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"Big plans : the allure and folly of urban design" springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the role of rationality in public life. Inspired by the architectural and urban criticism of such writers as Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and John Brinckerhoff Jackson, Kolson adopts a user's perspective on issues of urban design, an approach that(...)
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"Big plans : the allure and folly of urban design" springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the role of rationality in public life. Inspired by the architectural and urban criticism of such writers as Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and John Brinckerhoff Jackson, Kolson adopts a user's perspective on issues of urban design, an approach that(...)
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Big plans : the allure and folly of urban design
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"Big plans : the allure and folly of urban design" springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the role of rationality in public life. Inspired by the architectural and urban criticism of such writers as Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and John Brinckerhoff Jackson, Kolson adopts a user's perspective on issues of urban design, an approach that highlights both the futility of social engineering and the resilience of the human spirit.
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"Big plans : the allure and folly of urban design" springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the role of rationality in public life. Inspired by the architectural and urban criticism of such writers as Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and John Brinckerhoff Jackson, Kolson adopts a user's perspective on issues of urban design, an approach that highlights both the futility of social engineering and the resilience of the human spirit.
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November 2003, Baltimore
November 2003, Baltimore
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Rotterdam's history has left it particularly marked by movement and transit. Construction of a modern transport infrastructure began before 1940, and continued with renewed vigour during and after the postwar reconstruction. The cityscape is defined by waterways, bridges, streets, arterial canals, avenues and a rhomboid motorway system. The city serves as a good case(...)
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Rotterdam's history has left it particularly marked by movement and transit. Construction of a modern transport infrastructure began before 1940, and continued with renewed vigour during and after the postwar reconstruction. The cityscape is defined by waterways, bridges, streets, arterial canals, avenues and a rhomboid motorway system. The city serves as a good case(...)
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In transit : mobility, city culture and urban development in Rotterdam
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Rotterdam's history has left it particularly marked by movement and transit. Construction of a modern transport infrastructure began before 1940, and continued with renewed vigour during and after the postwar reconstruction. The cityscape is defined by waterways, bridges, streets, arterial canals, avenues and a rhomboid motorway system. The city serves as a good case study and illustration of the relationship between mobility and urban development. This book uses word and image to examine the social significance of mobility. The authors draw on Rotterdam examples to illustrate the link between mobility and urban development.
In transit : mobility, city culture and urban development in Rotterdam
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Rotterdam's history has left it particularly marked by movement and transit. Construction of a modern transport infrastructure began before 1940, and continued with renewed vigour during and after the postwar reconstruction. The cityscape is defined by waterways, bridges, streets, arterial canals, avenues and a rhomboid motorway system. The city serves as a good case study and illustration of the relationship between mobility and urban development. This book uses word and image to examine the social significance of mobility. The authors draw on Rotterdam examples to illustrate the link between mobility and urban development.
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August 2003, Rotterdam
August 2003, Rotterdam
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Through magazine articles and through his previous book, "The Geography of Nowhere", James Howard Kunstler has become one of the foremost decriers of the blighted urban landscape of the United States. Now, in this new sequel to the earlier book, Kunstler moves from description to prescription. The villains, Kunstler says, are zoning laws, real estate taxes, modernist(...)
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Through magazine articles and through his previous book, "The Geography of Nowhere", James Howard Kunstler has become one of the foremost decriers of the blighted urban landscape of the United States. Now, in this new sequel to the earlier book, Kunstler moves from description to prescription. The villains, Kunstler says, are zoning laws, real estate taxes, modernist(...)
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Home from nowhere : remaking our everyday world for the twenty-first century
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Through magazine articles and through his previous book, "The Geography of Nowhere", James Howard Kunstler has become one of the foremost decriers of the blighted urban landscape of the United States. Now, in this new sequel to the earlier book, Kunstler moves from description to prescription. The villains, Kunstler says, are zoning laws, real estate taxes, modernist architecture, and, particularly, the automobile. The solutions include multi-use zoning districts, car-free urban cores, revised tax laws, Beaux-Arts design principles, and, in particular, the neo-traditionalist school of architecture and city planning known as "new urbanism." Kunstler's larger goal is a return to a saner urban geography and, with it, to a saner way of life.
