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City at the center of the world: Space, history, and modernity in Quito
Abstract from the publisher: In the seventeenth century, local Jesuits and Franciscans imagined Quito, the Andean capital of Ecuador, as the “new Rome.” It was the site of miracles and home of saintly inhabitants, the origin of crusades…
Taipei: City of displacements
Abstract from the publisher: This cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of Taipei, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose. Contemplating a series of seemingly banal subjects - maps, public art, parks - Joseph Allen peels back layers of…
Megapolitan America
Abstract from the publisher: With an expected population of 400 million by 2040, America is morphing into an economic system composed of 23 "megapolitan" areas that will dominate the nation’s economy by midcentury. These megapolitan…
The lure of the city: From slums to suburbs
Abstract from the publisher: Cities, by their very nature, are a mass of contradictions. They can be at once visually stunning, culturally rich, exploitative and unforgiving. In The Lure of the City Austin Williams and Alastair Donald explore the…
The city of the senses: Urban culture and urban space
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Offering an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to the city which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and urban space, the author approaches the city as essentially a "material" place where…
Bird on fire: Lessons from the world's least sustainable city
Abstract from the publisher: Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall,…
The growth of non-Western cities : Primary and secondary urban networking c. 900 - 1900
Abstract from the publisher : These interdisciplinary studies address pre-1900 non-Western urban growth in the African Sudan, Mexico, the Ottoman Middle East, and South, Southeast, and East Asia. Therein, primary and secondary cities served as…
Lessons for the Big Society: Planning, regeneration and the politics of community participation
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This book provides concrete examples of the ways in which shifting academic debates, policy and political approaches have impacted on a specific place over the past 30 years. It offers a critical analysis of the history,…
Sanctuaries of the city: Lessons from Tokyo
Abstract from the publisher: This book proposes that we can learn from Tokyo about the instrinsic importance of in-between realms to an international culture: the sanctuaries. It argues that certain urban societies are more robust than others…
Des villes et des hommes : enquête sur un mode de vie planétaire
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C'est un fait nouveau : depuis 2011, plus de la moitié de l'humanité vit dans les villes. L'espèce humaine est devenue une espèce urbaine, pour le meilleur et pour le pire : pour…
City and soul in divided societies
Abstract from the publisher: In this unique book Scott A. Bollens combines personal narrative with academic analysis in telling the story of inflammatory nationalistic and ethnic conflict in nine cities – Jerusalem, Beirut, Belfast,…
Henri Lefebvre on space : Architecture, urban research, and the production of theory
Abstract from the publisher : In this innovative work, Łukasz Stanek frames a uniquely contextual appreciation of Henri Lefebvre’s idea that space is a social product. Stanek explicitly confronts both the philosophical and the empirical…
Urban maps : Instruments of narrative and interpretation in the city
Abstract from the publisher : This book concerns the city and the 'devices' that define the urban environment by their presence, representation or interpretation. The texts offer an interdisciplinary discourse and critique of the complex systems,…
La ville. Les entretiens d'Auxerre
Présentation par l'éditeur : Plus d’un humain sur deux vit en ville aujourd’hui, et souvent, ceux qui vivent à la campagne adoptent des comportements qui sont ceux des urbains. Il ne suffit pas de dire que le…
Barcelona : Architecture, city and society 1975-2015
Abstract from the publisher : Over the last twenty years Barcelona has reached the apex of its public appeal, and the time has come for a critical evaluation of its recent past. Barcelona is an emblematic example of how a European and Mediterranean…
São Paulo: Perspectives on the City and Cultural Production
Abstract from the publisher : David Foster brings an intense curiosity and lifelong familiarity to this unique examination of the cultural tapestry of São Paulo, the largest city in South America and the second largest in Latin America. …
Living in the endless city
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- The companion to Phaidon’s popular The Endless City, with the same mix of smart writing, remarkable photographs and incisive data on the field of urban development and its related disciplines
- An authoritative…
Chinatowns in a transnational world : Myths and realities of an urban phenomenon
Abstract from the publisher : This book explores the history, the reality, and the complex fantasy of American and European Chinatowns and traces the patterns of transnational travel and traffic between China, South East Asia, Europe, and the…
Remaking Chinese urban form : Modernity, scarcity and space, 1949-2005
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In this pioneering study of contemporary Chinese urban form, Duanfang Lu provides an analysis of how Chinese society constructed itself through the making and remaking of its built environment. Drawing on archival…