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| Author | : Joel Garreau |
| Publisher | : Anchor |
| Total Pages | : 575 |
| Release | : 2011-07-27 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0307801942 |
First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City.
| Author | : Ho-fung Hung |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2022-05-19 |
| Genre | : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |
| ISBN | : 1108840337 |
A timely study of Hong Kong's politics and society since the 1997 handover that explores the city's long history of resistance.
| Author | : Peter Lunenfeld |
| Publisher | : Viking |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0525561935 |
"An engaging account of the uniquely creative spirit and bustling cultural ecology of contemporary Los Angeles ... [The author] weaves together the city's art, architecture, and design, juxtaposes its entertainment and literary histories, and moves from restaurant kitchens to recording studios to ultra-secret research and development labs. In the process, he reimagines Los Angeles as simultaneously an exemplar and cautionary tale for the 21st century"--Provided by publisher.
| Author | : Rory Hyde |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0415533538 |
Interviews with innovators who define seventeen new architectural practice types including community enabler, management thinker, and civic entrepreneur.
| Author | : Michael Southworth |
| Publisher | : Island Press |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2013-04-22 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1610911091 |
The topic of streets and street design is of compelling interest today as public officials, developers, and community activists seek to reshape urban patterns to achieve more sustainable forms of growth and development. Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities traces ideas about street design and layout back to the early industrial era in London suburbs and then on through their institutionalization in housing and transportation planning in the United States. It critiques the situation we are in and suggests some ways out that are less rigidly controlled, more flexible, and responsive to local conditions. Originally published in 1997, this edition includes a new introduction that addresses topics of current interest including revised standards from the Institute of Transportation Engineers; changes in city plans and development standards following New Urbanist, Smart Growth, and sustainability principles; traffic calming; and ecologically oriented street design.
| Author | : Roberta Brandes Gratz |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2000-01-27 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 9780471361244 |
"A love song for the city . . . [this] volume, attractivelypackaged and richly illustrated, is really a cookbook for downtownrevitalization." --Wall Street Journal In this pioneering book on successful urban recovery, two urbanexperts draw on their firsthand observations of downtown changeacross the country to identify a flexible, effective approach tourban rejuvenation. From transportation planning and sprawlcontainment to the threat of superstore retailers, they address ahost of key issues facing our cities today. Roberta Brandes Gratz (New York, NY), an award-winning journalistand urban critic, is author of the urban design classic The LivingCity. A former staff reporter for the New York Post, Gratz haswritten for the New York Times Magazine and other publications.Norman Mintz (New York, NY) has played a leading role in the fieldof downtown revitalization for more than twenty-five years. He isDesign Director at the 34th Street Partnership in New York City anda consultant on downtown revitalization across the country.
| Author | : Jarrett Walker |
| Publisher | : Island Press |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2012-07-29 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 1610911741 |
Public transit is a powerful tool for addressing a huge range of urban problems, including traffic congestion and economic development as well as climate change. But while many people support transit in the abstract, it's often hard to channel that support into good transit investments. Part of the problem is that transit debates attract many kinds of experts, who often talk past each other. Ordinary people listen to a little of this and decide that transit is impossible to figure out. Jarrett Walker believes that transit can be simple, if we focus first on the underlying geometry that all transit technologies share. In Human Transit, Walker supplies the basic tools, the critical questions, and the means to make smarter decisions about designing and implementing transit services. Human Transit explains the fundamental geometry of transit that shapes successful systems; the process for fitting technology to a particular community; and the local choices that lead to transit-friendly development. Whether you are in the field or simply a concerned citizen, here is an accessible guide to achieving successful public transit that will enrich any community.
| Author | : Prof. Alejandro Portes |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 1993-09-02 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780520915541 |
Winner, 1995 American Sociological Association Robert E. Park Award? Projecting fantasies of wealth and excess, Miami, "America's Riviera," occupies a unique place in our national imagination. Uncovering the hidden story of this dreamlike place, Portes and Stepick explore the transformations of Miami from a light-hearted tourist resort to a troubled, complex city.
| Author | : Sarah Pink |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 2022-09-14 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 100064362X |
Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future invites us to think forward from our present moment of planetary, public and everyday crisis, through the prism of emerging technologies. It calls for a new ethical, responsible and equitable path towards possible futures, curated through in-depth engagement with and across experiential, environmental and technological possibilities. It tackles three of the most significant challenges for contemporary society by asking: how emerging technologies are implicated in the sites of everyday lives; what place emerging technologies have in an evolving world in crisis; and how we might better imagine and shape ethical, equitable and responsible futures. The book interweaves three narratives, each of which advances three sets of concerns for our societal futures: ‘Emergence’, which addresses futures, trust and hope; ‘Worlds’, which addresses data, air and energy; and ‘Technologies’, which addresses the future of mobilities, homes and work. Not simply a critical study of emerging technologies, this book is also an approach to thinking and practice in times of global crisis that plays out a mode of future-focused scholarship and action for the first half of the twenty-first century.
| Author | : Max Brockman |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2011-10-13 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0191628182 |
The next wave of science writing is here. Editor Max Brockman has talent-spotted 19 young scientists, working on leading-edge research across a wide range of fields. Nearly half of them are women, and all of them are great communicators: their passion and excitement makes this collection a wonderfully invigorating read. We hear from an astrobiologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena about the possibilities for life elsewhere in the solar system (and the universe); from the director of Yale's Comparative Cognition Laboratory about why we keep making the same mistakes; from a Cambridge lab about DNA synthesis; from the Tanzanian savannah about what lies behind attractiveness; we hear about how to breed plants to withstand disease, about ways to extract significance from the Interne's enormous datasets, about oceanography, neuroscience, microbiology, and evolutionary psychology.
