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Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Language
English
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Description
"Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem."--Amazon....
Author
Series
Urban Institute paper volume 1-02
Publisher
Urban Institute
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Language
English
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Description
"The city of the future, we are told, is the smart city. By seamlessly integrating information and communication technologies into the provision and management of public services, such cities will enhance opportunity and bolster civic engagement. Smarter cities will bring in new revenue while saving money. They will be more of everything that a twenty-first century urban planner, citizen, and elected official wants: more efficient, more sustainable,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The community of Lafayette Park in downtown Detroit, built in the late 1950s and early 1960s, demonstrates a workable solution for urban sprawl. Lafayette Park is listed in the National Register of Historic Places because of the excellence of its urban design and the quality of its community planning. Mies van der Rohe created a neighborhood of townhouses, courthouses, and apartments that has been called "nothing less than a working model for future...
10) Radiant city
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Surrealist filmmaker Gary Burns (Waydowntown, A problem with fear) joins journalist Jim Brown on an outing to the burbs. Amidst the fresh foundations of monster homes, the two explore the dark side of suburbia and create a provocative reflection on why we live the way we do. Playing off sitcoms and reality TV, Burns and Brown turn the documentary genre inside out, crafting a vivid account of life in The late suburban age.
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli International Publications
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A presentation of micro-scaled contemporary residences that demonstrate domesticity can be both compact and beautiful. Urban areas across the globe are experiencing a renaissance, with once-forgotten downtowns and neighborhoods becoming increasingly popular for redevelopment. The houses, apartments, and multifamily buildings and developments included make great architecture out of challenging locations and narrow sites. The projects range from a...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
If you live in a city (and every year, more and more Americans do), you've seen firsthand how gentrification has transformed our surroundings. Gentrification has so altered the way cities look, feel, cost, and even smell to such an extent that it's hard to imagine that it could ever have been otherwise. Over the last few years, journalists, policymakers, critics, and historians have all tried to explain just what it is that happens when new money...
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"A visionary in responsible urban development and renewal presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the development of cities from the beginning of civilization to the present, revealing the conditions that gave rise to the happiest communities, and the qualities that define them,"--NoveList.
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Language
English
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Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic...
20) Atlas of cities
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
More than half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to three-quarters by 2050. Urbanization is a global phenomenon, but the way cities are developing, the experience of city life, and the prospects for the future of cities vary widely from region to region. The Atlas of Cities presents a unique taxonomy of cities that looks at different aspects of their physical, economic, social, and political structures;...
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