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Book After Suburbia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roger Keil
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2022-08-31
  • ISBN : 1487531079
  • Pages : 570 pages

Download or read book After Suburbia written by Roger Keil and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planet’s urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century. Based on cutting-edge conceptual thought and steeped in richly detailed empirical work conducted over the past decade, After Suburbia draws on research from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, and the Americas to showcase comprehensive global scholarship on the urban periphery. Contributors explicitly reject the traditional centre-periphery dichotomy and the prioritization of epistemologies that favour the Global North, especially North American cases, over other experiences. In doing so, the book strongly advances the notion of a post-suburban reality in which traditional dynamics of urban extension outward from the centre are replaced by a set of complex contradictory developments. After Suburbia examines multiple centralities and diverse peripheries which mesh to produce a surprisingly contradictory and diverse metropolitan landscape.

Book Still Detached and Subdivided

Download or read book Still Detached and Subdivided written by Markus Moos and published by Jovis Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: his book invites readers to act as 'flies on the wall' during the meeting of four town planners. Its intention is to make us rethink everything we think we know about suburbs. The planners are fictional, the concepts based on academic research, and the arguments substantiated by large amounts of data presented as visually stunning maps and data visualisations. The book offers an accessible yet rigorous account of suburbanisms as particular ways of living, demonstrating that aspects of this lifestyle occur simultaneously in urban and suburban places. The approach suggests that policy solutions to suburban sprawl need to move beyond treating suburbs as homogeneous places in need of urbanisation. SELLING POINTS: * Will radically remodel your ideas on suburbs and urban planning * A meeting between four fictional urban planners sets the stage for a theoretical discussion on suburban life * Accessible yet rigorous, with several eye-catching data maps and visualisations 80 colour images

Book Suburbia in the 21st Century

Download or read book Suburbia in the 21st Century written by Paul J. Maginn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of the world’s population now live in urban areas and the 21st century has been declared as the "urban age". However, closer inspection of where people live in cities, especially within so-called advanced liberal democracies such as Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, reveals that most people live in different types of suburban environments. Drawing together scholars from across the globe, this book provides a series of national, regional, and local case studies from Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Ireland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States to exemplify the diverse and dynamic nature and importance of suburbia in 21st century urban studies, city-building, and urbanism. This book explores the evolving social, physical, and economic character of the suburbs and how structural processes, market dynamics, and government policies have shaped and transformed suburbia around the world. It highlights the continuing importance of the suburbs and the suburban dream, which lives on albeit under increasing challenges, such as the global financial crisis, structural racism, and the Covid-19 pandemic, which have given rise to various suburban nightmares.

Book Suburban Planet

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roger Keil
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2017-12-01
  • ISBN : 0745683150
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Suburban Planet written by Roger Keil and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive wave of present urbanization is often referred to as an 'urban revolution', most of this startling urban growth worldwide is happening at the margins of cities. This book is about the process that creates the global urban periphery – suburbanization – and the ways of life – suburbanisms – we encounter there. Richly detailed with examples from around the world, the book argues that suburbanization is a global process and part of the extended urbanization of the planet. This includes the gated communities of elites, the squatter settlements of the poor, and many built forms and ways of life in-between. The reality of life in the urban century is suburban: most of the earth's future 10 billion inhabitants will not live in conventional cities but in suburban constellations of one kind or another. Inspired by Henri Lefebvre's demand not to give up urban theory when the city in its classical form disappears, this book is a challenge to urban thought more generally as it invites the reader to reconsider the city from the outside in.

Book New Metropolitan Perspectives

Download or read book New Metropolitan Perspectives written by Carmelina Bevilacqua and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 2196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​This book presents the outcomes of the symposium “NEW METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES,” held at Mediterranea University, Reggio Calabria, Italy on May 26–28, 2020. Addressing the challenge of Knowledge Dynamics and Innovation-driven Policies Towards Urban and Regional Transition, the book presents a multi-disciplinary debate on the new frontiers of strategic and spatial planning, economic programs and decision support tools in connection with urban–rural area networks and metropolitan centers. The respective papers focus on six major tracks: Innovation dynamics, smart cities and ICT; Urban regeneration, community-led practices and PPP; Local development, inland and urban areas in territorial cohesion strategies; Mobility, accessibility and infrastructures; Heritage, landscape and identity;and Risk management,environment and energy. The book also includes a Special Section on Rhegion United Nations 2020-2030. Given its scope, the book will benefit all researchers, practitioners and policymakers interested in issues concerning metropolitan and marginal areas.

Book A Research Agenda for Housing

Download or read book A Research Agenda for Housing written by Markus Moos and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Housing is one of the most pertinent issues of our time. Shaped by rapid urbanization, financialization, and various changes in demography, technology, political ideology and public policy, the provision of affordable, adequate, and suitable housing has become an increasingly challenging feat. From high-rise apartment towers constructed in global cities around the world to informal settlements rapidly expanding across the global south, this volume focuses on how political, economic, and societal changes are shaping housing in a variety of contexts.

