Global City Blues

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Global City Blues

Global City Blues written by Daniel Solomon and has been published by Shearwater Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Architecture categories.

"Much of the architecture and town planning of the past fifty years has been based on an unsubstantiated optimism about the promise of modernity. In our rush to embrace the future, we invented new ways of building that rejected the past and sent people headlong into a placeless limbo where they are isolated from each other and cut off from such basic experiences of location as weather and the time of day. In [this book], renowned architect Daniel Solomon presents a perceptive overview and insightful assessment of how the power and seductiveness of modernist ideals led us on this wayward path. Through a series of independent but linked essays, he takes the reader on a personal expedition, introducing people, places, and ideas that have shaped thinking about planning and building and that laid the foundation for his beliefs about the world we inhabit and the kind of world we should strive to create. Solomon discussess alternatives to modernist orthodoxy, including the ideas and precepts of New Urbanism, a reform movement he helped found that has risen to prominence in the past decade. These alternatives offer a vital counterbalance to the forces of sprawl, urban disintegration, and placelessness that have so transformed the contemporary landscape"--Bookjacket.

Model City Blues

Model City Blues written by Mandi Isaacs Jackson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-18 with History categories.

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.

Relocating Global Cities

Relocating Global Cities written by M Mark Amen and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-04 with Political Science categories.

Drawing on eight case studies from key cities on the periphery of global cities literature, Relocating Global Cities argues that all cities are globalizing in important ways. Case studies of Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Bangkok, Manila, Tampa, Sydney, Brussels, and Caracas provide the basis for an alternative theoretical approach to global city formation. Reconciling a market-based understanding and an agency-based understanding of global cities, this book proposes that globalization and cities are mutually constituted by the global political economy engaging with transnational and local agents. The volume proposes an alternate theoretical approach to the literature of globalization while remaining grounded in concrete discussions of key cities. Its expert contributors reconcile the conflicting ways in which two dominant paradigms, one emphasizing market forces and the other the unique actions of individuals and groups, embody our understanding of global cities. This book will be of interest to students and researchers alike, and is a perfect complement to texts in Urban Studies and Globalization.

Planning Forum

Planning Forum written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with City planning categories.

Designer Builder

Designer Builder written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Architectural design categories.

New Urban News

New Urban News written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with City planning categories.

Big City Blues

Big City Blues written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Blues (Music) categories.

The Publishers Weekly

The Publishers Weekly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with American literature categories.

Sunshine Noir

Sunshine Noir written by Jim Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Collections categories.

A collection of works from the San Diego Writers Collective, a group of San Diego writers and artists. Emerging writers from San Diego and Tijuana are featured in these works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

Healing The Scar

Healing The Scar written by Hsing-Chih Lee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.