Reason In The City Of Difference
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Reason In The City Of Difference
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Author : Gary Bridge
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2005
Reason In The City Of Difference written by Gary Bridge and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Pragmatism categories.
This book re-establishes a notion of conscious agency in our understanding of urban life. Using empirical examples and drawing on pragmatist ideas of 'experience' and rationality, this text offers a new, alternative reading of the city.
Cities In The Urban Age
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Author : Robert A. Beauregard
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-03-19
Cities In The Urban Age written by Robert A. Beauregard and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-19 with Social Science categories.
We live in a self-proclaimed Urban Age, where we celebrate the city as the source of economic prosperity, a nurturer of social and cultural diversity, and a place primed for democracy. We proclaim the city as the fertile ground from which progress will arise. Without cities, we tell ourselves, human civilization would falter and decay. In Cities in the Urban Age, Robert A. Beauregard argues that this line of thinking is not only hyperbolic—it is too celebratory by half. For Beauregard, the city is a cauldron for four haunting contradictions. First, cities are equally defined by both their wealth and their poverty. Second, cities are simultaneously environmentally destructive and yet promise sustainability. Third, cities encourage rule by political machines and oligarchies, even as they are essentially democratic and at least nominally open to all. And fourth, city life promotes tolerance among disparate groups, even as the friction among them often erupts into violence. Beauregard offers no simple solutions or proposed remedies for these contradictions; indeed, he doesn’t necessarily hold that they need to be resolved, since they are generative of city life. Without these four tensions, cities wouldn’t be cities. Rather, Beauregard argues that only by recognizing these ambiguities and contradictions can we even begin to understand our moral obligations, as well as the clearest paths toward equality, justice, and peace in urban settings.
Why Are Some Cities Winners Or Losers
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Author : Florentin Rack
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2014-12-29
Why Are Some Cities Winners Or Losers written by Florentin Rack and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-29 with Business & Economics categories.
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,4, EBS European Business School gGmbH (Real Estate Management Institute), language: English, abstract: The aim of this bachelor thesis is to find out what drives city growth in Germany. It shall find out what are the determinants that make large cities gain or lose inhabitants. Especially in Eastern Germany after the reunification there have been some “winner cities” such as Dresden, Leipzig, and Potsdam, and many “loser cities” such as Chemnitz, Magdeburg, and Schwerin. In the last decades, a similar separation between winners and losers has arisen also in Western Germany. So what is the reason for this division into two groups of cities? The research is very relevant for city governments and real estate owners or investors. Emigration of the working populace and few births lower the tax earnings and raise the necessary public expenses a city has to bear, while the opposite makes a city thrive fiscally, financially, and economically. Rents and land prices depend on the development of the city size: shrinking cities have horrendous vacancy rates, while prices are exploding in growing cities. Knowing what the reasons for city growth shrinkage are enables city governors to adapt the right policies to make their city become an exception of the overall demographic collapse in Germany or to turn around a dangerous progress. Knowing these reasons also enables real estate investors to predict future demand for residential, office, and retail space, and to decide whether properties are under or overpriced.
Ordinary Cities
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Author : Jennifer Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-07-04
Ordinary Cities written by Jennifer Robinson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-04 with Architecture categories.
With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if it is to remain relevant to the majority of cities and their populations, many of which are outside the West. This groundbreaking book establishes a new framework for urban development. It makes the argument that all cities are best understood as ‘ordinary’, and crosses the longstanding divide in urban scholarship and urban policy between Western and other cities (especially those labelled ‘Third World’). It considers the two framing axes of urban modernity and development, and argues that if cities are to be imagined in equitable and creative ways, urban theory must overcome these axes with their Western bias and that resources must become at least as cosmopolitan as cities themselves. Tracking paths across previously separate literatures and debates, this innovative book - a postcolonial critique of urban studies - traces the outlines of a cosmopolitan approach to cities, drawing on evidence from Rio, Johannesburg, Lusaka and Kuala Lumpur. Key urban scholars and debates, from Simmel, Benjamin and the Chicago School to Global and World Cities theories are explored, together with anthropological and developmentalist accounts of poorer cities. Offering an alternative approach, Ordinary Cities skilfully brings together theories of urban development for students and researchers of urban studies, geography and development.
Breakthroughs In Smart City Implementation
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Author : Leo P. Ligthart
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2022-09-01
Breakthroughs In Smart City Implementation written by Leo P. Ligthart and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-01 with Computers categories.
Breakthroughs in Smart City Implementation should give answers on a wide variety of present social, political and technological problems. Green and long-lasting solutions are needed in coming 10 years and beyond on areas as green and long lasting solutions for improving air quality, quality of life of residents in cities, traffic congestions and many more.Two Conasense branches, established in China and in India, report in six book chapters on initiatives needed to overcome the obvious shortcomings at present. Three more chapters complete this fifth Conasense book: an introductory chapter concerning Smart City from Conasense perspective, a chapter showing that not technology but the people in the cities are most important and a chapter on recent results and prospects of “Human in the Loop” in smart vehicular systems.
The Image Of The City
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Author : Kevin Lynch
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1964-06-15
The Image Of The City written by Kevin Lynch and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964-06-15 with Architecture categories.
The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
The Arena
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
The Arena written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with United States categories.
The Arena
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Author : Benjamin Orange Flower
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
The Arena written by Benjamin Orange Flower and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with American essays categories.
A Tale Of Three Cities
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Author : John Lynch
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1998-07-13
A Tale Of Three Cities written by John Lynch and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-07-13 with History categories.
The city of Belfast tends to be discussed in terms of its distinctiveness from the rest of Ireland, an industrial city in an agricultural country. However, when compared with another 'British' industrial port such as Bristol it is the similarities rather than the differences that are surprising. When these cities are compared with Dublin, the contrasts become even more painfully evident. This book seeks to explore these contrasting urban centres at the start of the twentieth century.
Why Do Cities Develop And Why They Are Different In Size
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Author : Susanne Jung
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2006-04-13
Why Do Cities Develop And Why They Are Different In Size written by Susanne Jung and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-13 with Business & Economics categories.
Essay from the year 2003 in the subject Economics - Macro-economics, general, grade: 2, University of Kent (Department of Economics), course: Spatial Economy, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Why people and firms are not evenly distributed around the world? Why do they not use land equally and why are firms and people are not equally spaced? Why are they concentrated in special areas although there is no geographical or structural difference? Reality shows a different picture to an equally distributed use of land and space: There is concentration of people and firms at special places or areas. The existence of cities is one of the questions that are interesting in an ex-post point of view as well as in future perspectives. The question is why cities exist and why are they different in size or in other words where do they locate and why as well as how do they develop. Therefore it makes sense to analyse the rationale for the existence of cities in terms of their determinants. There are dimensions that we should have a closer look at such as the localisation of cities, their growth and their different sizes. Firstly, different definitions of cities are mentioned. Afterwards the reasons for agglomeration forces through economies of scale that result in cities are described. Further its limits are analysed that bound the growth of cities. For explaining the different arrangement as well as the different sizes of cities the central place approaches of Christaller and Lösch are mentioned. Finally the empirical based rank-rule gives additional explanation for different sized cities.