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Author
Publisher
B2 Books, an Agate Imprint
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"In The Human City, internationally recognized urbanist Joel Kotkin challenges the conventional urban-planning wisdom that favors high-density, "pack-and-stack" strategies. By exploring the economic, social, and environmental benefits of decentralized, family-friendly alternatives, Kotkin concludes that while the word "suburbs" may be outdated, the concept is certainly not dead. Aside from those wealthy enough to own spacious urban homes, people forced...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This program looks at the role, character and functions of Australian cities with an emphasis on the State and Territory capitals. The first section shows the general features of these cities and then the main functions are examined. The importance of forms of transport to expansion of cities is shown together with discussion on the growth of cities and associated issues. Australia is one of the most urbanised nations on earth, and this program looks...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
For one hundred years, housing cooperatives in various sizes and shapes have been a positive part of the urban landscape of Washington, D.C. Co-ops first arose in the city in the 1920s. Building slowed during the Great Depression, but their numbers expanded after World War II. Conversions expanded their numbers, and the model thrived and became a vital part of the city's fabric. Local historian Steve McKevitt tells the stories of the architecture...
Publisher
Info 31 Productions
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
President of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce Richard Dodd hosts a talk with the Arlington Historical Society discussing the history and development of commercial areas within Arlington County from the 1920s to the 1990s. Recorded 15 October 1998.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
THIRD WARD TX - a documentary about community, art, and real estate. How do we bring back a once thriving community-one with a vibrant African American history and culture? What was good and positive and sustaining for the people who lived there? What would this look like now? Once change is in motion-how can we manage gentrification so that it doesn't drive out long-time residents? THIRD WARD TX introduces the artists and neighbors of Project Row...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A meditation on how America protects and overinvests in 'white space' and disinvests, surveils, and stereotypes in 'the Hood'; Cashin calls for abolition of these anti-Black processes and bold new investment to repair poor Black neighborhoods and our broken race relations"--
9) Downside Up
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
How does a dying working class town end up betting its future on art? With 80% of its downtown buildings closed, North Adams, Massachusetts united blue-collar locals with art world luminaries to transform economic failure into America's largest center for contemporary art, MASS MoCA. A film by North Adams native Nancy Kelly, DOWNSIDE UP is about the tentative, dangerous notion of hope in a city widely viewed as hopeless. When, in the 1980s, the Sprague...
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Innovation districts and anchor institutions, like hospitals, universities, and technology hubs, are celebrated for their ability to drive economic growth and employment opportunities. But the benefits often fail to reach the very neighbourhoods they are built in. As CEO of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC), Matt Enstice took a different approach. Under Matt's leadership, BNMC has supported entrepreneurship training programmes and mentorship...
Publisher
D.C. Preservation League
Pub. Date
1988-
Language
English
Description
The D.C. Preservation reporter later known as the DC Preservation advocate is a quarterly publication of the D.C. Preservation League, informs its readers about events and matters of interest in historic preservation in Washington, D.C.
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Over the past hundred years, the global motto has been "more, more, more" in terms of growth - of population, of the built environment, of human and financial capital, and of all manner of worldly goods. This was the reality as the world population boomed during the 1960s and 1970s. But reality is changing in front of our eyes. Growth is already slowing down, and according to the most sophisticated demographers, the earth's population will begin...
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"American higher education is in crisis-- costs continue to climb skyward while public funding is in decline. In response, university administrators have aimed to enrich their campuses and the surrounding areas with amenities to attract students and faculty, especially in urban areas where students can explore cities from the safety of the ivory tower. But what, then, becomes of the communities and cultures surrounding these campuses?... Historian...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"The compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight. Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give up on American cities. We are commonly told that it was a "creative class" of young professionals who revived a moribund urban America in the 1990s and 2000s. But this stunning reversal owes much more to another, far less visible group: Latino and Latina newcomers. Award-winning...
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