The Urban Planet
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The Urban Planet How Cities Save Our Future
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
The Urban Planet How Cities Save Our Future written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
City Unseen
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Author : Karen Ching-Yee Seto
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-01
City Unseen written by Karen Ching-Yee Seto 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 Climatic changes categories.
Stunning satellite images of one hundred cities show our urbanizing planet in a new light to reveal the fragile relationship between humanity and Earth Seeing cities around the globe in their larger environmental contexts, we begin to understand how the world shapes urban landscapes and how urban landscapes shape the world. Authors Karen Seto and Meredith Reba provide these revealing views to enhance readers' understanding of the shape, growth, and life of urban settlements of all sizes--from the remote town of Namche Bazaar in Nepal to the vast metropolitan prefecture of Tokyo, Japan. Using satellite data, the authors show urban landscapes in new perspectives. The book's beautiful and surprising images pull back the veil on familiar scenes to highlight the growth of cities over time, the symbiosis between urban form and natural landscapes, and the vulnerabilities of cities to the effects of climate change. We see the growth of Las Vegas and Lagos, the importance of rivers to both connecting and dividing cities like Seoul and London, and the vulnerability of Fukushima and San Juan to floods from tsunami or hurricanes. The result is a compelling book that shows cities' relationships with geography, food, and society.
Urban Planet
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Author : Thomas Elmqvist
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-26
Urban Planet written by Thomas Elmqvist and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-26 with Nature categories.
Global urbanization promises better services, stronger economies, and more connections; it also carries risks and unforeseeable consequences. To deepen our understanding of this complex process and its importance for global sustainability, we need to build interdisciplinary knowledge around a systems approach. Urban Planet takes an integrative look at our urban environment, bringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines: from sociology and political science to evolutionary biology, geography, economics and engineering. It includes the perspectives of often neglected voices: architects, journalists, artists and activists. The book provides a much needed cross-scale perspective, connecting challenges and solutions on a local scale with drivers and policy frameworks on a regional and global scale. The authors argue that to overcome the major challenges we are facing, we must embark on a large-scale reinvention of how we live together, grounded in inclusiveness and sustainability. This title is also available Open Access.
Our Urban Planet In Theory And History
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Author : Carl Nightingale
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-06-06
Our Urban Planet In Theory And History written by Carl Nightingale and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-06 with History categories.
This Element offers seven propositions toward a theory of 'Our Urban Planet' that is useful to global urban historians. I argue that historians have much to offer to theorists particularly those involved in debates over planetary urbanization theory and the Anthropocene. We must enlarge our concept of 'urban' to include spaces that make cities possible and that cities make possible and become comfortable with longer temporal frames that nest global urban history within Earth Time. Above all we need to add the crucial dimension of power, redefining cities as spaces that humans produce to amplify harvests of geo-solar energy and deploy human power within space and time. The element uses insights from 'deep history' to set the stage for a 'theory by verb' elaborating the many paradoxes of humans' 6,000-year gamble with the Urban Condition and explaining cities' own intrinsic capacity to outrun their own theorizability.
Earthopolis
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Author : Carl H. Nightingale
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-06-09
Earthopolis written by Carl H. Nightingale and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-09 with History categories.
A panoramic study of our Urban Planet that takes readers on a six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world's cities.
An Urban Planet
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Author : Barbara Jackson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
An Urban Planet written by Barbara Jackson 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.
Urban Planet
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Author : Thomas Elmqvist
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Urban Planet written by Thomas Elmqvist and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Global urbanization promises better services, stronger economies, and more connections; it also carries risks and unforeseeable consequences. To deepen our understanding of this complex process and its importance for global sustainability, we need to build interdisciplinary knowledge around a systems approach. Urban Planet takes an integrative look at our urban environment, bringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines: from sociology and political science to evolutionary biology, geography, economics and engineering. It includes the perspectives of often neglected voices: architects, journalists, artists and activists. The book provides a much needed cross-scale perspective, connecting challenges and solutions on a local scale with drivers and policy frameworks on a regional and global scale. The authors argue that to overcome the major challenges we are facing, we must embark on a large-scale reinvention of how we live together, grounded in inclusiveness and sustainability.
Earthopolis
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Author : Carl Husemoller Nightingale
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Earthopolis written by Carl Husemoller Nightingale and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Cities and towns categories.
This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. It is a history of how cities gave humans immense power over Earth, for good and for ill. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a sweeping six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world's cities, culminating in the last 250 years, when we vastly accelerated our planetary realms of action, habitat, and impact, courting dangerous new consequences and opening prospects for new hope. In Earthopolis we peek into our cities' homes, neighborhoods, streets, shops, eating houses, squares, marketplaces, religious sites, schools, universities, offices, monuments, docklands, and airports to discover connections between small spaces and the largest things we have built. The book exposes the Urban Planet's deep inequalities of power, wealth, access to knowledge, class, race, gender, sexuality, religion and nation. It asks us to draw on the most just and democratic moments of Earthopolis's past to rescue its future.
The Urban Planet
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Author : Thomas Elmqvist
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-26
The Urban Planet written by Thomas Elmqvist and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-26 with Business & Economics categories.
Over 100 scientists, architects, journalists, artists and activists address creatively the unprecedented challenges facing an Urban Planet. This title is also available Open Access.
Our Urban Planet
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Author : Ellen Eichenwald Switzer
language : en
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Release Date : 1980-01-01
Our Urban Planet written by Ellen Eichenwald Switzer and has been published by Atheneum Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Discusses the growth and development of various types of cities, urban problems and their solutions, and what the future may hold for cities.