Colonial Urbanism In The Age Of The Enlightenment
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Colonial Urbanism In The Age Of The Enlightenment
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Author : Claudia Murray
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2023-06-06
Colonial Urbanism In The Age Of The Enlightenment written by Claudia Murray and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-06 with History categories.
This book tells the story of how the monarchy aimed at creating a new capital city in a remote and forgotten area of the empire. It also shows how the local Creole bourgeoisie rapidly assumed the role of urban developers, and enhanced their economic status by investing in and controlling the Buenos Aires’ property market. In a short period, from 1776 to 1810, the urban transformation of Buenos Aires helped increase the Crown’s revenues and considerably reduced contraband trade. Nevertheless, urban changes generated an internal struggle for power for the control of the city between the Spanish loyalist and the local wealthier Creoles. As this book concludes, for an empire such as the Spanish, which was built upon a network of cities, the Crown’s loss of the control of Buenos Aires’ urban space was a serious threat to its power that foreshadowed Argentina’s wars of independence.
Designing The Modern City
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Author : Eric Paul Mumford
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-01
Designing The Modern City written by Eric Paul Mumford and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-01 with Architecture categories.
A comprehensive new survey tracing the global history of urbanism and urban design from the industrial revolution to the present. Written with an international perspective that encourages cross-cultural comparisons, leading architectural and urban historian Eric Mumford presents a comprehensive survey of urbanism and urban design since the industrial revolution. Beginning in the second half of the 19th century, technical, social, and economic developments set cities and the world's population on a course of massive expansion. Mumford recounts how key figures in design responded to these changing circumstances with both practicable proposals and theoretical frameworks, ultimately creating what are now mainstream ideas about how urban environments should be designed, as well as creating the field called "urbanism." He then traces the complex outcomes of approaches that emerged in European, American, and Asian cities. This erudite and insightful book addresses the modernization of the traditional city, including mass transit and sanitary sewer systems, building legislation, and model tenement and regional planning approaches. It also examines the urban design concepts of groups such as CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture) and Team 10, and their adherents and critics, including those of the Congress for the New Urbanism, as well as efforts toward ecological urbanism. Highlighting built as well as unbuilt projects, Mumford offers a sweeping guide to the history of designers' efforts to shape cities.
South America
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Author : H. Micheal Tarver
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2025-03-20
South America written by H. Micheal Tarver and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-20 with History categories.
Discover the people, events, milestones, and landmarks in the history of South America from European contact to their independence. This two-volume encyclopedia provides entries on many of the key people, places, and events essential to the last 500 years of South American history, from the Cajamarca Encounter of 1532 to the independence of Suriname in 1975. With entries on the indigenous peoples of countries such as Argentina and Uruguay, the major geographic landmarks from the Andes Mountains to the Amazon River, and on cities from Buenos Aires to Quito, this encyclopedia provides students and researchers alike a valuable guide to South American history, geography, and culture. The volumes comprise entries on various South American colonies and countries; events and places; groups, organizations, and industries; independence movements; individuals; objects and artifacts; and organizations and administrations. Primary source document excerpts, a timeline, and original maps provide readers with a direct connection to the past and inspire historical inquiry. This comprehensive encyclopedia offers a window to the past, showing how the South America of the present came to be.
Colonial Self Fashioning In British India C 1785 1845
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Author : Prasannajit de Silva
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2018-07-26
Colonial Self Fashioning In British India C 1785 1845 written by Prasannajit de Silva and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-26 with Art categories.
A stereotypical view of the nineteenth-century British in India, which might be characterised as one of deliberate isolation and segregation from their surroundings, has recently been complemented by one evoking a high degree of integration and closer co-existence in the eighteenth century. Focusing on a period which straddles this apparent shift, this book explores a variety of ways in which British residents in India represented their lives through visual material, and reveals a more nuanced position. Consideration of these images, which have often been overlooked in the scholarly literature, opens up questions of identity facing the British population in India at this time and facing colonial societies more generally, and issues about the role of visual culture in negotiating them. It also underlines the fragile and contested nature of identity: the colonists’ self-fashioning encompassed not only expressions of difference from their Indian setting, but also what distinguished them from their compatriots back in Britain, as well as engaging with metropolitan attitudes towards, and prejudices about, them.
Scottish Town In The Age Of The Enlightenment 1740 1820
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Author : Bob Harris
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2014-08-04
Scottish Town In The Age Of The Enlightenment 1740 1820 written by Bob Harris and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-04 with Social Science categories.
This heavily illustrated and innovative study is founded upon personal documents, town council minutes, legal cases, inventories, travellers' tales, plans and drawings relating to some 30 Scots burghs of the Georgian period. It establishes a distinctive and much-needed history for the development of Georgian Scots burghs.
French Colonial Urbanism
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Author : Preeti Chopra
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
French Colonial Urbanism written by Preeti Chopra and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with categories.
Europe And The World 1650 1830
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Author : Professor Jeremy Black
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-08
Europe And The World 1650 1830 written by Professor Jeremy Black and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-08 with History categories.
Europe and the World, 1650-1830 is an important thematic study of the first age of globalisation. It surveys the interaction of Europe, Europe's growing colonies and other major global powers, such as the Ottoman Empire, China, India and Japan. Focusing on Europe's impact on the world, Jeremy Black analyses European attitudes, exploration, trade and acquisition of knowledge.
Imperial Conversations
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Author : Shanti Jayewardene-Pillai
language : en
Publisher: Yoda Press
Release Date : 2007
Imperial Conversations written by Shanti Jayewardene-Pillai and has been published by Yoda Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Architecture categories.
The eighteenth century was a time of profound upheaval when economic and political control of southern India passed from native kings to the East India Company. Hand-in-hand with the resultant conflicts and skirmishes, a process of cultural sharing was gaining ground which went on to manifest itself in the form of a flourishing imperial cultural in the nineteenth century.
Why Walls Won T Work
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Author : Michael Dear
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-07
Why Walls Won T Work written by Michael Dear and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-07 with History categories.
Traces the border's long history of cultural interaction
Justice And Cities
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Author : Mark Davidson
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-06-20
Justice And Cities written by Mark Davidson and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-20 with Political Science categories.
This book explores different theories of justice and explains how these connect to broader geographical questions and inform our understanding of urban problems. Since philosophers like Socrates debated in the ancient agora, cities have prompted arguments about the best ways to live together. Cities have also produced some of the most vexing moral problems, including the critical question of what obligations we have to people we neither know nor affiliate with. The first part of this book outlines the most well-developed answers to these questions: the justice theories of Utilitarianism, Libertarianism, Liberalism, Marxism, Communitarianism, Conservativism, and recent "post" critiques. Within each theory, we find a set of geographical propensities that shape the ways purveyors of the theories see the city and its moral problems. The central thesis of the book is therefore that competing moral theories have distinct geographical concerns and perspectives, and that these propensities often condition how the city and its injustices are understood. The second part of the book features three studies of contemporary urban problems – gentrification, segregation, and (un)affordability – to demonstrate how predominant justice theories generate distinctive moral and geographical interpretations. This book therefore serves as an urbanist’s guide to justice theory, written for undergraduates and postgraduates studying human geography, urban and municipal planning, urban theory and urban politics, sociology, and politics and government.