Books About Cities

Author : Cynthia Zarin
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
ISBN 13 : 1644230313
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Cities written by Cynthia Zarin and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on two cities, Venice and Rome—each a work of art, both a monument to the past—and on how love and loss shape places and spaces. Here we encounter a writer deeply engaged with narrative in situ—a traveler moving through beloved streets, sometimes accompanied, sometimes solo. With her, we see, anew, the Venice Biennale, the Lagoon, and San Michele, the island of the dead; the Piazza di Spagna, the Tiber, the view from the Gianicolo; the pigeons at San Marco and the parrots in the Doria Pamphili. As a poet first and foremost, Zarin’s attention to the smallest details, the loveliest gesture, brings Venice and Rome vividly to life for the reader. The sixteenth book in the expanding, renowned ekphrasis series, Two Cities creates space for these two historic cities to become characters themselves, their relationship to the writer as real as any love affair.

Author : Anne-Sophie Baumann
Publisher : Twirl
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Book of Cities written by Anne-Sophie Baumann and published by Twirl. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does the Express bus take you? How many swans are in the lake at the park? What replaces the shoe repair store? The Ultimate Book of Cities reveals the answers to these questions and much, much more in an oversized fact- and action-packed look at life in the big city! Featuring 59 flaps, pop-ups, pull tabs and movable parts, this all-you-need-to-know guide provides detailed information about what makes a city tick: from the different ways of getting around and what goes on in all the big buildings, to what traffic signs mean and who are all the people who keep the city in tip-top shape! It is a must-have volume to add to a young reader's library of The Ultimate Book series.

Author : Jan Gehl
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597269840
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities for People written by Jan Gehl and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use—or could use—the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes into the landscapes he believes they should be: cities for people. Taking into account changing demographics and changing lifestyles, Gehl emphasizes four human issues that he sees as essential to successful city planning. He explains how to develop cities that are Lively, Safe, Sustainable, and Healthy. Focusing on these issues leads Gehl to think of even the largest city on a very small scale. For Gehl, the urban landscape must be considered through the five human senses and experienced at the speed of walking rather than at the speed of riding in a car or bus or train. This small-scale view, he argues, is too frequently neglected in contemporary projects. In a final chapter, Gehl makes a plea for city planning on a human scale in the fast- growing cities of developing countries. A “Toolbox,” presenting key principles, overviews of methods, and keyword lists, concludes the book. The book is extensively illustrated with over 700 photos and drawings of examples from Gehl’s work around the globe.

Author : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Books about Cities written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library and Information Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Books about Cities, 1971-1973 written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library and Information Division and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane Jacobs
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 039470584X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economy of Cities written by Jane Jacobs and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1970-02-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Jane Jacobs, building on the work of her debut, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, investigates the delicate way cities balance the interplay between the domestic production of goods and the ever-changing tide of imports. Using case studies of developing cities in the ancient, pre-agricultural world, and contemporary cities on the decline, like the financially irresponsible New York City of the mid-sixties, Jacobs identifies the main drivers of urban prosperity and growth, often via counterintuitive and revelatory lessons.

Author : Jane Jacobs
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 052543285X
Total Pages : 482 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 Jane Jacobs and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book's arguments." Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jacobs's small masterpiece is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It is sensible, knowledgeable, readable, indispensable. The author has written a new foreword for this Modern Library edition.

Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504031342
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Cities written by Lewis Mumford and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 572 pages. 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 : Peter J. Taylor
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839100133
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advanced Introduction to Cities written by Peter J. Taylor and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful Advanced Introduction explores the key attributes of cities, identifying their five basic characteristics; innate complexity, the agglomeration of activities, inter-city connectivities, the projection of power, and relations to states. Peter J. Taylor gives a broad and engaging overview of how these characteristics work and relate to each other, supplemented by ten short city insights which offer readers specific examples of cities and themes.

Author : Helen Jarvis
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life of Cities written by Helen Jarvis and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2001 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary urbanisation has two faces: global flows of people, money and information, and localised social and economic disparities. Recent research has focused on the headlines of global cities as control centres of the world economy, and social and economic shockwaves that have raged through cities and regions. Less attention has been paid to the secret life of cities, the changing nature of everyday life in the wake of global changes. The Secret Life of Cities challenges current research and policy agendas recommending spatial concentration and relocation as a solution to the problems of environmental sustainability and social dislocation. Instead, it highlights the key linkages between social and environmental problems and argues that neither are likely to be resolved with a simple spatial fix. The book draws attention to local contexts of contemporary urbanisation, emphasising consideration of policy making from the perspective of the household, a key unit of analysis in identifying links between labour and housing markets, transport and leisure. The Secret Life of Cities draws upon detailed household interviews about the daily experiences of life in a global city and illustrates the solutions that people routinely find in order to overcome daily dilemmas. It shows that these local fixes, managed at the level of the household, work in spite of, and sometimes against, existing policies aimed at sustainability. It concludes that policy making needs to be radically overhauled in order to address the integrated nature of people's everyday lives. Andy Pratt is Senior Lecturer in Geography at the London School of Economics. Helen Jarvis is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Peter Cheng-Chong Wu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Studies Education at the National Taipei Teachers College.