Unsettling Cities

Unsettling Cities
Author: John Allen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2005-08-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1134636334

This text examines the global nature of cities - cities whose openness has shaped their dynamism and character. It explores cities as sites of movement, migration and settlement where different peoples, cultures and environments combine. Unsettling Cities explores the mix of proximity and difference that exists in the rich and diverse texture of city life. The contributors reveal the association between the changing fortunes of cities and the power and influence of global networks.

Unsettling the City

Unsettling the City
Author: Nicholas Blomley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2004-06-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1135954186

Short and accessible, this book interweaves a discussion of the geography of property in one global city, Vancouver, with a more general analysis of property, politics, and the city.

Splintering Urbanism

Splintering Urbanism
Author: Stephen Graham
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415189651

This text offers an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. Drawing on case studies and examples from across the globe, it offers a statement on the urban condition.

Linguistic Landscape in the City

Linguistic Landscape in the City
Author: Elana Shohamy
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2010-07-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1847694810

This book focuses on linguistic landscapes in present-day urban settings. In a wide-ranging collection of studies of major world cities, the authors investigate both the forces that shape linguistic landscape and the impact of the linguistic landscape on the wider social and cultural reality. Not only does the book offer a wealth of case studies and comparisons to complement existing publications on linguistic landscape, but the editors aim to investigate the nature of a field of study which is characterised by its interest in ‘ordered disorder’. The editors aspire to delve into linguistic landscape beyond its appearance as a jungle of jumbled and irregular items by focusing on the variations in linguistic landscape configurations and recognising that it is but one more field of the shaping of social reality under diverse, uncoordinated and possibly incongruent structuration principles.

Sacred Civics

Sacred Civics
Author: Jayne Engle
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2022-05-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000601358

Sacred Civics argues that societal transformation requires that spirituality and sacred values are essential to reimagining patterns of how we live, organize and govern ourselves, determine and distribute wealth, inhabit and design cities, and construct relationships with others and with nature. The book brings together transdisciplinary and global academics, professionals, and activists from a range of backgrounds to question assumptions that are fused deep into the code of how societies operate, and to draw on extraordinary wisdom from ancient Indigenous traditions; to social and political movements like Black Lives Matter, the commons, and wellbeing economies; to technologies for participatory futures where people collaborate to reimagine and change culture. Looking at cities and human settlements as the sites of transformation, the book focuses on values, commons, and wisdom to demonstrate that how we choose to live together, to recognize interdependencies, to build, grow, create, and love—matters. Using multiple methodologies to integrate varied knowledge forms and practices, this truly ground-breaking volume includes contributions from renowned and rising voices. Sacred Civics is a must-read for anyone interested in intersectional discussions on social justice, inclusivity, participatory design, healthy communities, and future cities.

A Tale of Two Global Cities

A Tale of Two Global Cities
Author: Jonathan Rutherford
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Since the mid-1980s, telecommunications and information technologies (IT) have become more intensely bound up than ever before in the social, economic, political and cultural processes and transformations which are increasingly concentrated in and between key strategic urban places across the globe. By analysing telecommunications developments in Paris and London, this book offers an explicit comparative and cross-national approach to the development of urban telecommunications infrastructures and to the development of global cities through a focus on these crucial infrastructures. engagement with the most relevant and recent debates and theories in urban studies, geography and planning. By examining differing, but parallel influences of national, urban and local contexts, processes and practices bound up in telecommunications developments, the book firmly underlines the inherently territorial basis of these developments and their multi-scalar elements and implications, all of which are being reinforced by the current stringent strategic retrenching of telecommunications operations around the globe.

Environment and Planning

Environment and Planning
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 980
Release: 1999
Genre: Architectural design
ISBN:

Journal of urban planning and design. Publishes research in the application of formal methods, methods models, and theories to spatial problems involving the built environment and the spatial structure of cities and regions. Includes the application of computers to planning and design, in particular the use of shape grammars, artificial intelligence, and morphological methods to buildings and towns, the use of multimedia and GIS in urban and regional planning, and the development of ideas concerning the virtual city.

Unsettling the City

Unsettling the City
Author: Nicholas K. Blomley
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2004
Genre: City planning
ISBN: 9780415933162

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

International Research on Metropolises

International Research on Metropolises
Author: Axel Borsdorf
Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2003
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Aus dem Inhalt:Milestones:Saskia Sassen, The Global City: Strategic Site/New FrontierPeter J. Taylor, Generating Data for Research on Cities in GlobalizationBryan R. Roberts, The Ambiguities of Globalization and Latin American CitiesPierre Frankhauser, La ville fractale et la fractalite des villesFrontiers:Anita Pockl/Edgar Hagspiel/Monika Kuffer, Planning Conditions for the Vienna Metropolitan RegionAxel Borsdorf/Vera Mayer, Observations on Commercial Areas on the Outskirts of European CitiesChristof Parnreiter/Karin Fischer/Johannes Jager/Petra Kohler, Transformation and Urban Processes in Latin America