Planned Violence
This book brings the insights of social geographers and cultural historians into a critical dialogue with literary narratives of urban culture and theories of literary cultural production. In so doing, it explores new ways of conceptualizing the relationship between urban planning, its often violent effects, and literature. Comparing the spatial pasts and presents of the post-imperial and post/colonial cities of London, Delhi and Johannesburg, but also including case studies of other cities, suc...
Metropolitan Philadelphia
by Professor and Director Public History Steven Conn
On a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins d'Eole, a park whose completion was hailed internationally as an exemplar of sustainable urbanism. The park was the result of a hard-fought, decadelong protest movement in a low-income Maghrebi and African immigrant district starved for infrastructure, but the Mayor's vision of urban sustainability was met with jeers. Drawing extensively from immersive, firsthand ethnographic research with northeast Paris residents, as well a...
The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from 'regional backwater' to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile center, Charlotte stands today as one of the nation's premier banking and financial cores with interests reaching broadly into global markets. Once defined by its biracial and bicultural character, Charlotte is now an emerging immigrant gateway drawing newcomers from Latin America and across the globe. Once deri...
Tehran farzandi dar damane rey (Teheran, a child in the cradle of Rey)
by Mohammad Naraghi
Community Involvement in Urban Regeneration (Regional Development Studies, v. 27)
The Digitized City : Influence & Impact (Comedia Shorts, #7)
by Charles Landry
The Unseen City: Anthropological Perspectives On Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Think globally, act locally emphasizes the importance of scale in dealing with environmental challenges, but not how to factor it in. This major new book focuses on the spatial dimensions of urban environmental burdens, showing how important it is to take these into account when pursuing environmental justice and good governance - whether in the context of the sanitary risks of slum living, the pollution of uncontrolled industrialization and motorization, or the enormous ecological footprints...
Nachhaltige Raeumliche Entwicklung Auf Dem Europaeischen Kontinent - Interdisziplinaere Ansaetze (Social Strategies, #32)
Der Band vereinigt die Beitrage des Symposiums der Faculte Europeenne des Sciences du Foncier (FESF) und des Interdisziplinaren Arbeitskreises fur Entwicklungslanderforschung (IAfEF), welches im Juni 2000 in Strassburg stattgefunden hat und sich mit Fragen der nachhaltigen raumlichen Entwicklung auseinandersetzte. Im Zentrum der interdisziplinaren Analysen stehen die wichtigsten Fragen der sozialen Entwicklung: Massnahmen zur Erhaltung der Umwelt, zur Stabilisierung von Bodenrechten und zur sozi...
Today's home is a kind of fortress that tells us as much about our need for privacy as it does about ensuring our security. Fortress homes, gated communities and elaborate defensive systems have become everyday features of urban life, highlighting the depth of fear as well as the desire for prestige and social display and the ideological strength of home ownership. This book offers a fresh analysis of our homes, our demands for security and anxieties about invasion, loss and finding seclusion in...
Transnational Buildings in Local Environments (Design and the Built Environment)
by Luciana Melchert Saguas Presas
By focusing on the skyscraping transnational building, this book bridges two key debates on the transformation and emerging problems besetting major cities - globalization and ecological and sustainable building design. While such structures tend to be constructed and/or used by transnational companies and are generally viewed as emblems of a 'global city', they nevertheless impact seriously on their local environment, posing numerous environmental burdens on it. By examining office blocks held...
Color and Money (SUNY series, The New Inequalities)
by Gregory D. Squires and Sally O'Connor
Ecologies of Faith in New York City: The Evolution of Religious Institutions (Polis Center Series on Religion and Urban Culture)
Towards an Economic Evaluation of Urban Innovative Projects
50 Years of Community Development Vol II (Community Development Research and Practice, #2)
This 50th anniversary publication provides a comprehensive history of community development. Beginning in 1970 with the advent of the Community Development Society and its journal shortly thereafter, Community Development, the editors have placed the chapters in major themed areas or issues pertinent to both research and practice of community development. The evolution of community development as an area of scholarship and application, and the subsequent founding of the discipline, is vital to...
Everyday Environmentalism: Creating an Urban Political Ecology
by Alex Loftus
Neue Formen sozialer und raumlicher Ausgrenzung stellen ein politisch und soziologisch hoechst aktuelles Thema dar. In der Pariser Region machen seit den achtziger Jahren des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts immer wieder spektakulare Proteste von desillusionierten arbeitslosen Jugendlichen von sich reden. Bis dies in Berlin geschieht, scheint nur eine Frage der Zeit zu sein. Seit Anfang der neunziger Jahre bringen hier die laufenden Restrukturierungen der Arbeits- und Wohnungsmarkte Milieus der AErmlich...