Book Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design

Download or read book Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design written by Kristof Van Assche and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking Encyclopedia provides a nuanced overview of the key concepts of urban and regional planning and design. Embracing a broad understanding of planning and design within and beyond the professions, it examines what planners and designers can do in and for a community.

Book Hydraulic and Environmental Modelling

Download or read book Hydraulic and Environmental Modelling written by R.A. Falconer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992, this wide-ranging volume features 44 articles from 89 contributors on issues of and solutions to modelling of coastal waters around the world in response to an increasing interest in the development and application of numerical hydraulic models as design and management tools. The contributors advise on areas including tidal current modelling, water quality modelling, sediment transport modelling, wave kinematics and computational methods, along with two keynote articles. The main aim of the conference and its resulting volume was to provide a forum whereby engineers, scientists and planners involved in multi-disciplinary models could collaborate and share their expertise. The counterpart to this book is Hydraulic and Environmental Modelling: Estuarine and River Waters.

Book Eco architecture

    Book Details:
  • Author : C. A. Brebbia
  • Publisher : WIT Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 184564171X
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book Eco architecture written by C. A. Brebbia and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike the mechanistic buildings it replaces, Eco-Architecture is in harmony with nature, including its immediate environs. Eco-Architecture makes every effort to minimise the use of energy at each stage of the building's life cycle, including that embodied in the extraction and transportation of materials, their fabrication, their assembly into the building and ultimately the ease and value of their recycling when the building's life is over. Featuring papers from the First International Conference on Harmonisation between Architecture and Nature, the text brings together papers of an inter-disciplinary nature, and will be of interest to engineers, planners, physicists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, and other specialists, in addition to architects. Featured topics include: Historical and Philosophical aspects; Ecological and Cultural Sensitivity; Human Comfort and Sick Building Syndrome; Energy Crisis and Building Technologies; Carbon Neutral Design; Alternative Sources of Energy (wind, solar, wave, geothermal etc); Design with Nature; Design with Climate; Siting and Orientation; Re-use of Brownfield Sites; Material Selection; Minimal Transportation Approaches and use of Indigenous Materials; Life Cycle Assessment of Materials; Design by Passive Systems; Conservation and Re-use of Water; Building Operation and Management; Applications in Different Building Types; Regulations and Contracts.

Book Amendments to the Foreign Service Buildings Act of 1926

Download or read book Amendments to the Foreign Service Buildings Act of 1926 written by United States. Committee on Foreign Relations. [from old catalog] and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Amendments to the Foreign Service Buildings Act of 1926  Hearings     87 2     August 2 21 1962

Download or read book Amendments to the Foreign Service Buildings Act of 1926 Hearings 87 2 August 2 21 1962 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Realtions and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letters of an Architect  from France  Italy  and Greece

Download or read book Letters of an Architect from France Italy and Greece written by Joseph Woods and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reports from Committees

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  • Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1853
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 560 pages

Download or read book Reports from Committees written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism

Download or read book Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism written by Pablo Calvi and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalismexplores the central role of narrative journalism in the formation of national identities in Latin America, and the concomitant role the genre had in the consolidation of the idea of Latin America as a supra-national entity. This work discusses the impact that the form had in the creation of an original Latin American literature during six historical moments. Beginning in the 1840s and ending in the 1970s, Calvi connects the evolution of literary journalism with the consolidation of Latin America’s literary sphere, the professional practice of journalism, the development of the modern mass media, and the establishment of nation-states in the region.

Book After the Storm

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roberta Botti
  • Publisher : Schlebrügge.Editor
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9783851601565
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book After the Storm written by Roberta Botti and published by Schlebrügge.Editor. This book was released on 2009 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Irrigation Water Rights in California

Download or read book Irrigation Water Rights in California written by Chester O. McCorkle and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Yet More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis

Download or read book Yet More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis written by Thomas Heine Nielsen and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 1997 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fourth collection of Papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre, a collective whose "ulimate aim is to present a new analysis of the Archaic and Classical Greek polis," through various wide-ranging and thematically specific investigations. This volume and the others in the series are released in advance of the publication of a general synthesis of findings, hence the thematic incoherence of the titles contained herein: Polis as the Generic Term for State, Hekataios' Use of the Word Polis in His Periegesis, and A Typology of Dependent Poleis (Mogens Herman Hansen); A Survey of the Major Urban Settlements in the Kimmerian Bosphoros (With a Discussion of Their Status as Poleis ) (Gocha R. Tsetskhladze); Emporion . A Study of the Use and Meaning of the Term in the Archaic and Classical Periods (Mogens Herman Hansen); Colonies and Ports-of-Tradee on the Northern Shores of the Black Sea: Borysthenes, Kremnoi and the "Other Pontic Emporia in Herodotos (John Hind); Some Problems in Polis Identification in the Chalkidic Peninsula (Pernille Flensted-Jensen); Triphylia . An Experiment in Ethnic Construction adn Political Organisation (Thomas Heine Nielsen); The Polis of Asea. A Case-Study of How Archaeology Can expand Our Knowlege of the History of a Polis (Jeanette Forsen and Bjorn Forsen) .