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Using philosophical works from ancient Greece to contemporary times, Philosophy and the city demonstrates both why philosophy matters to the city and how cities matter to philosophy. The collection addresses questions that remain central to urban planning and everyday urban life, such as, What is a city? What does it mean to be a good citizen? By bringing various(...)
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Using philosophical works from ancient Greece to contemporary times, Philosophy and the city demonstrates both why philosophy matters to the city and how cities matter to philosophy. The collection addresses questions that remain central to urban planning and everyday urban life, such as, What is a city? What does it mean to be a good citizen? By bringing various(...)
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Philosophy and the city: classic to contemporary writings
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Using philosophical works from ancient Greece to contemporary times, Philosophy and the city demonstrates both why philosophy matters to the city and how cities matter to philosophy. The collection addresses questions that remain central to urban planning and everyday urban life, such as, What is a city? What does it mean to be a good citizen? By bringing various perspectives together, Sharon M. Meagher provides readers the opportunity to better understand key philosophical debates concerning not only social and political philosophy but also place and identity formation, aesthetics, philosophy of race and diversity, and environmental philosophy.
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Using philosophical works from ancient Greece to contemporary times, Philosophy and the city demonstrates both why philosophy matters to the city and how cities matter to philosophy. The collection addresses questions that remain central to urban planning and everyday urban life, such as, What is a city? What does it mean to be a good citizen? By bringing various perspectives together, Sharon M. Meagher provides readers the opportunity to better understand key philosophical debates concerning not only social and political philosophy but also place and identity formation, aesthetics, philosophy of race and diversity, and environmental philosophy.
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January 2008, New York
January 2008, New York
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Model city blues
Model city blues
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Model City Blues tells the story of how regular people, facing a changing city landscape, fought for their own model of the �ideal city� by creating grassroots plans for urban renewal. Filled with vivid descriptions of significant moments in a protracted struggle, it offers a street-level account of organized resistance to institutional plans to transform New Haven,(...)
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Model City Blues tells the story of how regular people, facing a changing city landscape, fought for their own model of the �ideal city� by creating grassroots plans for urban renewal. Filled with vivid descriptions of significant moments in a protracted struggle, it offers a street-level account of organized resistance to institutional plans to transform New Haven,(...)
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Model City Blues tells the story of how regular people, facing a changing city landscape, fought for their own model of the �ideal city� by creating grassroots plans for urban renewal. Filled with vivid descriptions of significant moments in a protracted struggle, it offers a street-level account of organized resistance to institutional plans to transform New Haven, Connecticut, in the 1960s. Anchored in the physical spaces and political struggles of the city, it brings back to center stage the individuals and groups who demanded that their voices be heard. By reexamining the converging class- and race-based movements of 1960s New Haven, Mandi Jackson helps to explain the city�s present-day economic and political struggles. More broadly, by closely analyzing particular sites of resistance in New Haven, Model City Blues employs multiple academic disciplines to redefine and reimagine the roles of everyday city spaces in building social movements and creating urban landscapes.
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Model City Blues tells the story of how regular people, facing a changing city landscape, fought for their own model of the �ideal city� by creating grassroots plans for urban renewal. Filled with vivid descriptions of significant moments in a protracted struggle, it offers a street-level account of organized resistance to institutional plans to transform New Haven, Connecticut, in the 1960s. Anchored in the physical spaces and political struggles of the city, it brings back to center stage the individuals and groups who demanded that their voices be heard. By reexamining the converging class- and race-based movements of 1960s New Haven, Mandi Jackson helps to explain the city�s present-day economic and political struggles. More broadly, by closely analyzing particular sites of resistance in New Haven, Model City Blues employs multiple academic disciplines to redefine and reimagine the roles of everyday city spaces in building social movements and creating urban landscapes.
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May 2008, Philadelphia
May 2008, Philadelphia
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Pourquoi marchons-nous de moins en moins? Quelle influence a eu l'aménagement urbain sur le déclin de la marche dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, principalement en Amérique du Nord? Quelles sont les conséquences de la sédentarité sur la santé et la vie sociale? Pour une ville qui marche tente de répondre à ces questions en offrant une nouvelle vision de(...)
