Описание: Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do or don t develop into large and sustained mobilizations.
Описание: This book builds on the recent publications on cities and climate change, resilient cities and coasts, and sustainable cities, and looks at the ways in which current planning approaches will need to be adapted to embrace concepts including green growth, planetary boundaries, healthy cities and longer-term sustainability.
Автор: Beauregard Robert A. Название: Cities in the Urban Age: A Dissent ISBN: 022653538X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226535388 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 4118.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A case for and against cities: they`re the best thing we have going (environmentally, socially, in terms of tolerance) but they`re also inherently destructive. How to reconcile both-Beauregard argues that we don`t need to; we should accept cities as inherently full of contradictions.
Автор: Katz Michael B. Название: Why Don`t American Cities Burn? ISBN: 0812222806 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812222807 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 4460.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a horrific yet mundane incident for the poor, heavily African American neighborhood of North Philadelphia—one of seven homicides to occur in the city that day and yet not make the major newspapers. For Michael B. Katz, an urban historian and a juror on the murder trial, the story of Manes and Shorty exemplified the marginalization, social isolation, and indifference that plague American cities. Introduced by the gripping narrative of this murder and its circumstances, Why Don't American Cities Burn? charts the emergence of the urban forms that underlie such events. Katz traces the collision of urban transformation with the rightward-moving social politics of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America. He shows how the bifurcation of black social structures produced a new African American inequality and traces the shift from images of a pathological black "underclass" to praise of the entrepreneurial poor who take advantage of new technologies of poverty work to find the beginning of the path to the middle class. He explores the reasons American cities since the early 1970s have remained relatively free of collective violence while black men in bleak inner-city neighborhoods have turned their rage inward on one another rather than on the agents and symbols of a culture and political economy that exclude them. The book ends with a meditation on how the political left and right have come to believe that urban transformation is inevitably one of failure and decline abetted by the response of government to deindustrialization, poverty, and race. How, Katz asks, can we construct a new narrative that acknowledges the dark side of urban history even as it demonstrates the capacity of government to address the problems of cities and their residents? How can we create a politics of modest hope?
Автор: White Gary, Pienaar Marguerite, Serfontein Bouwer Название: Africa Drawn: One Hundred Cities ISBN: 3869224231 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783869224237 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 8270.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Africa - a continent of small villages in the jungle and savannah? Certainly not. The urbanisation of the continent is advancing rapidly, while African cities and metropolitan regions are among the fastest growing in the world. Africa Drawn presents one hundred of the most connected and important cities of the continent.
A visual feast of three hundred images and masterfully drawn plans illustrates contemporary and historical place-making actions in Africa. The result is simultaneously an artistic and visually fascinating documentation of African urban space and a convincing analysis of its structure and morphology, thus providing a spatial point of departure for all interested parties. The drawings are accompanied by introductory texts and, for the first time, render possible a comparison of the diverse urban form on the continent.
The study attempts to provide an indispensable resource of spatial and figure ground patterns in the context of urban space in Africa.
How rulers in ancient and medieval Europe expressed their power through cities, buildings, and sites
The Power of Place explores the nature of power--the power of kings, emperors, and popes--through the places that these rulers created or developed, including palaces, cities, landscapes, holy places, inauguration sites, and burial places. Ranging across all of Europe from the first to the sixteenth centuries--from Prague and Seville to Palermo and the Oslo Fjord--David Rollason examines how these places conveyed messages of power and what those messages were.
Rollason draws on the latest research in a range of disciplines--principally archaeology, and the histories of art, architecture, and landscape, as well as historical and literary studies--to investigate what the power of rulers consisted of. Was their power based on impersonal bureaucratic mechanisms, on personal relationships between rulers and subjects, or on strong beliefs in the quasi-divine status of rulers? How did impressive edifices support and emphasize these practices of power? Rollason takes readers to spectacular sites, including the remarkable remains of the tenth-century city of Madinat al-Zahra near Cordoba, the remarkably preserved palace-church of the emperor Charlemagne in Aachen, and the soaring shrine-church of the Saint-Chapelle of King Louis IX.
Giving readers the tools to analyze rulers' palaces, landscapes, cities, and holy places, The Power of Place offers a fascinating perspective on the development of power throughout history.
-- "Choice"
Автор: Lewis Название: Cities in Motion ISBN: 1107108330 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107108332 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 17107.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A social history of cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia`s port cities in the interwar era, including Penang, Rangoon and Bangkok. Su Lin Lewis challenges colonial and nationalist narratives by focusing on the connected experiences of urbanism and modernity by multi-ethnic communities across Asia and in Asian intellectual enclaves in Europe.
Описание: The Icon Project argues that the transnational capitalist class mobilizes two forms of iconic architecture - unique icons recognized as works of art, notably designed by global starchitects (such as Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid); and typical icons copying elements of unique icons - to promote the same ideological message: the culture-ideology of consumerism.
Автор: Robert W. Orttung Название: Sustaining Russia`s Arctic Cities ISBN: 1785333151 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785333156 Издательство: Berghahn Рейтинг: Цена: 16988.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city managers will face in navigating this shifting political, economic, social, and environmental terrain. In particular, the volume examines how energy production drives a boom-bust cycle in the Arctic economy, explores how migrants from Muslim cultures are reshaping the social fabric of northern cities, and provides a detailed analysis of climate change and its impact on urban and industrial infrastructure.
Автор: Clark, Peter Название: The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History ISBN: 0198779372 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198779377 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6493.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet`s inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind`s greatest collective achievements over time. Written by leading scholars, this is the first detailed survey of the world`s cities and towns from ancient times to the present day.
Автор: Simon Curtis Название: Global Cities and Global Order ISBN: 0198744013 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198744016 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14890.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume investigates the changing nature of cities in the international system, and their increasing prominence in global governance and global order.
Автор: Peter Clark Название: The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History ISBN: 0199589534 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199589531 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 19008.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet`s inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind`s greatest collective achievements over time. Written by leading scholar, this is the first detailed survey of the world`s cities and towns from ancient times to the present day.
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