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Investigating three case studies, that involve economic redevelopment, historic preservation, and redistricting in San Diego, New York, and Los Angeles, Saito illustrates the enduring presence of racial considerations and inequality in public policy. Individuals and groups who may sincerely characterize themselves as free of racial prejudice still participate, though(...)
The politics of exclusion: the failure of race-neutral policies in urban America
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Investigating three case studies, that involve economic redevelopment, historic preservation, and redistricting in San Diego, New York, and Los Angeles, Saito illustrates the enduring presence of racial considerations and inequality in public policy. Individuals and groups who may sincerely characterize themselves as free of racial prejudice still participate, though perhaps unwittingly, in practices that have racialized outcomes.
Urban Theory
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Architect Alexander D'Hooghe believes urban design has lost its way. Once among the most articulate and avant-garde of disciplines, the field now lacks, he suggests, the confidence necessary to address its most critical challenge sprawl. In this publication, the author argues that architecture and urbanism must boldly intervene in city planning and growth management.
The Liberal monument: urban design and the late modern project
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Architect Alexander D'Hooghe believes urban design has lost its way. Once among the most articulate and avant-garde of disciplines, the field now lacks, he suggests, the confidence necessary to address its most critical challenge sprawl. In this publication, the author argues that architecture and urbanism must boldly intervene in city planning and growth management.
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In this publication trendy pragmatism coincides with the improvisation of jazz music. The result is a plan of action to constructively deal with disorder in urbanism. Improvisation acknowledges disorder and works with existing potentials. Improvisation means, therefore, to work with reality but at the same time, create reality.
Improvisations on urbanity: Trendy pragmatism in a climate of change
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In this publication trendy pragmatism coincides with the improvisation of jazz music. The result is a plan of action to constructively deal with disorder in urbanism. Improvisation acknowledges disorder and works with existing potentials. Improvisation means, therefore, to work with reality but at the same time, create reality.
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The New York 2030 notebook
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This book provides a diverse range of responses to New York's PlaNYC, the first strategic plan for the city since 1969 released by Mayor Bloomberg in 2007. The Notebook includes presentations by local policymakers explaining the approach to the plan and responses by local urban enthusiasts from a symposium held in November, 2007 by the Institute for Urban Design. These(...)
The New York 2030 notebook
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This book provides a diverse range of responses to New York's PlaNYC, the first strategic plan for the city since 1969 released by Mayor Bloomberg in 2007. The Notebook includes presentations by local policymakers explaining the approach to the plan and responses by local urban enthusiasts from a symposium held in November, 2007 by the Institute for Urban Design. These help to put the plan into some context, and precede a section of critical and analytical responses by prominent authors, designers, and theorists commissioned since. Contributors include Richard Sennett, Michael Sorkin, James Wines, Sharon Zukin, Marshall Berman, Winka Dubbeldam, Teddy Cruz, and Stephen Witherford alongside a number of other distinguished figures.
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Cities after the Fall of Communism traces the cultural reorientation of East European cities since 1989. Analyzing the architecture, commemorative practices, and urban planning of cities such as Lviv, Vilnius, and Odessa, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how history may be selectively re-imagined in light of present political and cultural realities. These(...)
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Cities at the fall of communism : reshaping cultural landscapes and European identity
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Cities after the Fall of Communism traces the cultural reorientation of East European cities since 1989. Analyzing the architecture, commemorative practices, and urban planning of cities such as Lviv, Vilnius, and Odessa, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how history may be selectively re-imagined in light of present political and cultural realities. These essays show that while East European cities gravitate nostalgically toward Habsburg, Baltic, Imperial Russian, and Germanic pasts, they are also embracing new urban identities grounded in ethnic-national, European, Western, and global contexts.
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Jennifer S. Light finds in the rise and fall of the American conservation movement a new understanding of the history of urban renewal in the United States. The author examines came to view America's urban landscapes as ecological communities requiring scientific management on par with forests and farms. This book brings together environmental and urban history to reveal(...)
The nature of cities : ecological visions and the American urban professions, 1920-1960
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Jennifer S. Light finds in the rise and fall of the American conservation movement a new understanding of the history of urban renewal in the United States. The author examines came to view America's urban landscapes as ecological communities requiring scientific management on par with forests and farms. This book brings together environmental and urban history to reveal how, over four decades, this ecological vision shaped the development of cities around the nation.
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«Peut-on faire en sorte que les dimensions physique, sociale et numérique soient mises au service d'une ville à la fois plus attentive à chacun, et plus familière à tous?»
La ville 2.0, complexe... et familière
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«Peut-on faire en sorte que les dimensions physique, sociale et numérique soient mises au service d'une ville à la fois plus attentive à chacun, et plus familière à tous?»
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This essay opens up multiple dimensions of the oncept from architectural, political, philosophical, and technological points of view. There is some historical analysis here, but the contributors are more focused on the future of public space under conditions of growing urbanization and democratic confusion. The added interest offered by non-academic work—visual art,(...)
Rites of way : the politics and poetics of public space
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This essay opens up multiple dimensions of the oncept from architectural, political, philosophical, and technological points of view. There is some historical analysis here, but the contributors are more focused on the future of public space under conditions of growing urbanization and democratic confusion. The added interest offered by non-academic work—visual art, fiction, poetry, and drama—is in part an admission that this is a topic too important to be left only to theorists. It also makes an implicit argument for the crucial role that art, not just public art, plays in a thriving public realm.
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Providing expert insight into the ways the nation's metropolitan areas are changing, this book explores the land use issues that affect quality of life and makes recommendations for reducing sprawl dependence on cars , encouraging sustainability, investing on infrastructure, availability of workforce housing, shopping and leadership in land use.
Changing metropolitan America: planning for a sustainable future
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Providing expert insight into the ways the nation's metropolitan areas are changing, this book explores the land use issues that affect quality of life and makes recommendations for reducing sprawl dependence on cars , encouraging sustainability, investing on infrastructure, availability of workforce housing, shopping and leadership in land use.
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"Faire la ville passante", telle est la déclaration militante de David Mangin, Grand Prix de l'urbanisme 2008, qui propose un avenir durable à nos agglomérations soumises à nombre de défis: réussir le vivre ensemble, lutter contre les discriminations, le réchauffement climatique, l'adaptation à la raréfaction des sources d'énergie, et surtout offrir du plaisir aux(...)
La ville passante : David Mangin, Grand Prix de l'urbanisme 2008
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"Faire la ville passante", telle est la déclaration militante de David Mangin, Grand Prix de l'urbanisme 2008, qui propose un avenir durable à nos agglomérations soumises à nombre de défis: réussir le vivre ensemble, lutter contre les discriminations, le réchauffement climatique, l'adaptation à la raréfaction des sources d'énergie, et surtout offrir du plaisir aux citadins. Les propos des trois "nominés" - François Ascher, socio-économiste, enseignant et chercheur, Nicolas Michelin, architecte urbaniste, et Laurent Théry, directeur général de la Samoa, société d'aménagement de la métropole Ouest-Atlantique - nous offrent des réflexions fortes et engagées pour agir en faveur d'une ville vivante, renouvelée et porteuse d'avenir.
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