The Country And The City Revisited

Author : Gerald M. MacLean
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521592017
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Country and the City Revisited written by Gerald M. MacLean and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revisionist interdisciplinary study of the transformation of England into an imperial power between 1550 and 1850.

Author : Edward C. Banfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unheavenly City; the Nature and Future of Our Urban Crisis written by Edward C. Banfield and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Kantor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000315851
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dependent City Revisited written by Paul Kantor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a book that makes sense of the L.A. riots, homelessness, tax giveaways, and the other big urban issues that are back in the national spotlight. In this streamlined and updated new edition of his classic book, The Dependent City, Paul Kantor now focuses on economic development and social welfare policies to reveal the key dilemmas of American urban politics. Returning to a political economy theme, Kantor explores how city governments have struggled to escape and accommodate the reality of their economic dependency in the policies that they've pursued. Revisiting cities across the nation, Kantor finds not only that they have become more dependent but also that the character of this dependency has changed and deepened. Exploring local regimes in the Frostbelt and Sunbelt and in suburbia, he finds that they frequently act more like captives of big business rather than as representatives of citizens. Local attempts to promote social justice increasingly run up against a wall of economic dependency created by federal policies and business power. This book signals how American cities can find ways of overcoming this dependency by working together with states and the federal government to promote healthy, democratic urban politics. The Dependent City Revisited is an accessible, provocative supplement for a wide variety of courses in urban studies and political economy as well as stimulating reading for anyone who is interested in understanding America's urban mosaic.

Author : Thomas Deckker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135802491
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern City Revisited written by Thomas Deckker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The supposed rationality of the urban planning of the Modern Movement encompassed a variety of attitudes towards history, technology and culture, from the vision of Berlin as an American metropolis, through the dispute between the urbanists and disurbanists in the Soviet Union to the technocratic and austere vision of Le Corbusier. After the Second World War, architects attempted to reconcile these utopian visions to the practical problems of constructing - or reconstructing - urban environments, from Piero Bottoni at the Quartiere Trienale 8 in Milan in 1951 to Lucio Costa at Bras'lia in 1957. In the 1970s, the collapse of Modernism brought about universial condemnation of Modern urbanism; urban planning,and rationality itself, were thrown into doubt. However, such a wholesale condemnation hides the complex realities underlying these Modern cities. The contributors define some of the theoretical foundations of Modern urban planning, and reassess the successes and the failures of the built results. The book ends with contrasting views of the inheritance of Modern urbanism in the United States and the Netherlands.

Author : Edward C. Banfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unheavenly City Revisited written by Edward C. Banfield and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revision of The unheavenly city. Bibliography: p. [291]-292.

Author : Nora Pleßke
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839426723
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intelligible Metropolis written by Nora Pleßke and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urban ultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. Nora Pleßke develops a model of urban mentality to be employed for cities worldwide. Against the background of the Spatial Turn, she identifies dominant urban-specific structures of London mentality in contemporary London novels, such as Monica Ali's »Brick Lane«, J.G. Ballard's »Millennium People«, Nick Hornby's »A Long Way Down«, and Ian McEwan's »Saturday«.

Author : Dennis R. Judd
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816665753
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City, Revisited written by Dennis R. Judd and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reexamining urban scholarship for the twenty-first century.

Author : Raymond Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Country and the City written by Raymond Williams and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pascale Guibert
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042032626
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflective Landscapes of the Anglophone Countries written by Pascale Guibert and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too many landscapes have been reduced to silent commodities by being put into golden frames on top of our fireplaces. Too many landscapes have been reified by being considered as objects holding forth referents to an omnipotent looker-on, with his/her language ever ready to seize and transcribe. The articles gathered here, prolonging an international conference held at the University of Caen Basse-Normandie (France), 14-16 June 2007, set the landscapes loose again by engaging with their essentially relational quality. What makes this volume particularly stimulating and critically innovative is this initial acknowledgement of a landscape's reflectiveness - that is the fact that it contains unthought thought, and thus presents itself to us both passively and actively. This straightaway appraisal of the lines of flight in the seemingly static, tranquil images facing us, has opened the way to deeply critical readings bent on questioning old tracks, testing new itineraries, denying the closure of the subject. At the same time, and by way of consequence, it leads us to encounter the force in landscape. A force like an energy, an impetus, which makes it possible - if not advisable - to still compose, read and enjoy landscapes in the XXIst century.

Author : M. Thompson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230101054
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fleeing the City written by M. Thompson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the phenomenon of antiurbanism: the antipathy, fear, and hatred of the city. Antiurbanism has been a pervasive counter-discourse to modernity and urbanization especially since the beginning of industrialism and the dawning of modern life. Most of the attention on modernity has been focused on urbanization and its consequences. But as the essays collected here demonstrate, antiurbanism is an equally important reality as it can be seen as playing a crucial role in cultural identity, in the formation of the self within the context of modernity, as well as in the root of many forms of conservative politics and cultural movements.