. She rejects the idea that cities have either a singular urban culture or many different subcultures to argue that cultures are constantly negotiated in the city's central spaces - the streets, parks, shops, museums, and restaurants - which are the great public spaces of modernity. While cultural gentrification may contribute to making our cities both safer and more civilised places to live, it has its darker side. Beneath the perceptions of "civility" and "security" nurtured by cultural strategies, Zukin shows an aggressive private-sector bid for control of public space, a relentless drive for expansion by art museums and other non-profit cultural institutions, and an increasing redesign of the built environment for the purposes of social control. Tying these developments to a new "symbolic economy" based on tourism, media and entertainment, Zukin traces the connections between real estate development and popular expression, and between elite visions of the arts and more democratic representations. Going beyond the immigrants, artists, street peddlers, and security guards who are the key figures in the symbolic economy, Zukin asks: Who really occupies the central spaces of cities? And whose culture is imposed as public culture? Combining cultural critique, interviews, autobiography and ethnography, The Culture of Cities is a compelling account of the public spaces of modernity as they are transformed into new, more troubling landscapes.
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 : Lewis Mumford
Release : 1997
Genre : Cities and towns
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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 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