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Pourquoi marchons-nous de moins en moins? Quelle influence a eu l'aménagement urbain sur le déclin de la marche dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, principalement en Amérique du Nord? Quelles sont les conséquences de la sédentarité sur la santé et la vie sociale? Pour une ville qui marche tente de répondre à ces questions en offrant une nouvelle vision de(...)
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Pour une ville qui marche: aménagement urbain et santé
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Pourquoi marchons-nous de moins en moins? Quelle influence a eu l'aménagement urbain sur le déclin de la marche dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, principalement en Amérique du Nord? Quelles sont les conséquences de la sédentarité sur la santé et la vie sociale? Pour une ville qui marche tente de répondre à ces questions en offrant une nouvelle vision de l'aménegement urbain centrée sur le piéton plutôt que sur l'automobile, de façon à rendre la ville plus conviviale et plus saine.
Pour une ville qui marche: aménagement urbain et santé
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Pourquoi marchons-nous de moins en moins? Quelle influence a eu l'aménagement urbain sur le déclin de la marche dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, principalement en Amérique du Nord? Quelles sont les conséquences de la sédentarité sur la santé et la vie sociale? Pour une ville qui marche tente de répondre à ces questions en offrant une nouvelle vision de l'aménegement urbain centrée sur le piéton plutôt que sur l'automobile, de façon à rendre la ville plus conviviale et plus saine.
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February 2008, Montréal
February 2008, Montréal
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It's a truism of the age of globalization that where we live doesn't matter - we can work just as easily from a ski chalet in Aspen as in a house in Provence or an office in Chicago. Wrong, argues Richard Florida. Globalization may open up more of the world to us, but it also makes place a key factor in life. Based on more than twenty years of research, 'Who's yor City?'(...)
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It's a truism of the age of globalization that where we live doesn't matter - we can work just as easily from a ski chalet in Aspen as in a house in Provence or an office in Chicago. Wrong, argues Richard Florida. Globalization may open up more of the world to us, but it also makes place a key factor in life. Based on more than twenty years of research, 'Who's yor City?'(...)
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Who's your City? How the creative economy is making where to live the most important decision of your life
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It's a truism of the age of globalization that where we live doesn't matter - we can work just as easily from a ski chalet in Aspen as in a house in Provence or an office in Chicago. Wrong, argues Richard Florida. Globalization may open up more of the world to us, but it also makes place a key factor in life. Based on more than twenty years of research, 'Who's yor City?' shows how a new economic unit - the mega-region- is the real driver of the global economy explains why mega-regions are diverging not only in economic specialization but even in personality.
Who's your City? How the creative economy is making where to live the most important decision of your life
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It's a truism of the age of globalization that where we live doesn't matter - we can work just as easily from a ski chalet in Aspen as in a house in Provence or an office in Chicago. Wrong, argues Richard Florida. Globalization may open up more of the world to us, but it also makes place a key factor in life. Based on more than twenty years of research, 'Who's yor City?' shows how a new economic unit - the mega-region- is the real driver of the global economy explains why mega-regions are diverging not only in economic specialization but even in personality.
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March 2008, New York
March 2008, New York
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A radical reconceptualization of modernism, this book traces the appearance of the modern artist to the Paris of the 1830s and links the emergence of an enduring modernist aesthetic to the fleeting forms of popular culture.
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A radical reconceptualization of modernism, this book traces the appearance of the modern artist to the Paris of the 1830s and links the emergence of an enduring modernist aesthetic to the fleeting forms of popular culture.
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Popular Bohemia: modernism and urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris
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A radical reconceptualization of modernism, this book traces the appearance of the modern artist to the Paris of the 1830s and links the emergence of an enduring modernist aesthetic to the fleeting forms of popular culture.