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Through magazine articles and through his previous book, "The Geography of Nowhere", James Howard Kunstler has become one of the foremost decriers of the blighted urban landscape of the United States. Now, in this new sequel to the earlier book, Kunstler moves from description to prescription. The villains, Kunstler says, are zoning laws, real estate taxes, modernist architecture, and, particularly, the automobile. The solutions include multi-use zoning districts, car-free urban cores, revised tax laws, Beaux-Arts design principles, and, in particular, the neo-traditionalist school of architecture and city planning known as "new urbanism." Kunstler's larger goal is a return to a saner urban geography and, with it, to a saner way of life.
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January 1998, New York
January 1998, New York
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Urban Theory
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Urban encounters
Urban encounters
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Liggett's "encounters" with the urban are sequences of images and text that combine the joy of observing with the pleasure of making connections. For Liggett, this entails recognizing both beauty and danger. Alternately complementing and complicating her text, Liggett's photographs capture the small details-the gestures, glances, and reflections-that together compose the(...)
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Liggett's "encounters" with the urban are sequences of images and text that combine the joy of observing with the pleasure of making connections. For Liggett, this entails recognizing both beauty and danger. Alternately complementing and complicating her text, Liggett's photographs capture the small details-the gestures, glances, and reflections-that together compose the(...)
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Urban encounters
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Liggett's "encounters" with the urban are sequences of images and text that combine the joy of observing with the pleasure of making connections. For Liggett, this entails recognizing both beauty and danger. Alternately complementing and complicating her text, Liggett's photographs capture the small details-the gestures, glances, and reflections-that together compose the urban experience. As a whole, "Urban encounters" reimagines the city as a site of profound engagement with life.
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Liggett's "encounters" with the urban are sequences of images and text that combine the joy of observing with the pleasure of making connections. For Liggett, this entails recognizing both beauty and danger. Alternately complementing and complicating her text, Liggett's photographs capture the small details-the gestures, glances, and reflections-that together compose the urban experience. As a whole, "Urban encounters" reimagines the city as a site of profound engagement with life.
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January 2003, Minneapolis / London
January 2003, Minneapolis / London
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The urban revolution
The urban revolution
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Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre’s first sustained critique of urban society and is widely considered a foundational book in contemporary thinking about the city. This first English edition, translated by Robert Bononno, makes available to a broad audience Lefebvre’s sophisticated insights into the urban dimensions of modern life.(...)
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Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre’s first sustained critique of urban society and is widely considered a foundational book in contemporary thinking about the city. This first English edition, translated by Robert Bononno, makes available to a broad audience Lefebvre’s sophisticated insights into the urban dimensions of modern life.(...)
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The urban revolution
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Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre’s first sustained critique of urban society and is widely considered a foundational book in contemporary thinking about the city. This first English edition, translated by Robert Bononno, makes available to a broad audience Lefebvre’s sophisticated insights into the urban dimensions of modern life. Foreword by Neil Smith.
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Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre’s first sustained critique of urban society and is widely considered a foundational book in contemporary thinking about the city. This first English edition, translated by Robert Bononno, makes available to a broad audience Lefebvre’s sophisticated insights into the urban dimensions of modern life. Foreword by Neil Smith.
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March 2003, Minneapolis / London
March 2003, Minneapolis / London
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This book investigates the characteristics of today's built environment: no longer simply a city but increasingly large conurbations made up of a number of development clusters, linked by transport routes. The diffusion of the once compact city into a city web, the 'meta city' is mirrored by changes in society from communities with strong social cohesion and interest in(...)
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This book investigates the characteristics of today's built environment: no longer simply a city but increasingly large conurbations made up of a number of development clusters, linked by transport routes. The diffusion of the once compact city into a city web, the 'meta city' is mirrored by changes in society from communities with strong social cohesion and interest in(...)
