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  1. Integrating Food into Urban Planning
    Contributor: Cabannes, Yves (Publisher); Marocchino, Cecilia (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  UCL Press

    The integration of food into urban planning is a crucial and emerging topic. Urban planners, alongside the local and regional authorities that have traditionally been less engaged in food-related issues, are now asked to take a central and active... more

     

    The integration of food into urban planning is a crucial and emerging topic. Urban planners, alongside the local and regional authorities that have traditionally been less engaged in food-related issues, are now asked to take a central and active part in understanding how food is produced, processed, packaged, transported, marketed, consumed, disposed of and recycled in our cities.

    While there is a growing body of literature on the topic, the issue of planning cities in such a way they will increase food security and nutrition, not only for the affluent sections of society but primarily for the poor, is much less discussed, and much less informed by practices. This volume, a collaboration between the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at UCL and the Food Agricultural Organisation, aims to fill this gap by putting more than 20 city-based experiences in perspective, including studies from Toronto, New York City, Portland and Providence in North America; Milan in Europe and Cape Town in Africa; Belo Horizonte and Lima in South America; and, in Asia, Bangkok and Tokyo.

    By studying and comparing cities of different sizes, from both the Global North and South, in developed and developing regions, the contributors collectively argue for the importance and circulation of global knowledge rooted in local food planning practices, programmes and policies.

     
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    Contributor: Cabannes, Yves (Publisher); Marocchino, Cecilia (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Development studies; Food & society; Urban communities; Sociology; Food security & supply; Sustainability; Urban & municipal planning
    Other subjects: food; planning; urban; food security
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (376 p.)
  2. Rethinking Sustainability Towards a Regenerative Economy
    Contributor: Andreucci, Maria Beatrice (Publisher); Marvuglia, Antonino (Publisher); Baltov, Milen (Publisher); Hansen, Preben (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Springer Nature

    This open access book is based on work from the COST Action “RESTORE - REthinking Sustainability TOwards a Regenerative Economy'', and highlights how sustainability in buildings, facilities and urban governance is crucial for a future that is... more

     

    This open access book is based on work from the COST Action “RESTORE - REthinking Sustainability TOwards a Regenerative Economy'', and highlights how sustainability in buildings, facilities and urban governance is crucial for a future that is socially just, ecologically restorative, and economically viable, for Europe and the whole planet. In light of the search for fair solutions to the climate crisis, the authors outline the urgency for the built environment sector to implement adaptation and mitigation strategies, as well as a just transition. As shown in the chapters, this can be done by applying a broader framework that enriches places, people, ecology, culture, and climate, at the core of the design task - with a particular emphasis on the benefits towards health and resilient business practices. This book is one step on the way to a paradigm shift towards restorative sustainability for new and existing buildings. The authors want to promote forward thinking and multidisciplinary knowledge, leading to solutions that celebrate the richness of design creativity. In this vision, cities of the future will enhance users’ experience, health and wellbeing inside and outside of buildings, while reconciling anthropic ecosystems and nature. A valuable resource for scientists and students in environmental sciences and architecture, as well as policy makers, practitioners and investors in urban and regional development.

     
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  3. Cities Full of Symbols : A Theory of Urban Space and Culture
    Author: Nas, Peter J.M.
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Leiden University Press, Leiden

    This book examines design proposals that show symbolic handling of the 9/11 attack on New York, the disaster symbolism of the ship washed ashore by the tsunami in Banda Aceh, and the design of the symbol of the city of Cape Town derived from a... more

     

    This book examines design proposals that show symbolic handling of the 9/11 attack on New York, the disaster symbolism of the ship washed ashore by the tsunami in Banda Aceh, and the design of the symbol of the city of Cape Town derived from a remnant of Dutch colonial architecture, or the mass pilgrimage to Elvis’s Graceland in Memphis. Cities Full of Symbols develops urban symbolic ecology and hypercity approaches into a new perspective on social cohesion. Approaches of architects, anthropologists, sociologists, social geographers and historians converge to make this a book for anyone interested in urban life, policymaking and city branding. Overal in steden zijn de betekenisvolle symbolen te vinden die samen de stadscultuur vormen. In de bundel Cities Full of Symbols, worden voorbeelden van Jakarta tot Leiden en van Buenos Aires tot New York gebruikt, en wordt aan de hand van de ‘urban symbolism theory’ ingezoomd op symbolen zoals stadslayout, standbeelden, straatnamen en de heersende populaire cultuur. Dit boek onderzoekt de symboliek die ten grondslag ligt aan de bouwplannen na de aanslagen op 11 september in New York, de betekenis van het tijdens de tsunami aangespoelde schip in Banda Atjeh, het stadslogo van Kaapstad dat is afgeleid van Nederlandse koloniale architectuur, en de massale pelgrimage naar Elvis’ Graceland in Memphis.

