How Great Cities Happen

Author : John Stanley
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803924063
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Great Cities Happen written by John Stanley and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban planners in developed countries are increasingly recognizing the need for closer integration of land use and transport. However, this updated second edition of How Great Cities Happen explains how crises like climate change and the lack of affordable housing demonstrate the urgent need for a broader approach in order to create and sustain great cities. Offering innovative solutions to these contemporary challenges, the book examines emerging directions in strategic land use transport planning and analyses how cities function as a home for future generations and other species.

Author : John Stanley
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781035332113
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Great Cities Happen written by John Stanley and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban planners in developed countries are increasingly recognizing the need for closer integration of land use and transport. However, this updated second edition of How Great Cities Happen explains how crises like climate change and the lack of affordable housing demonstrate the urgent need for a broader approach in order to create and sustain great cities. Offering innovative solutions to these contemporary challenges, this second edition of How Great Cities Happen examines new and emerging directions in strategic land use transport planning and analyses how cities function as a home for future generations and other species. Taking an integrated approach, and building on the first edition, chapters explore a broad range of issues concerning strategic urban planning. These include planning for productivity growth; social inclusion and wellbeing, with a particular focus on planning cities for children and youth; housing affordability; environmental sustainability; and integrated governance and funding arrangements. New issues covered in this edition include pressing concerns like climate change and biodiversity protection. The authors adopt a meticulous yet non-technical and accessible approach, grounded in a blend of academic and real-world experience of cities. This transdisciplinary second edition will prove vital to students and scholars of urban planning, transport economics, and social and environmental policy, alongside professional planners and urban policymakers.

Author : Jane Jacobs
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 067974195X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death and Life of Great American Cities written by Jane Jacobs and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992-12-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and keenly detailed, a monumental work that provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities. "The most refreshing, provacative, stimulating and exciting study of this [great problem] which I have seen. It fairly crackles with bright honesty and common sense." —The New York Times A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity.

Author : Martin Fuller
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351353055
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death and Life of Great American Cities written by Martin Fuller and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite having no formal training in urban planning, Jane Jacobs deftly explores the strengths and weaknesses of policy arguments put forward by American urban planners in the era after World War II. They believed that the efficient movement of cars was of more value in the development of US cities than the everyday lives of the people living there. By carefully examining their relevance in her 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jacobs dismantles these arguments by highlighting their shortsightedness. She evaluates the information to hand and comes to a very different conclusion, that urban planners ruin great cities, because they don’t understand that it is a city’s social interaction that makes it great. Proposals and policies that are drawn from planning theory do not consider the social dynamics of city life. They are in thrall to futuristic fantasies of a modern way of living that bears no relation to reality, or to the desires of real people living in real spaces. Professionals lobby for separation and standardization, splitting commercial, residential, industrial, and cultural spaces. But a truly visionary approach to urban planning should incorporate spaces with mixed uses, together with short, walkable blocks, large concentrations of people, and a mix of new and old buildings. This creates true urban vitality.

Author : Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Cities of the United States written by Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 932 pages
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Author : John Robertson Dunlap
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 948 pages
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Download or read book Factory and Industrial Management written by John Robertson Dunlap and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chicago Real Estate Board. Zoning Committee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book Studies on Building Height Limitations in Large Cities written by Chicago Real Estate Board. Zoning Committee and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1026 pages
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