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Cities without cities : an interpretation of the Zwischenstadt
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This book investigates the characteristics of today's built environment: no longer simply a city but increasingly large conurbations made up of a number of development clusters, linked by transport routes. The diffusion of the once compact city into a city web, the 'meta city' is mirrored by changes in society from communities with strong social cohesion and interest in their towns and cities to individuals pursing their own goals, with global social links and little interest in their own town or city other than the quality of their personal space. The account is complex and on a number of levels; social, philosophical, economic and environmental. The difficulties in managing or even controlling the city web, divided arbitrarily into areas of limited size and political power, are enormous. Areas compete with each other rather than co-operate. The book provides a better understanding of this new type of urban form and argues for a change in planning systems for better management.
Cities without cities : an interpretation of the Zwischenstadt
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This book investigates the characteristics of today's built environment: no longer simply a city but increasingly large conurbations made up of a number of development clusters, linked by transport routes. The diffusion of the once compact city into a city web, the 'meta city' is mirrored by changes in society from communities with strong social cohesion and interest in their towns and cities to individuals pursing their own goals, with global social links and little interest in their own town or city other than the quality of their personal space. The account is complex and on a number of levels; social, philosophical, economic and environmental. The difficulties in managing or even controlling the city web, divided arbitrarily into areas of limited size and political power, are enormous. Areas compete with each other rather than co-operate. The book provides a better understanding of this new type of urban form and argues for a change in planning systems for better management.
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November 2003, London
November 2003, London
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To celebrate the centenary of the first garden city at Letchworth, the Town and Country Planning Association has iniciated the republication in facsimile form of the very scarce original first edition of To-Morrow. It is accompanied by a running scholarly commentary on the text, and by a newly-written editorial introduction and postscript, jointly written by three(...)
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To celebrate the centenary of the first garden city at Letchworth, the Town and Country Planning Association has iniciated the republication in facsimile form of the very scarce original first edition of To-Morrow. It is accompanied by a running scholarly commentary on the text, and by a newly-written editorial introduction and postscript, jointly written by three(...)
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September 2003, London, New York
September 2003, London, New York
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To-morrow : a peaceful path to real reform
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To celebrate the centenary of the first garden city at Letchworth, the Town and Country Planning Association has iniciated the republication in facsimile form of the very scarce original first edition of To-Morrow. It is accompanied by a running scholarly commentary on the text, and by a newly-written editorial introduction and postscript, jointly written by three commentators on Howard's life and work.
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To celebrate the centenary of the first garden city at Letchworth, the Town and Country Planning Association has iniciated the republication in facsimile form of the very scarce original first edition of To-Morrow. It is accompanied by a running scholarly commentary on the text, and by a newly-written editorial introduction and postscript, jointly written by three commentators on Howard's life and work.
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September 2003, London, New York
September 2003, London, New York
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James and Nancy Duncan look at how the aesthetics of physical landscapes are fully enmeshed in producing the American class system. Focusing on an archetypal upper class American suburb--Bedford in Westchester County, NY--they show how the physical presentation of a place carries with it a range of markers of inclusion and exclusion.
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James and Nancy Duncan look at how the aesthetics of physical landscapes are fully enmeshed in producing the American class system. Focusing on an archetypal upper class American suburb--Bedford in Westchester County, NY--they show how the physical presentation of a place carries with it a range of markers of inclusion and exclusion.
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Landscapes of privilege : the politics of the aesthetic in an American suburb
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James and Nancy Duncan look at how the aesthetics of physical landscapes are fully enmeshed in producing the American class system. Focusing on an archetypal upper class American suburb--Bedford in Westchester County, NY--they show how the physical presentation of a place carries with it a range of markers of inclusion and exclusion.
Landscapes of privilege : the politics of the aesthetic in an American suburb
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James and Nancy Duncan look at how the aesthetics of physical landscapes are fully enmeshed in producing the American class system. Focusing on an archetypal upper class American suburb--Bedford in Westchester County, NY--they show how the physical presentation of a place carries with it a range of markers of inclusion and exclusion.