Popular Bohemia: modernism and urban culture in nineteenth-century Paris
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A radical reconceptualization of modernism, this book traces the appearance of the modern artist to the Paris of the 1830s and links the emergence of an enduring modernist aesthetic to the fleeting forms of popular culture.
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March 2008, Boston
March 2008, Boston
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Welcome to Blubberland--a world of quadruple-garaged mansions, vast malls, gated communities, stretch limos, and posh resorts. Blubberland is a place, but it is also a state of mind: we expect to be happy (trophy house, SUV in the driveway, home entertainment system, pension fund, cosmetic surgery), but in fact we've grown increasingly bloated, bored, and miserable. In(...)
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Welcome to Blubberland--a world of quadruple-garaged mansions, vast malls, gated communities, stretch limos, and posh resorts. Blubberland is a place, but it is also a state of mind: we expect to be happy (trophy house, SUV in the driveway, home entertainment system, pension fund, cosmetic surgery), but in fact we've grown increasingly bloated, bored, and miserable. In(...)
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Blubberland: the dangers of happiness
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Welcome to Blubberland--a world of quadruple-garaged mansions, vast malls, gated communities, stretch limos, and posh resorts. Blubberland is a place, but it is also a state of mind: we expect to be happy (trophy house, SUV in the driveway, home entertainment system, pension fund, cosmetic surgery), but in fact we've grown increasingly bloated, bored, and miserable. In Blubberland, award-winning critic Elizabeth Farrelly looks at our "superfluous superfluity," our huge eco-footprint, and asks why we find it so hard to abandon habits we know to be destructive. Why can't we build human-scale cities, design meaningful public spaces, eat reasonable meals, and stop assaulting nature? Farrelly, trained as an architect, begins this story with architecture, urban sprawl, and housing, but she does not end there. She also looks at "affluenza," childhood asthma, diabetes, addiction, beauty, ugliness, narcissism, climate change, mega-churches, big box retailers, sustainability, depression, anorexia, and the links that collect all of these issues under the same roof--the roof, as it were, of the McMansion. As "big" becomes more and more pervasive, and success is seen in increasingly measurable and material terms, the goal of happiness jeopardizes our survival. Blubberland is a smart, thoughtful, and stylish argument for turning things around.
Blubberland: the dangers of happiness
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Welcome to Blubberland--a world of quadruple-garaged mansions, vast malls, gated communities, stretch limos, and posh resorts. Blubberland is a place, but it is also a state of mind: we expect to be happy (trophy house, SUV in the driveway, home entertainment system, pension fund, cosmetic surgery), but in fact we've grown increasingly bloated, bored, and miserable. In Blubberland, award-winning critic Elizabeth Farrelly looks at our "superfluous superfluity," our huge eco-footprint, and asks why we find it so hard to abandon habits we know to be destructive. Why can't we build human-scale cities, design meaningful public spaces, eat reasonable meals, and stop assaulting nature? Farrelly, trained as an architect, begins this story with architecture, urban sprawl, and housing, but she does not end there. She also looks at "affluenza," childhood asthma, diabetes, addiction, beauty, ugliness, narcissism, climate change, mega-churches, big box retailers, sustainability, depression, anorexia, and the links that collect all of these issues under the same roof--the roof, as it were, of the McMansion. As "big" becomes more and more pervasive, and success is seen in increasingly measurable and material terms, the goal of happiness jeopardizes our survival. Blubberland is a smart, thoughtful, and stylish argument for turning things around.
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March 2008, Cambridge, London
March 2008, Cambridge, London
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Contributions by Agnes Förster, Alain Thierstein, Christian Kruse, Simin Davoudi, Maurits Schaafsma, Wilhelm Natrup, Reinhard Frei, Wil Zonneveld, Heiri Leuthold, Ursula Stein, Henrik Schultz, Julian Petrin, Remo Burkhard, Eckart Lange, Urs Primas, Meret Wandeler, Beatrix Bencseky. For the majority of politicians, planners, institutions, and residents the features of(...)
