City Evolved
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Cities Design And Evolution
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Author : Stephen Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-12
Cities Design And Evolution written by Stephen Marshall and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12 with categories.
Why does modern planning sometimes create urban environments that are less attractive and functional than the organic urbanism of traditional cities? Cities Design and Evolution takes up the challenge of this question, investigating how cities are put together, both in the sense of how the parts are organized in relation to the whole, and how they are created or evolve over time. Cities Design and Evolution offers an engaging and original narrative that interprets planning philosophies from Modernism to New Urbanism, organic theories from Patrick Geddes to Le Corbusier, and evolutionary thinking from Charles Darwin to Richard Dawkins. The book develops a new evolutionary perspective that recognizes both the designed and organic nature of cities, and provides a rationale and impetus for fresh approaches to urban planning and design. In what is the first book to significantly apply modern evolutionary thinking to urbanism, Cities Design and Evolution promises to stimulate thought, debate and action concerning the nature of cities and future urban planning. The book should appeal to all who are interested in cities, in design and in evolution. "
City And Country
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Author : Alexander R. Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-06-17
City And Country written by Alexander R. Thomas and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-17 with Social Science categories.
City and Country: The Historical Evolution of Urban-Rural Systems begins with a simple assumption: every human requires, on average, two-thousand calories per day to stay alive. Tracing the ramifications of this insight leads to the caloric well: the caloric demand at one point in the environment. As population increases, the depth of the caloric well reflects this increased demand and requires a population to go further afield for resources, a condition called urban dependency. City and Country traces the structural ramifications of these dynamics as the population increased from the Paleolithic to today. We can understand urban dependency as the product of the caloric demands a population puts on a given environment, and when those demands outstrip the carry capacity of the environment, a caloric well develops that forces a community to look beyond its immediate area for resources. As the well deepens, the horizon from which resources are gathered is pushed further afield, often resulting in conflict with neighboring groups. Prior to settled villages, increases in population resulted in cultural (technological) innovations that allowed for greater use of existing resources: the broad-spectrum revolution circa 20 thousand years ago, the birth of agricultural villages 11 thousand years ago, and hierarchically organized systems of multiple settlements working together to produce enough food during the Ubaid period in Mesopotamia seven-thousand years ago—the first urban-rural systems. As cities developed, increasing population resulted in an ever-deepening morass of urban dependency that required expansion of urban-rural systems. These urban-rural dynamics today serve as an underlying logic upon which modern capitalism is built. The culmination of two decades of research into the nature of urban-rural dynamics, City and Country argues that at the heart of the logic of capitalism is an even deeper logic: urbanization is based on urban dependency.
Cities In Evolution
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Author : Sir Patrick Geddes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Cities In Evolution written by Sir Patrick Geddes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Cities and towns categories.
City Evolved
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Author : King Hei Ho
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
City Evolved written by King Hei Ho and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Architecture categories.
Cities In Evolution
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Author : Patrick Geddes
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-08-10
Cities In Evolution written by Patrick Geddes and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-10 with categories.
FROM opening chapter to concluding summary it will be plain that this book is neither a technical treatise for the town-planner or city councillor, nor a manual of civics for the sociologist or teacher, but is of frankly introductory character. Yet it is not solely an attempt at the popularisation of the reviving art of town planning, of the renewing science of civics, to the general reader. What it seeks is to express in various ways the essential harmony of all these interests and aims; and to emphasise the possibilities of readier touch and fuller cooperation among them. All this is no mere general ethical or economic appeal, but an attempt to show, with concrete arguments and local instances, that these too long separated aspects of our conduct of life and of affairs may be reunited in constructive citizenship. Despite our contemporary difficulties - industrial, social, and political, -there are available around us the elements of a civic uplift, and with this, of general advance to a higher plane of industrial civilisation...
Early Urban Planning
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Author : Patrick Geddes
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2004-11
Early Urban Planning written by Patrick Geddes and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11 with Philosophy categories.
The Evolution Of The Ancient City
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Author : Alexander R. Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Comparative Urban Studies
Release Date : 2012-06-07
The Evolution Of The Ancient City written by Alexander R. Thomas and has been published by Comparative Urban Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-07 with Cities and towns, Ancient categories.
The Evolution of the Ancient City is an interdisciplinary look at how cities developed from Hunter-Gatherer societies to centers of vast empires in the Fertile Crescent between 21,500 BCE and 1,200 BCE. The reader is guided through each stage of social evolution and its consequences for our understanding of modern cities. As a result, urban theory must adapt to this long-range view of the city.
The Evolution Of Great World Cities
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Author : Christopher Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2011-08-09
The Evolution Of Great World Cities written by Christopher Kennedy and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-09 with Business & Economics categories.
Some cities seem destined to become major financial capitals, yet never do—Seville, for instance, was the centre of Spain's opulent New World Empire, but failed to become a financial metropolis. Others, like former colonial backwater Hong Kong, defy the odds by growing into major trading centres. What are the key factors distinguishing those cities that become wealthy from those that don't? Christopher Kennedy illuminates how geography, technology, and especially the infrastructure of urban economies allow cities to develop and thrive. The Evolution of Great World Cities unfolds through the tales of several urban centres—including Venice, Amsterdam, London, and New York City—at key junctures in their histories. Kennedy weaves together significant insights from urbanists such as Jane Jacobs and economists such as John Maynard Keynes, drawing striking parallels between the functioning of ecosystems and of wealthy capitals. The Evolution of Great World Cities offers an accessible introduction to urban economies that 'will change the way you think about cities.'
Compact City
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Author : Thomas L. Saaty
language : en
Publisher: RWS Publications
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Compact City written by Thomas L. Saaty and has been published by RWS Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
We need to control nature by eliminating its capricious threats to our lives. We do it best by not only making our living, working , sports and other leisure structures more accessible in space, but also by minimizing and banishing congestions and the need for long times to commute to work or to access shopping malls, sports and cultural activities. With the threat of global warming and melting of the polar ice cap in the Antarctic, low lying cities throughout the world are threatened with drowning under more than 150 feet of water. What should we be thinking about insulating ourselves from natural threats like hurricanes and tsunamis and earthquakes? Surprisingly enough, the new design will eliminate one of the problems of poverty, the lack of shelter.
Darwin Comes To Town
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Author : Menno Schilthuizen
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-02-08
Darwin Comes To Town written by Menno Schilthuizen and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-08 with Science categories.
See your city through fresh eyes We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, and a large portion of the planet's landmass is urbanized. With much of the rest covered by human-shaped farms, pasture, and plantations, where can nature still go? To the cities -- is Menno Schilthuizen's answer in this remarkable book. And with more and more wildlife carving out new niches among humans, evolution takes a surprising turn. Urban animals evolve to become more cheeky and resourceful, city pigeons develop detox-plumage, and weeds growing from cracks in the pavement get a new type of seeds. City blackbirds are even on their way of becoming an entirely new species, which we could name Turdus urbanicus. Thanks to evolutionary adaptation taking place at unprecedented speeds, plants and animals are coming up with new ways of living in the seemingly hostile environments of asphalt and steel that we humans have created. We are on the verge of a new chapter in the history of life, Schilthuizen says -- a chapter in which much old biodiversity is, sadly, disappearing, but also one in which a new and exciting set of life forms is being born. Menno Schilthuizen shows us that evolution in cities can happen far more rapidly, and strangely, than Darwin had dared dream.