    In Cities Full of Symbols wordt door middel van stedelijke symbolische ecologie en hypercity benaderingen een nieuw perspectief ontwikkeld over sociale cohesie. Deze bundel verenigt benaderingen van architecten, antropologen, sociologen, sociaal geografen en historici. Dit is een boek voor iedereen met interesse in het stadsleven, beleidsvorming en stadsmarketing.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789087281250
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    Subjects: Architecture; Anthropology; Urban & municipal planning
    Other subjects: sociology; culture studies; anthropology; Colombo; Ghent; Jakarta; Yogyakarta
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (304 p.)
  4. Crime and Fear in Public Places : Towards Safe, Inclusive and Sustainable Cities
    Contributor: Ceccato, Vania (Publisher); Nalla, Mahesh K. (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis, London

    No city environment reflects the meaning of urban life better than a public place does. A public place, whatever its nature – a park, a mall, a train platform or a street corner – is where people pass by, meet each other and at times become a victim... more

     

    No city environment reflects the meaning of urban life better than a public place does. A public place, whatever its nature – a park, a mall, a train platform or a street corner – is where people pass by, meet each other and at times become a victim of crime. With this book, we submit that crime and safety in public places are not issues that can be easily dealt with within the boundaries of a single discipline. The book aims to illustrate the complexity of patterns of crime and fear in public places with examples of studies on these topics contextualized in different cities and countries around the world. This is achieved by tackling five crosscutting themes: the nature of the city’s environment as a backdrop for crime and fear; the dynamics of individuals’ daily routines and their transit safety; the safety perceptions experienced by those who are most in fear in public places; the metrics of crime and fear; and finally, examples of current practices in promoting safety. All these original articles contribute to our quest for safer, more inclusive, resilient, equitable and sustainable cities and human settlements aligned to the Global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

     
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    Contributor: Ceccato, Vania (Publisher); Nalla, Mahesh K. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Urban & municipal planning; City & town planning - architectural aspects; Crime & criminology; Urban communities
    Other subjects: crime; fear; gender; global south; LGBTQI; planning; public
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (486 p.)
  5. SOS : Sauberkeit Ordnung Sicherheit in der Stadt
    Contributor: Langreiter, Nikola (Publisher); Rolshoven, Johanna (Publisher); Steidl, Martin (Publisher)
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  innsbruck university press, Innsbruck

    The sixth volume of "bricolage. Innsbruck Journal of European Ethnology" is dedicated to the explosive urban policy issue of cleanliness – order – security, terms that in German merge into the acronym “SOS” (Sauberkeit, Ordnung, Sicherheit). Security... more

     

    The sixth volume of "bricolage. Innsbruck Journal of European Ethnology" is dedicated to the explosive urban policy issue of cleanliness – order – security, terms that in German merge into the acronym “SOS” (Sauberkeit, Ordnung, Sicherheit). Security in public spaces has become a central agenda of current urban policy and urban planning. Municipalities are increasingly implementing measures oriented toward the guiding principle of the "clean and orderly city". The current discourses and developments require observation and reflection; the relevant debates demand critical cultural studies involvement. The idea and initiative to dedicate this issue of "bricolage" to a critical examination of historically and currently propagated and accepted notions of cleanliness, order, and safety in the city, and of the political concepts and measures currently relying on them, came from Johanna Rolshoven. In the context of a course in Innsbruck in the summer term of 2009, she motivated the students to think and write about this field of her urban research. The sixth volume of "bricolage. Innsbruck Journal of European Ethnology" is dedicated to the explosive urban policy issue of cleanliness – order – security, terms that in German merge into the acronym “SOS” (Sauberkeit, Ordnung, Sicherheit). Security in public spaces has become a central agenda of current urban policy and urban planning. Municipalities are increasingly implementing measures oriented toward the guiding principle of the "clean and orderly city". The current discourses and developments require observation and reflection; the relevant debates demand critical cultural studies involvement. The idea and initiative to dedicate this issue of "bricolage" to a critical examination of historically and currently propagated and accepted notions of cleanliness, order, and safety in the city, and of the political concepts and measures currently relying on them, came from Johanna Rolshoven. In the context of a course in Innsbruck in the summer term of 2009, she motivated the students to think and write about this field of her urban research.