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December 2003, London
December 2003, London
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This extensively revised and updated Second Edition features 50 writings (of which 41 are new) organized into 10 sections that explore themes such as symbolic economies and new urban spaces; the culture industry; culture and technologies; everyday lives; contesting identity; boundaries and transgressions; utopias and dystopias; and possible urban futures.
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This extensively revised and updated Second Edition features 50 writings (of which 41 are new) organized into 10 sections that explore themes such as symbolic economies and new urban spaces; the culture industry; culture and technologies; everyday lives; contesting identity; boundaries and transgressions; utopias and dystopias; and possible urban futures.
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The city cultures reader, second edition
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This extensively revised and updated Second Edition features 50 writings (of which 41 are new) organized into 10 sections that explore themes such as symbolic economies and new urban spaces; the culture industry; culture and technologies; everyday lives; contesting identity; boundaries and transgressions; utopias and dystopias; and possible urban futures.
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This extensively revised and updated Second Edition features 50 writings (of which 41 are new) organized into 10 sections that explore themes such as symbolic economies and new urban spaces; the culture industry; culture and technologies; everyday lives; contesting identity; boundaries and transgressions; utopias and dystopias; and possible urban futures.
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December 2003, London
December 2003, London
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L’ouvrage aborde toutes les notions de l’urbanisme et se veut : Exhaustif : l’ouvrage s’est délibérément affranchi d’une conception restrictive de l’urbanisme, pour intégrer des notions désormais aussi fondamentales que l’aménagement du territoire et la protection de l’environnement, tout en abordant les nombreux mécanismes administratifs nés de l’enchevêtrement des(...)
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L’ouvrage aborde toutes les notions de l’urbanisme et se veut : Exhaustif : l’ouvrage s’est délibérément affranchi d’une conception restrictive de l’urbanisme, pour intégrer des notions désormais aussi fondamentales que l’aménagement du territoire et la protection de l’environnement, tout en abordant les nombreux mécanismes administratifs nés de l’enchevêtrement des(...)
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Dictionnaire de l'urbanisme : 800 mots, actes et procédures
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L’ouvrage aborde toutes les notions de l’urbanisme et se veut : Exhaustif : l’ouvrage s’est délibérément affranchi d’une conception restrictive de l’urbanisme, pour intégrer des notions désormais aussi fondamentales que l’aménagement du territoire et la protection de l’environnement, tout en abordant les nombreux mécanismes administratifs nés de l’enchevêtrement des législations. Le dictionnaire propose ainsi plus de 800 entrées thématiques. Pratique : une rubrique « doctrine » renvoie aux travaux faisant autorité dans le domaine de la notion développée. En outre, de nombreux renvois invitent, à la fin de chaque article, à se renseigner sur les thèmes connexes adéquats appropriés. Rationnel : chaque terme est restitué dans son contexte historique, économique, fiscal et politique. Le régime juridique attaché à chaque notion est clairement expliqué, avec la référence précise aux textes en vigueur et à la jurisprudence la plus récente.
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L’ouvrage aborde toutes les notions de l’urbanisme et se veut : Exhaustif : l’ouvrage s’est délibérément affranchi d’une conception restrictive de l’urbanisme, pour intégrer des notions désormais aussi fondamentales que l’aménagement du territoire et la protection de l’environnement, tout en abordant les nombreux mécanismes administratifs nés de l’enchevêtrement des législations. Le dictionnaire propose ainsi plus de 800 entrées thématiques. Pratique : une rubrique « doctrine » renvoie aux travaux faisant autorité dans le domaine de la notion développée. En outre, de nombreux renvois invitent, à la fin de chaque article, à se renseigner sur les thèmes connexes adéquats appropriés. Rationnel : chaque terme est restitué dans son contexte historique, économique, fiscal et politique. Le régime juridique attaché à chaque notion est clairement expliqué, avec la référence précise aux textes en vigueur et à la jurisprudence la plus récente.
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May 2003, Paris
May 2003, Paris
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