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Contributions by Agnes Förster, Alain Thierstein, Christian Kruse, Simin Davoudi, Maurits Schaafsma, Wilhelm Natrup, Reinhard Frei, Wil Zonneveld, Heiri Leuthold, Ursula Stein, Henrik Schultz, Julian Petrin, Remo Burkhard, Eckart Lange, Urs Primas, Meret Wandeler, Beatrix Bencseky. For the majority of politicians, planners, institutions, and residents the features of(...)
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The image and the region - making mega-city regions visible!
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Contributions by Agnes Förster, Alain Thierstein, Christian Kruse, Simin Davoudi, Maurits Schaafsma, Wilhelm Natrup, Reinhard Frei, Wil Zonneveld, Heiri Leuthold, Ursula Stein, Henrik Schultz, Julian Petrin, Remo Burkhard, Eckart Lange, Urs Primas, Meret Wandeler, Beatrix Bencseky. For the majority of politicians, planners, institutions, and residents the features of mega-city regions remain invisible. They are scarcely charted; there are no concepts for representing them or any direct sensory understanding of them in everyday life. The book is based on the understanding that the visual depiction of mega-city regions is fundamental to identifying, acting, and developing within existing concentrations of urban populations. Through essays from various disciplines the book approaches the phenomenon and discusses the necessity to visualize mega-city regions.
The image and the region - making mega-city regions visible!
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Contributions by Agnes Förster, Alain Thierstein, Christian Kruse, Simin Davoudi, Maurits Schaafsma, Wilhelm Natrup, Reinhard Frei, Wil Zonneveld, Heiri Leuthold, Ursula Stein, Henrik Schultz, Julian Petrin, Remo Burkhard, Eckart Lange, Urs Primas, Meret Wandeler, Beatrix Bencseky. For the majority of politicians, planners, institutions, and residents the features of mega-city regions remain invisible. They are scarcely charted; there are no concepts for representing them or any direct sensory understanding of them in everyday life. The book is based on the understanding that the visual depiction of mega-city regions is fundamental to identifying, acting, and developing within existing concentrations of urban populations. Through essays from various disciplines the book approaches the phenomenon and discusses the necessity to visualize mega-city regions.
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February 2008, Baden
February 2008, Baden
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Histoire de la ville
Histoire de la ville
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Première édition en 1983
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Histoire de la ville
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May 1995, Marseille
May 1995, Marseille
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A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs(...)
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A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs(...)
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The death and life of great American cities
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A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity. Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and always keenly detailed, Jane Jacobs's monumental work provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.
The death and life of great American cities
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A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity. Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and always keenly detailed, Jane Jacobs's monumental work provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.
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December 1992, New York
December 1992, New York
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City speculations
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Originally an exhibition at the Queens Museum, 'City Specualtions' includes projects by: Balch & Baratloo; Diller + Scofidio; Keller Easterling; the Environmental Simulation Center; Andrea Kahn; Ana Marton; Brian(...)
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Originally an exhibition at the Queens Museum, 'City Specualtions' includes projects by: Balch & Baratloo; Diller + Scofidio; Keller Easterling; the Environmental Simulation Center; Andrea Kahn; Ana Marton; Brian(...)
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Originally an exhibition at the Queens Museum, 'City Specualtions' includes projects by: Balch & Baratloo; Diller + Scofidio; Keller Easterling; the Environmental Simulation Center; Andrea Kahn; Ana Marton; Brian McGrath; Kyong Park; Richard Plunz; RAAUm; Mark Robbins; Newark Metametrics; Wellington Reiter; Mierle Ukeles; and Camilio Vergara.
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Originally an exhibition at the Queens Museum, 'City Specualtions' includes projects by: Balch & Baratloo; Diller + Scofidio; Keller Easterling; the Environmental Simulation Center; Andrea Kahn; Ana Marton; Brian McGrath; Kyong Park; Richard Plunz; RAAUm; Mark Robbins; Newark Metametrics; Wellington Reiter; Mierle Ukeles; and Camilio Vergara.
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April 1996, New York
April 1996, New York
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
