Food and Urbanism: The Convivial City and a Sustainable Future, Susan Parham

Автор: Jenkins Paul
Название: Urbanization, Urbanism, and Urbanity in an African City
ISBN: 1137380160 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137380166
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa has historic roots, and though it has accelerated in recent decades, it retains distinctive forms. This book explores sub-Saharan urbanism through a detailed and wide-ranging study of Maputo, Mozambique, covering physical and socio-economic factors as well as an ethnographic inquiry into cultural attitudes.

Автор: Bennett Larry
Название: The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism
ISBN: 022632379X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226323794
Издательство: Wiley
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Our traditional image of Chicago--as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends--is such a powerful shaper of the city's identity that many of its closest observers fail to notice that a new Chicago has emerged over the past two decades. Larry Bennett here tackles some of our more commonly held ideas about the Windy City--inherited from such icons as Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Daniel Burnham, Robert Park, Sara Paretsky, and Mike Royko--with the goal of better understanding Chicago as it is now the third city.

Bennett calls contemporary Chicago the third city to distinguish it from its two predecessors: the first city, a sprawling industrial center whose historical arc ran from the Civil War to the Great Depression; and the second city, the Rustbelt exemplar of the period from around 1950 to 1990. The third city features a dramatically revitalized urban core, a shifting population mix that includes new immigrant streams, and a growing number of middle-class professionals working in new economy sectors. It is also a city utterly transformed by the top-to-bottom reconstruction of public housing developments and the ambitious provision of public works like Millennium Park. It is, according to Bennett, a work in progress spearheaded by Richard M. Daley, a self-consciously innovative mayor whose strategy of neighborhood revitalization and urban renewal is a prototype of city governance for the twenty-first century. The Third City ultimately contends that to understand Chicago under Daley's charge is to understand what metropolitan life across North America may well look like in the coming decades.

Автор: Berney
Название: Bicycle Urbanism
ISBN: 1472456637 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472456632
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Over recent decades, bicycling has received renewed interest as a means of improving transportation through crowded cities, and also of improving personal health, and reducing environmental impacts associated with travel. While interdisciplinary in scope, this book takes a primarily planning approach to examining bicycling in urban areas.

Автор: Chen
Название: Rethinking Global Urbanism
ISBN: 0415892236 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415892230
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as New York, London, Tokyo in the global North, Mexico City and Shanghai in the developing world, and other major nodes of the world economy, has skewed the concept of the global city toward economics, this volume gathers a diverse group of contributors to focus on smaller and less economically dominant cities. It highlights other important and relatively ignored themes such as cultural globalization, alternative geographies of the global, and the influence of deeper urban histories (particularly those relating to colonialism) in order to advance an alternative view of the global city.