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The City Reader.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: London : Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 6th edDescription: 1 online resource (800 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781315748504
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 307.76
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Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of plates -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PROLOGUE: "HOW TO STUDY CITIES -- PART 1 THE EVOLUTION OF CITIES -- Introduction -- "The Urbanization of the Human Population" -- "The Urban Revolution" -- "The Polis" -- "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization" -- "The Great Towns" -- "Evolution and Transformation: The American Industrial Metropolis, 1840-1940" -- "The Drive-in Culture of Contemporary America" -- "Beyond Suburbia: The Rise of the Technoburb" -- "Global City Network" -- Plate Section 1: The Evolution of Cities -- PART 2 URBAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY -- Introduction -- "What is a City?" -- "Urbanism as a Way of Life" -- "The Negro Problems of Philadelphia," "The Question of Earning a Living," and "Color Prejudice" -- "The Code of the Street" and "Decent and Street Families" -- "Cities of Color: The New Racial Frontier in California's Minority-Majority Cities" -- "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety" -- "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital" -- "The Creative Class" -- PART 3 URBAN SPACE -- Introduction -- "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project" -- "The Los Angeles School of Urbanism: An Intellectual History" -- "What Happened to Gender Relations on the Way from Chicago to Los Angeles?" -- "Social Exclusion and Space" -- "Fortress L.A." -- "The Causes of Sprawl" -- "Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age" -- Plate Section 2: Social and Symbolic Uses of Urban Space -- PART 4 URBAN POLITICS, GOVERNANCE, AND ECONOMICS -- Introduction -- "Politics" -- "Broken Windows" -- "The Right to the City" -- "A Ladder of Citizen Participation" -- "The City as a Growth Machine: Toward a Political Economy of Place" -- "The City as a Distorted Price System".
"The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City" -- "The New Arab City" -- "Metropolitics and Fiscal Equity" -- PART 5 URBAN PLANNING HISTORY AND VISIONS -- Introduction -- "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" -- "Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet" -- "A Contemporary City" -- "Broadacre City: A New Community Plan" -- "Spectral Kinshasa: Building the City through an Architecture of Words" -- "Towards Sustainable Development" -- "Charter of the New Urbanism" -- "Green Manhattan: Everywhere Should Be More Like New York" -- PART 6 URBAN PLANNING THEORY AND PRACTICE -- Introduction -- "The City of Theory" -- "Twentieth-Century Land Use Planning: A Stalwart Family Tree" -- "Planning in the Face of Conflict" -- "Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning" -- "Planning for Sustainability in European Cities: A Review of Practice in Leading Cities" -- "Urban Planning in Curitiba" -- "Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change" -- "Hybrid Planning Cultures: The Search for the Global Cultural Commons" -- "Making Room for a Planet of Cities" -- PART 7 URBAN DESIGN AND PLACEMAKING -- Introduction -- "What is Placemaking?" -- "The Neighborhood Unit" -- "The City Image and its Elements" -- "The Design of Spaces" -- "Toward an Urban Design Manifesto" -- "Three Types of Outdoor Activities," "Life Between Buildings," and "Outdoor Activities and the Quality of Outdoor Space" -- "Resilient Cities: Clarifying Concept or Catch-all Cliché?" -- "Placemaking and the Future of Cities" -- Plate Section 3: Urban Planning and Urban Design -- PART 8 CITIES IN A GLOBAL SOCIETY -- Introduction -- "The Impact of the New Technologies and Globalization on Cities" -- "Key Findings and Messages" -- "From Global Cities to Globalized Urbanization" -- "The Place Where Everything Changes" -- "Chinese Cities in a Global Society".
"The Automobile, the City, and the New Urban Mobilities" -- "Our Urban Species" -- Plate Section 4: Cities in a Global Society -- Illustration credits -- Copyright information -- Index.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of plates -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PROLOGUE: "HOW TO STUDY CITIES -- PART 1 THE EVOLUTION OF CITIES -- Introduction -- "The Urbanization of the Human Population" -- "The Urban Revolution" -- "The Polis" -- "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization" -- "The Great Towns" -- "Evolution and Transformation: The American Industrial Metropolis, 1840-1940" -- "The Drive-in Culture of Contemporary America" -- "Beyond Suburbia: The Rise of the Technoburb" -- "Global City Network" -- Plate Section 1: The Evolution of Cities -- PART 2 URBAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY -- Introduction -- "What is a City?" -- "Urbanism as a Way of Life" -- "The Negro Problems of Philadelphia," "The Question of Earning a Living," and "Color Prejudice" -- "The Code of the Street" and "Decent and Street Families" -- "Cities of Color: The New Racial Frontier in California's Minority-Majority Cities" -- "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety" -- "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital" -- "The Creative Class" -- PART 3 URBAN SPACE -- Introduction -- "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project" -- "The Los Angeles School of Urbanism: An Intellectual History" -- "What Happened to Gender Relations on the Way from Chicago to Los Angeles?" -- "Social Exclusion and Space" -- "Fortress L.A." -- "The Causes of Sprawl" -- "Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age" -- Plate Section 2: Social and Symbolic Uses of Urban Space -- PART 4 URBAN POLITICS, GOVERNANCE, AND ECONOMICS -- Introduction -- "Politics" -- "Broken Windows" -- "The Right to the City" -- "A Ladder of Citizen Participation" -- "The City as a Growth Machine: Toward a Political Economy of Place" -- "The City as a Distorted Price System".

"The Competitive Advantage of the Inner City" -- "The New Arab City" -- "Metropolitics and Fiscal Equity" -- PART 5 URBAN PLANNING HISTORY AND VISIONS -- Introduction -- "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" -- "Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet" -- "A Contemporary City" -- "Broadacre City: A New Community Plan" -- "Spectral Kinshasa: Building the City through an Architecture of Words" -- "Towards Sustainable Development" -- "Charter of the New Urbanism" -- "Green Manhattan: Everywhere Should Be More Like New York" -- PART 6 URBAN PLANNING THEORY AND PRACTICE -- Introduction -- "The City of Theory" -- "Twentieth-Century Land Use Planning: A Stalwart Family Tree" -- "Planning in the Face of Conflict" -- "Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning" -- "Planning for Sustainability in European Cities: A Review of Practice in Leading Cities" -- "Urban Planning in Curitiba" -- "Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change" -- "Hybrid Planning Cultures: The Search for the Global Cultural Commons" -- "Making Room for a Planet of Cities" -- PART 7 URBAN DESIGN AND PLACEMAKING -- Introduction -- "What is Placemaking?" -- "The Neighborhood Unit" -- "The City Image and its Elements" -- "The Design of Spaces" -- "Toward an Urban Design Manifesto" -- "Three Types of Outdoor Activities," "Life Between Buildings," and "Outdoor Activities and the Quality of Outdoor Space" -- "Resilient Cities: Clarifying Concept or Catch-all Cliché?" -- "Placemaking and the Future of Cities" -- Plate Section 3: Urban Planning and Urban Design -- PART 8 CITIES IN A GLOBAL SOCIETY -- Introduction -- "The Impact of the New Technologies and Globalization on Cities" -- "Key Findings and Messages" -- "From Global Cities to Globalized Urbanization" -- "The Place Where Everything Changes" -- "Chinese Cities in a Global Society".

"The Automobile, the City, and the New Urban Mobilities" -- "Our Urban Species" -- Plate Section 4: Cities in a Global Society -- Illustration credits -- Copyright information -- Index.

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