This text looks at the origins and aspirations of innovative public space, based on a particular project unique for its time. It reveals a general lack of focus on the issue of public space in ordinary neighbourhoods, in contrast to the increasing amount of attention devoted to …
1. Environmental impacts -- 2. Environmental indicators -- 3. Methodologies and professional tools -- 4. Building eco-techniques -- 5. Applications and constructions.
A growing number of urban inhabitants are aware of pressing environmental concerns. This book provides information about relevant environmental quality criteria in urban construction settings, before methods are proposed for assessing these criteria.
"Steven Moga offers an unprecedented and multidisciplinary tour of urban lowlands, bringing a fresh perspective to the history of urban development in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Looking closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City; Black Bottom in Nashville…
Introduction : The low wards -- From bottomlands to bottom neighborhoods -- Harlem Flats : New York, New York -- Black Bottom : Nashville, Tennessee -- Swede Hollow : Saint Paul, Minnesota -- The Flats : Los Angeles, California -- Landscapes of poverty and power -- Epilogue : lo…
In 'Urban Lowlands', Steven T. Moga looks closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City, Black Bottom in Nashville, Swede Hollow in Saint Paul, and the Flats in Los Angeles, to interrogate the connections between a city's actual landscape and the poverty and social problems that …
"Steven Moga offers an unprecedented and multidisciplinary tour of urban lowlands, bringing a fresh perspective to the history of urban development in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Looking closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City; Black Bottom in Nashville…
"Steven Moga offers an unprecedented and multidisciplinary tour of urban lowlands, bringing a fresh perspective to the history of urban development in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Looking closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City; Black Bottom in Nashville…
