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Thursday, November 8, 2018
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Sustainable Cities for the Third Millennium: The Odyssey of Urban Excellence
Sustainable Cities for the Third Millennium: The Odyssey of Urban Excellence
2010 | 233 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book offers a 360 degree view of the challenges facing cities at the dawn of the millennium in terms of growth, governance, institutions and infrastructures, environmental well-being, social integration, science, culture and the arts, urban renaissance and planning, local democracy and citizenship. One year afte the crisis that started in 2008, the book presents responses to overcome the crisis of values and engage in a sustainability path from European and world cities.
Cities are propellers of sustainable growth, theatres of values, schools of skills and abilities, beacons of culture and temples of citizen duties and rights. Aristotle called them “built politics”, places which have the noble aim to offer citizens a fulfilling and worthy life. Cities have always been beehives of cross-fertilised creativity, the only places where people and resources congregate at a point beyond which synergetic effects become more important than the simply additive ones.
The book offers a 360° view of the challenges facing cities at the dawn of the millennium in terms of growth, governance, environmental well-being, social inclusion, science, culture and the arts, urban renaissance and planning. One year after the crisis that started in 2008, the book presents responses to overcome the crisis of values and engage in a sustainability path from European and world cities. It tries to distil useful messages for all cities wishing to adopt bolder and better policy initiatives.
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Travel by Design: The Influence of Urban Form on Travel
Travel by Design:
The Influence of Urban Form on Travel
2001 | 240 pages | PDF | 15 MB
Can transportation problems be fixed by the right neighborhood design? The tremendous popularity of the "new urbanism" and "livable communities" initiatives suggests that many persons think so. As a systematic assessment of attempts to solve transportation problems through urban design, this book asks and answers three questions: Can such efforts work? Will they be put into practice? Are they a good idea?
Monday, July 9, 2018
Beyond City Limits: Urban Policy and Economic Reconstructuring in Comparative Perspective
Beyond City Limits:
Urban Policy and Economic Reconstructuring in Comparative Perspective
1991 | 275 pages | PDF | 10,7 MB
This book challenges the notion that there is a single, global process of economic restructuring to which cities must submit.
The studies in this volume compare urban development in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan, demonstrating that there is significant variety in urban economic restructuring.
The contributors emphasize that the economic forces transforming cities from industrial concentrations to post industrial service centers do not exist apart from politics: all nation-states are heavily involved in the restructuring process.
John R. Logan is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Albany.
Todd Swanstrom is Associate Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Albany and the author of "The Crisis of Growth Politics: Cleveland, Kucinich, and the Challenge of Urban Populism (Temple)".
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Thursday, June 7, 2018
State, Space, World: Selected Essays
State, Space, World: Selected Essays
PDF | 320 pages | 4.41 MB
One of the most influential Marxist theorists of the twentieth century, Henri Lefebvre pioneered the study of the modern state in an age of accelerating global economic integration and fragmentation.
One of the most influential Marxist theorists of the twentieth century, Henri Lefebvre pioneered the study of the modern state in an age of accelerating global economic integration and fragmentation.
Shortly after the 1974 publication of his landmark book The Production of Space, Henri Lefebvre embarked on one of the most ambitious projects of his career: a consideration of the history and geographies of the modern state through a monumental study that linked several disciplines, including political science, sociology, geography, and history.
State, Space, World collects a series of Lefebvre’s key writings on the state from this period.
Making available in English for the first time the as-yet-unexplored political aspect of Lefebvre’s work, it contains essays on philosophy, political theory, state formation, spatial planning, and globalization, as well as provocative reflections on the possibilities and limits of grassroots democracy under advanced capitalism.
State, Space, World is an essential complement to The Production of Space, The Urban Revolution, and The Critique of Everyday Life. Lefebvre’s original and prescient analyses that emerge in this volume are urgently relevant to contemporary debates on globalization and neoliberal capitalism.
Friday, April 13, 2018
Egyptian Towns and Cities
Egyptian Towns and Cities
(Shire Egyptology)
PDF | 72 pages | 3,2 Mb
This book surveys the main kinds of urban settlement and town planning that existed in ancient Egypt before the town planning. The evolution and growth of Predynastic villages is traced as an essential prelude to the much greater achievements of the Pharaohs in establishing first towns and then cities. The later growths are shown to be of two basic types, royal foundations and those which underwent a natural expansion throughout history. From this they are classified as constituting various standard types based on function: provincial centres, planned workmen's villages, military and frontier towns, towns inhabited by funerary priests and, ultimately, royal residences and the capitals. The range of size and material is tremendous, covering small closely knit communities of a few hundred people, towns with several thousand inhabitants and vast cities, as large as any in the ancient world, with tens of thousands of citizens.
This book surveys the main kinds of urban settlement and town planning that existed in ancient Egypt before the town planning. The evolution and growth of Predynastic villages is traced as an essential prelude to the much greater achievements of the Pharaohs in establishing first towns and then cities. The later growths are shown to be of two basic types, royal foundations and those which underwent a natural expansion throughout history. From this they are classified as constituting various standard types based on function: provincial centres, planned workmen's villages, military and frontier towns, towns inhabited by funerary priests and, ultimately, royal residences and the capitals. The range of size and material is tremendous, covering small closely knit communities of a few hundred people, towns with several thousand inhabitants and vast cities, as large as any in the ancient world, with tens of thousands of citizens.
Monday, April 9, 2018
Islamic Architecture In Cairo : An Introduction
Islamic Architecture In Cairo : An Introduction
175 pages | PDF | 35 MB
Combining an analysis of Cairo's urban growth from the Islamic conquest up to the reign of Muhammad 'Ali, an overview of its main architectural styles, a descriptive catalog of the major monuments, and a discussion of domestic architecture, this concise and comprehensive study will appeal to specialists as well as beginning students and interested lay readers.
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Combining an analysis of Cairo's urban growth from the Islamic conquest up to the reign of Muhammad 'Ali, an overview of its main architectural styles, a descriptive catalog of the major monuments, and a discussion of domestic architecture, this concise and comprehensive study will appeal to specialists as well as beginning students and interested lay readers.
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Sunday, March 11, 2018
Urban Drainage, 3rd Edition
Urban Drainage, 3rd Edition
covers the environmental and engineering aspects involved in the drainage of rainwater and wastewater from areas of human development.
Saturday, March 10, 2018
Public Places Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design, 2nd Edition
Public Places Urban Spaces:
The Dimensions of Urban Design, 2nd Edition
408 pages | EPUB | 8,4 MB
Planning Middle Eastern Cities
Planning Middle Eastern Cities
An urban kaleidoscope in a globalizing world
How did colonial influences change the urban form of the Arab capitals?
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