     
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    Contributor: Langreiter, Nikola (Publisher); Rolshoven, Johanna (Publisher); Steidl, Martin (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783902719720
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    Subjects: Ethnic studies; Urban & municipal planning; Cultural studies
    Other subjects: Ethnic Studies; Urban Planning; Graffiti
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (240 p.)
  6. Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities
    Contributor: Battersby, Jane (Publisher); Watson, Vanessa (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    This book presents the findings of an international collaborative research project that aimed to improve our understanding of the connections between urban poverty, food systems, household food security and governance, by focusing on three secondary... more

     

    This book presents the findings of an international collaborative research project

    that aimed to improve our understanding of the connections between

    urban poverty, food systems, household food security and governance, by focusing

    on three secondary cities in Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa.

     
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    Contributor: Battersby, Jane (Publisher); Watson, Vanessa (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781138726758; 9781315191195
    Subjects: Food & society; Central government; Urban & municipal planning
    Other subjects: Food security; Food supply; Government policy; Poverty; Urbanization; Africa; Kenya; Kisumu; Kitwe
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (290 p.)
  7. The Transformation of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Russia
    Author: Brade, Isolde; Axenov, Konstantin; Bondarchuk, Evgenij
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    In the years since 1989, the societies of Russia and Eastern Europe have undergone a remarkable transformation from socialism to democracy and free market capitalism. Making an important contribution to the theoretical literature of urbanism and... more

     

    In the years since 1989, the societies of Russia and Eastern Europe have undergone a remarkable transformation from socialism to democracy and free market capitalism. Making an important contribution to the theoretical literature of urbanism and post-communist transition, this significant book considers the change in the spatial structure of post-Soviet urban spaces since the period of transition began. It argues that the era of transformation can be considered as largely complete, and that this has given way to a new stage of development as part of the global urban and economic system: post-transformation. The authors examine the modern trends in the urban development of western and post-socialist countries, and explore the theories of the transformation and post-transformation of urban space. Providing a wealth of detailed qualitative research on the Russian city of St. Petersburg, the study examines the changing structure of its retail trade and services sector. Overall, this book is an important step forward in the study of the spatial dynamics of urban transformation in the former communist world.

     
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  8. New Islamic Urbanism
    Author: Maneval, Stefan
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  UCL Press, London

    Since the dawn of the oil era, cities in Saudi Arabia have witnessed rapid growth and profound societal changes. As a response to foreign architectural solutions and the increasing popularity of Western lifestyles, a distinct style of architecture... more

     

    Since the dawn of the oil era, cities in Saudi Arabia have witnessed rapid growth and profound societal changes. As a response to foreign architectural solutions and the increasing popularity of Western lifestyles, a distinct style of architecture and urban planning has emerged. Characterised by an emphasis on privacy, expressed through high enclosures, gates, blinds, and tinted windows, ‘New Islamic Urbanism’ constitutes for some an important element of piety. For others, it enables alternative ways of life, indulgence in banned social practices, and the formation of both publics and counterpublics.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Architecture; Islamic life & practice; Urban communities; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Urban & municipal planning
    Other subjects: Saudi Arabia; architecture; anthropology; Islam
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (262 p.)
  9. Re-Centring the City : Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity
    Contributor: Bach, Jonathan (Publisher); Murawski, Michał (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  UCL Press, London

    What is the role of monumentality, verticality and centrality in the twenty-first century? Are palaces, skyscrapers and grand urban ensembles obsolete relics of twentieth-century modernity, inexorably giving way to a more humble and sustainable... more

     

    What is the role of monumentality, verticality and centrality in the twenty-first century? Are palaces, skyscrapers and grand urban ensembles obsolete relics of twentieth-century modernity, inexorably giving way to a more humble and sustainable de-centred urban age? Or do the aesthetics and politics of pomp and grandiosity rather linger and even prosper in the cities of today and tomorrow?

    Re-Centring the City zooms in on these questions, taking as its point of departure the experience of Eurasian socialist cities, where twentieth-century high modernity arguably saw its most radical and furthest-reaching realisation. It frames the experience of global high modernity (and its unravelling) through the eyes of the socialist city, rather than the other way around: instead of explaining Warsaw or Moscow through the prism of Paris or New York, it refracts London, Mexico City and Chennai through the lens of Kyiv, Simferopol and the former Polish shtetls. This transdisciplinary volume re-centres the experiences of the ‘Global East’, and thereby our understanding of world urbanism, by shedding light on some of the still-extant (and often disavowed) forms of ‘zombie’ centrality, hierarchy and violence that pervade and shape our contemporary urban experience.

     
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    Contributor: Bach, Jonathan (Publisher); Murawski, Michał (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: City & town planning - architectural aspects; Urban communities; Sociology & anthropology; Political science & theory; Urban economics; Urban & municipal planning
    Other subjects: political science; urban studies; architecture; socialism
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (292 p.)
  10. London’s Urban Landscape : Another Way of Telling
    Contributor: Tilley, Christopher (Publisher)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  UCL Press, London

    London’s Urban Landscape is the first major study of a global city to adopt a materialist perspective and stress the significance of place and the built environment to the urban landscape. Edited by Christopher Tilley, the volume is inspired by... more

     

    London’s Urban Landscape is the first major study of a global city to adopt a materialist perspective and stress the significance of place and the built environment to the urban landscape. Edited by Christopher Tilley, the volume is inspired by phenomenological thinking and presents fine-grained ethnographies of the practices of everyday life in London. In doing so, it charts a unique perspective on the city that integrates ethnographies of daily life with an analysis of material culture.

    The first part of the volume considers the residential sphere of urban life, discussing in detailed case studies ordinary residential streets, housing estates, suburbia and London’s mobile ‘linear village’ of houseboats. The second part analyses the public sphere, including ethnographies of markets, a park, the social rhythms of a taxi rank, and graffiti and street art.

     
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    Contributor: Tilley, Christopher (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Material culture; Urban communities; Sociology & anthropology; Urban & municipal planning
    Other subjects: London; urban; landscape
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (444 p.)
  11. Destination London : The Expansion of the Visitor Economy
    Contributor: Smith, Andrew (Publisher); Graham , Anne (Publisher)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  University of Westminster Press, London

    London is one of the world’s most popular destinations and visitors contribute approximately £14.9 billion of expenditure to the city every year. Its tourism and events sectors are growing and over the last few years London has received more visitors... more

     

    London is one of the world’s most popular destinations and visitors contribute approximately £14.9 billion of expenditure to the city every year. Its tourism and events sectors are growing and over the last few years London has received more visitors than ever before. However, detailed accounts of the city’s visitor economy are conspicuously absent. This book analyses how the capital is developing as a destination through the expansion of tourism and events into new urban spaces. The book outlines how parts of London not previously regarded as tourist territory are now subject to the visitor gaze with tourism spreading beyond established central zones into peripheral, suburban and residential areas – in part propelled by a big rise in peer to peer accommodation use. Simultaneously, London’s airports and sports stadiums and their surrounds are becoming destinations in their own right. New vantage points have been created, allowing tourists to explore the city: from above, at night-time or through tours given by the homeless; via the opening up of the River Thames; or through the transformation of local parks into eventscapes. The book explores these trends and shows how urban destinations expand. In doing so, it enhances our understanding of London and highlights the growing significance of tourism and events in global cities.

     
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    Contributor: Smith, Andrew (Publisher); Graham , Anne (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781912656264; 9781912656288; 9781912656295
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    Subjects: Architecture; Social issues & processes; Human geography; Urban & municipal planning
    Other subjects: tourism; London; urban, visitors; overtourism; development
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (268 p.)
  12. Musical Cities
    Author: Adhitya, Sara
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  UCL Press

    Musical Cities represents an innovative approach to scholarly research and dissemination. A digital and interactive 'book', it explores the rhythms of our cities, and the role they play in our everyday urban lives, through the use of sound and music.... more

     

    Musical Cities represents an innovative approach to scholarly research and dissemination. A digital and interactive 'book', it explores the rhythms of our cities, and the role they play in our everyday urban lives, through the use of sound and music.

     

    Sara Adhitya first discusses why we should listen to urban rhythms in order to design more liveable and sustainable cities, before demonstrating how we can do so through various acoustic communication techniques. Using audio-visual examples, Musical Cities takes the ‘listener’ on an interactive journey, revealing how sound and music can be used to represent, compose, perform and interact with the city. Through case studies of urban projects developed in Paris, Perth, Venice and London, Adhitya demonstrates how the power of music, and the practice of listening, can help us to compose more accessible, inclusive, engaging, enjoyable, and ultimately more sustainable cities.

     
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  13. Shaping Urban Futures in Mongolia : Shaping Urban Futures in Mongolia
    Author: Plueckhahn, Rebekah
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  UCL Press, London

    What can the generative processes of dynamic ownership reveal about how the urban is experienced, understood and made in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia? Shaping Urban Futures in Mongolia provides an ethnography of actions, strategies and techniques that form... more

     

    What can the generative processes of dynamic ownership reveal about how the urban is experienced, understood and made in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia? Shaping Urban Futures in Mongolia provides an ethnography of actions, strategies and techniques that form part of how residents precede and underwrite the owning of real estate property – including apartments and land – in a rapidly changing city. In doing so, it charts the types of visions of the future and perceptions of the urban form that are emerging within Ulaanbaatar following a period of investment, urban growth and subsequent economic fluctuation in Mongolia’s extractive economy since the late 2000s.

     
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    Language: English
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    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Urban communities; Urban economics; Urban & municipal planning
    Other subjects: anthropology; area studies; urbanism; Mongolia
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (188 p.)
  14. Cities After Crisis : Reinventing Neighborhood Design from the Ground-Up
    Author: Vazquez, Carlos Garcia
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    Cities After Crisis shows how urbanism and urban design is redefining cities after the global health, economic, and environmental crises of the past decades. The book details how these crises have led to a new urban vision—from avantgarde modern... more

     

    Cities After Crisis shows how urbanism and urban design is redefining cities after the global health, economic, and environmental crises of the past decades. The book details how these crises have led to a new urban vision—from avantgarde modern design to an artisan aesthetic that calls for simplicity and the everyday, from the sustainable development paradigm to a resilient vision that defends de-growth and the re-wilding of cities, from a homogenizing globalism to a new localism that values what is distinctive and nearby, from the privatization of the public realm to the commoning and self-governance of urban resources, and from top-down to bottom-up processes based on the engagement and empowerment of communities. Through examples from cities around the world and a detailed look at the London neighbourhood of Dalston, the book shows designers and planners how to incorporate residents into the decision-making process, design inclusive public spaces that can be permanently reconfigured, reimagine obsolete spaces to accommodate radically contemporary uses, and build gardens designed and maintained by the community, among other projects.

     
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  15. Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales : From Buildings to Cities
    Contributor: Rajkovich, Nicholas B. (Publisher); Holmes, Seth H. (Publisher)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales provides professionals with guidance on adapting the built environment to a changing climate. This edited volume brings together practitioners and researchers to discuss climate-related resilience from... more

     

    Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales provides professionals with guidance on adapting the built environment to a changing climate. This edited volume brings together practitioners and researchers to discuss climate-related resilience from the building to the city scale. This book highlights North American cases that deal with issues such as climate projections, public health, adaptive capacity of vulnerable populations, and design interventions for floodplains, making the content applicable to many locations around the world. The contributors in this book discuss topics ranging from how built environment professionals respond to a changing climate, to how the building stock may need to adapt to climate change, to how resilience is currently being addressed in the design, construction, and operations communities. The purpose of this book is to provide a better understanding of climate change impacts, vulnerability, and resilience across scales of the built environment. Architects, urban designers, planners, landscape architects, and engineers will find this a useful resource for adapting buildings and cities to a changing climate.

     
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  16. Care and the City : Encounters with Urban Studies
    Contributor: Gabauer, Angelika (Publisher); Knierbein, Sabine (Publisher); Cohen, Nir (Publisher); Lebuhn, Henrik (Publisher); Trogal, Kim (Publisher); Viderman, Tihomir (Publisher); Haas, Tigran (Publisher)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    Care and the City is a cross-disciplinary collection of chapters examining urban social spaces, in which caring and uncaring practices intersect and shape people’s everyday lives. While asking how care and uncare are embedded in the urban condition,... more

     

    Care and the City is a cross-disciplinary collection of chapters examining urban social spaces, in which caring and uncaring practices intersect and shape people’s everyday lives. While asking how care and uncare are embedded in the urban condition, the book focuses on inequalities in caring relations and the ways they are acknowledged, reproduced, and overcome in various spaces, discourses, and practices. This book provides a pathway for urban scholars to start engaging with approaches to conceptualize care in the city through a critical-reflexive analysis of processes of urbanization. It pursues a systematic integration of empirical, methodological, theoretical, and ethical approaches to care in urban studies, while overcoming a crisis-centered reading of care and the related ambivalences in care debates, practices, and spaces. These strands are elaborated via a conceptual framework of care and situated within broader theoretical debates on cities, urbanization, and urban development with detailed case studies from Europe, the Americas, and Asia. By establishing links to various fields of knowledge, this book seeks to systematically introduce debates on care to the interconnecting fields of urban studies, planning theory, and related disciplines for the first time.

     
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  17. Oil Spaces : Exploring the Global Petroleumscape
    Contributor: Hein, Carola (Publisher)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    Oil Spaces traces petroleum’s impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refined products have played a major role in transforming the built environment in ways that are often not... more

     

    Oil Spaces traces petroleum’s impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refined products have played a major role in transforming the built environment in ways that are often not visible or recognized. Over the past century and a half, industrially drilled petroleum has powered factories, built cities, and sustained nation-states. It has fueled ways of life and visions of progress, modernity, and disaster. In detailed international case studies, the contributors consider petroleum’s role in the built environment and the imagination. They study how petroleum and its infrastructure have served as a source of military conflict and political and economic power, inspiring efforts to create territories and reshape geographies and national boundaries. The authors trace ruptures and continuities between colonial and postcolonial frameworks, in locations as diverse as Sumatra, northeast China, Brazil, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Kuwait as well as heritage sites including former power stations in Italy and the port of Dunkirk, once a prime gateway through which petroleum entered Europe. By revealing petroleum’s role in organizing and imagining space globally, this book takes up a key task in imagining the possibilities of a post-oil future. It will be invaluable reading to scholars and students of architectural and urban history, planning, and geography of sustainable urban environments.

     
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  18. Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative
    Author: Kelly, Ashley Scott; Lu, Xiaoxuan
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Springer Nature

    This open access book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China–Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of... more

     

    This open access book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China–Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of 2021. Written from the perspective of landscape architecture and intended for planners and related professionals engaged in the development and conservation of these landscapes, this book provides history, planning pedagogy and interdisciplinary framing for working alongside the often-opaque planning, design and implementation processes of large-scale infrastructure. It complicates simplistic notions of development and urbanization frequently reproduced in the Laos–China frontier region. Many of the projects and sites investigated in this book are recent “firsts” in Laos: Laos’s first wildlife sanctuary for trafficked endangered species, its first botanical garden and its first planting plan for a community forest. Most often the agents and accomplices of neoliberal development, the planning and design professions, including landscape architecture, have little dialogue with either the mainstream natural sciences or critical social sciences that form the discourse of projects in Laos and comparable contexts. Covering diverse conceptions and issues of development, including cultural and scientific knowledge exchanges between Laos and China, nature tourism, connectivity and new town planning, this book also features nine planning proposals for Laos generated through this research initiative since the railway's groundbreaking in 2016. Each proposal promotes a wider "landscape approach" to development and deploys landscape architecture’s spatial and ecological acumen to synthesize critical development studies with the planner's capacity, if not naive predilection, to intervene on the ground. Ultimately, this book advocates the cautious engagement of the professionally oriented built-environment disciplines, such as regional planning, civil engineering and landscape architecture, with the landscapes of development institutions and environmental NGOs.

     
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  19. Terres chinoises
    Author: Leroux, Marlène
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Métis Presses, Genève

    Analyse du processus d'urbanisation massive des territoires ruraux chinois et de ses dérives Ce livre apporte des informations inédites et précieuses sur le processus actuel d'urbanisation massive des territoires ruraux chinois, 10 ans après le... more

     

    Analyse du processus d'urbanisation massive des territoires ruraux chinois et de ses dérives Ce livre apporte des informations inédites et précieuses sur le processus actuel d'urbanisation massive des territoires ruraux chinois, 10 ans après le lancement du programme national d'Edification des campagnes socialistes. En Chine, un modèle urbain expansif réussit en effet sa généralisation dans l'ensemble du pays, appliquant brutalement et quasi systématiquement, malgré de grands écarts climatiques et culturels, les mêmes préceptes urbains jusqu'au coeur des campagnes. Plus généralement, l'ouvrage traite de l'urbanisation des campagnes comme enjeu territorial, environnemental et culturel majeur. Il place le monde rural comme objet d'études à part entière, plutôt que de le considérer comme simple contrepartie de la ville. Afin de mener une réflexion en profondeur, l'ouvrage aborde l'histoire du monde rural chinois qui oscille entre permanences et ruptures. Il se focalise également sur les modus operandi de cette invasion urbaine à travers l'établissement d'un diagnostic territorial précis. Il tend à exposer le système de chaînes d'intérêts qui implique l'ensemble des composants du territoire tout en se focalisant intentionnellement sur l'aménagement intégré des territoires ruraux. L'ouvrage est augmenté dans la version numérique d'un atlas d'échantillons multi-scalaires qui rendent compte du territoire - de l'échelle d'une région à celle d'une parcelle.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: French
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9782940563548
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    Subjects: City & town planning - architectural aspects; Urban & municipal planning
    Other subjects: territoire; campagne; urbanisme; Chine; scénario; planification intégrée
  20. Zones of Tradition - Places of Identity : Cities and Their Heritage
    Author: Vinken, Gerhard
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    What is the heritage of our cities? Which are the monuments, places, and spaces in which it accumulates, and by which practices is it formed, handed down, appropriated? Gerhard Vinken takes the readers to twelve cities on three continents and... more

     

    What is the heritage of our cities? Which are the monuments, places, and spaces in which it accumulates, and by which practices is it formed, handed down, appropriated? Gerhard Vinken takes the readers to twelve cities on three continents and analyses the diverse and contradictory heritage formations that have had a lasting impact on urban life. The vitality of urban heritage, as these vivid and in-depth case studies show, lies in the dynamic and often conflictual processes of social appropriation and interpretation. Covering a diverse range of themes, the book familiarizes the reader with important questions and theories in urban research and heritage studies.

     
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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839454466; 9783837654462
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    Subjects: Urban communities; Cultural studies; Urban & municipal planning
    Other subjects: Urban Heritage; Cultural Heritage; Heritage Politics; Architectural Preservation; Reconstruction; City; Space; Memory Culture; Urban Studies; Urban Planning; Architecture
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (324 p.)
  21. Architecture as a Way of Seeing and Learning : The built environment as an added educator in East African refugee camps
    Author: Elorduy, Nerea Amorós
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  UCL Press, London

    At the beginning of 2020, 66 long-term refugee camps existed along the East African Rift. Millions of young children have been born at the camps and have grown up there, yet it is unknown how their surrounding built environments affect their learning... more

     

    At the beginning of 2020, 66 long-term refugee camps existed along the East African Rift. Millions of young children have been born at the camps and have grown up there, yet it is unknown how their surrounding built environments affect their learning and development. Architecture as a Way of Seeing and Learning presents an architect’s take on questions many academics and humanitarians ask. Is it relevant to look at camps through an urban lens and focus on their built environment? Which analytical benefits can architectural and design tools provide to refugee assistance and specifically to young children’s learning? And which advantages can assemblage thinking and situated knowledges bring about in analysing, understanding and transforming long-term refugee camps? Responding to the extreme lack of information about East African camps, Nerea Amorós Elorduy has built contextualised knowledge – nuanced, situated and participatory – to describe, study and transform the East African long-term camps, and uncover hidden agencies in refugee assistance. She uses architecture as a means to create new knowledge collectively, include more local voices and speculate on how to improve the educational landscape for young children. With this book, Amorós Elorduy brings nuance, contextualisation and empathy to the study and management of long-term refugee camps in East Africa. It is empathy, she argues, that will help change mindsets, decolonise humanitarian refugee assistance and its study. Crossing architecture, humanitarian aid and early career development, this book offers many practical learnings.

     
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  22. Enabling the City : Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Encounters in Research and Practice
    Contributor: Fokdal, Josefine (Publisher); Bina, Olivia (Publisher); Chiles, Prue (Publisher); Ojamäe, Liis (Publisher); Paadam, Katrin (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    Enabling the City is a collaborative book that focuses on how interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary processes of knowledge production may contribute to urban transformation at a local level in the 21st century, striking a balance between... more

     

    Enabling the City is a collaborative book that focuses on how interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary processes of knowledge production may contribute to urban transformation at a local level in the 21st century, striking a balance between enthusiastic support for such transformational potential and a cautious note regarding the persistent challenges to the ethos as well as the practice of inter and transdisciplinarity. The rich stories reflect different research and local practice cultures, exploring issues such as ageing, community, health and dementia, public space, energy, mobility cultures, heritage, housing, re-use, and renewal, as well as more universal questions about urban sustainability and climate change, and perhaps most importantly, education. Against this backdrop, aspirations for the 21st century are related to the international, national, and local agendas expressed in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and in the New Urban Agenda (NUA), raising fundamental questions of how to enable development. We highlight aspects of transformative learning and ways of knowing, critical to any collaborative and participatory process.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Fokdal, Josefine (Publisher); Bina, Olivia (Publisher); Chiles, Prue (Publisher); Ojamäe, Liis (Publisher); Paadam, Katrin (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780429297649; 9781000370089; 9780367277390; 9780367277406
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    Subjects: City & town planning - architectural aspects; Urban & municipal planning; Urban communities
    Other subjects: City and town planning: architectural aspects; Urban and municipal planning; Urban communities
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (310 p.)
  23. Cities and Affordable Housing : Planning, Design and Policy Nexus
    Contributor: Tsenkova, Sasha (Publisher)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    This book provides a comparative perspective on housing and planning policies affecting the future of cities, focusing on people- and place-based outcomes using the nexus of planning, design and policy. A rich mosaic of case studies features good... more

     

    This book provides a comparative perspective on housing and planning policies affecting the future of cities, focusing on people- and place-based outcomes using the nexus of planning, design and policy. A rich mosaic of case studies features good practices of city-led strategies for affordable housing provision, as well as individual projects capitalising on partnerships to build mixed-income housing and revitalise neighbourhoods. Twenty chapters provide unique perspectives on diversity of approaches in eight countries and 12 cities in Europe, Canada and the USA. Combining academic rigour with knowledge from critical practice, the book uses robust empirical analysis and evidence-based case study research to illustrate the potential of affordable housing partnerships for mixed-income, socially inclusive neighbourhoods as a model to rebuild cities. Cities and Affordable Housing is an essential interdisciplinary collection on planning and design that will be of great interest to scholars, urban professionals, architects, planners and policy-makers interested in housing, urban planning and city building.

     
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  24. Post-war Architecture between Italy and the UK : Exchanges and transcultural influences
    Contributor: Ciccarelli, Lorenzo (Publisher); Melhuish, Clare (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  UCL Press, London

    Italy and the UK experienced a radical re-organisation of urban space following the devastation of many towns and cities in the Second World War. The need to rebuild led to an intellectual and cultural exchange between a wave of talented architects,... more

     

    Italy and the UK experienced a radical re-organisation of urban space following the devastation of many towns and cities in the Second World War. The need to rebuild led to an intellectual and cultural exchange between a wave of talented architects, urbanists and architectural historians in the two countries. Post-war Architecture between Italy and the UK studies this exchange, exploring how the connections and mutual influences contributed to the formation of a distinctive stance towards Internationalism, notwithstanding the countries’ contrasting geographic and climatic conditions, levels of economic and industrial development, and social structures. Topics discussed in the volume include the influence of Italian historic town centres on British modernist and Brutalist architectural approaches to the design of housing and university campuses as public spaces; post-war planning concepts such as the precinct; the tensions between British critics and Italian architects that paved the way for British postmodernism; and the role of architectural education as a melting pot of mutual influence. It draws on a wealth of archival and original materials to present insights into the personal relationships, publications, exhibitions and events that provided the crucible for the dissemination of ideas and typologies across cultural borders. Offering new insights into the transcultural aspects of European architectural history in the post-war years, and its legacy, this volume is vital reading for architectural and urban historians, planners and students, as well as social historians of the European post-war period.

     
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  25. Urban Resettlements in the Global South : Lived Experiences of Housing and Infrastructure between Displacement and Relocation
    Contributor: Beier, Raffael (Publisher); Spire, Amandine (Publisher); Bridonneau, Marie (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    displacement; global south; housing; infrastructure; relocation; urban resettlements; pandemic; COVID-19 more

     

    displacement; global south; housing; infrastructure; relocation; urban resettlements; pandemic; COVID-19

     
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