The Life And Death Of The Shopping City

Author : Alistair Kefford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108864864
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Death of the Shopping City written by Alistair Kefford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative new history of the modern British city traces the story of urban redevelopment from the 1940s era of reconstruction up to the present-day crisis of town centre retailing and property markets, showing how planners, property developers, councils, and retailers and worked together to create the modern shopping city.

Author : Jane Jacobs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death and Life of Great American Cities written by Jane Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joel Garreau
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307801942
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edge City written by Joel Garreau and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City.

Author : Sharon Zukin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199741891
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naked City written by Sharon Zukin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "authentic" urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops. These signify a place's authenticity, in contrast to the bland standardization of the suburbs and exurbs. But as Sharon Zukin shows in Naked City, the rapid and pervasive demand for authenticity--evident in escalating real estate prices, expensive stores, and closely monitored urban streetscapes--has helped drive out the very people who first lent a neighborhood its authentic aura: immigrants, the working class, and artists. Zukin traces this economic and social evolution in six archetypal New York areas--Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union Square, Red Hook, and the city's community gardens--and travels to both the city's first IKEA store and the World Trade Center site. She shows that for followers of Jane Jacobs, this transformation is a perversion of what was supposed to happen. Indeed, Naked City is a sobering update of Jacobs' legendary 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Like Jacobs, Zukin looks at what gives neighborhoods a sense of place, but argues that over time, the emphasis on neighborhood distinctiveness has become a tool of economic elites to drive up real estate values and effectively force out the neighborhood "characters" that Jacobs so evocatively idealized.

Author : Lealan Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671004646
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our America written by Lealan Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning creators of National Public Radio's "Ghetto Life 101" and "Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse" combine talents with a young photographer to show what life is like in one of the country's darkest places: Chicago's Ida B. Wells housing project. Photos.

Author : Terry Sterling
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493003062
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illegal written by Terry Sterling and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terry Greene Sterling enters the fearful ghettoes of Arizona, the gateway for nearly half of the nation's undocumented immigrants and the state that is the least welcoming toward them, to tell the stories of the men, women, and children who have crossed the border.

Author : Anne Rademacher
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888528688
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death and Life of Nature in Asian Cities written by Anne Rademacher and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death and Life of Nature in Asian Cities explores the encounter between two processes that are unfolding in diverse patterns across Asia—the rapid urbanization of Asia across big cities, smaller towns, and the newest urban concentrations; and the contentious debates and novel schemes by which nature is figured and emplaced in cities and their conurbations. Contemporary Asian cities displace nature by causing its death and withering, but also embrace it through acts of renewal and the pursuit of sustainability. Contributors in this volume gather case studies from across Asia to address projects of urban greening and reimagining nature in urban life. The book illustrates how the intersection of urban growth and urban nature is a place rich with fresh ideas about urban planning, governance, and social life. This book illuminates a continuing process of discovery and regeneration through which urban natures may well be moving from taken-for-granted infrastructures to more consciously experienced sites of interplay between non-human life and materials, and daily human life experiences. Debates and efforts to recover nature in the city provoke moral and ethical evaluations of the human ecology of city life, and direct ecologies of urbanism into new avenues like aesthetics, care, perception, and stewardship. “This fascinating collection of essays brings together a series of cutting-edge insights into Asian cities caught in the maelstrom of global environmental change. A particular strength of this book is its commitment to forms of interdisciplinary dialogue and conceptual engagement that unsettle existing geographies of knowledge.” —Matthew Gandy, University of Cambridge; author of Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space “This impressive collection on urban ecologies moves beyond the anthropocentric city to expand our understanding of cities as multispecies spaces of active collaboration, decay, and regeneration, offering new possibilities for the flourishing of urban life—both human and non-human—and the design of more just and sustainable cities for all.” —Christina Schwenkel, University of California, Riverside; author of Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam

Author : Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375424237
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brief History of the Dead written by Kevin Brockmeier and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-02-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the holdouts, like Luka Sims, who produces the City’s only newspaper, are wondering what exactly is going on. Others, like Coleman Kinzler, believe it is the beginning of the end. Meanwhile, Laura Byrd is trapped in an Antarctic research station, her supplies are running low, her radio finds only static, and the power is failing. With little choice, Laura sets out across the ice to look for help, but time is running out. Kevin Brockmeier alternates these two storylines to create a lyrical and haunting story about love, loss and the power of memory.

Author : Amy Braunschweiger
Publisher : 671 Press
ISBN 13 : 0982173326
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taxi Confidential written by Amy Braunschweiger and published by 671 Press. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outrageous encounter in a cab is a rite of passage in New York City. Trap two or more strangers in a careening yellow sedan and add an unexpected variable-say, a well-armed transvestite hooker, the urgent need for a restroom, or a stabbing victim-and the story that emerges is sure to be worth telling. In Taxi Confidential, cabbies ranging from a lead-footed pothead to a philosophizing immigrant sage grapple with what chance tosses their way. Author Amy Braunschweiger uncovers the best taxi stories from the 1970s through present day, and takes the reader on a 100-mile-per-hour ride through Gotham's darkest alleys, roughest neighborhoods, and hidden sweet spots.

Author : Jane Jacobs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death and Life of American Cities written by Jane Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: