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The city reader

by LeGates, Richard T., Stout, Frederic

fromThe Routledge urban reader series

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The fifth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the best classic and contemporary writings on the city. It contains fifty-seven selections including seventeen new selections by Elijah Anderson, Robert Bruegmann, Michael Dear, Jan Gehl, Harvey Molotch, Clare…

The great good place: cafés, coffee shops, bookstores, bars, hair salon…

by Oldenburg, Ray

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The Great Good Place argues that "third places"--Where people can gather, put aside the concerns of work and home, and hang out simply for the pleasures of good company and lively conversation - are the heart of a community's social vitality and the grassroots of democracy.

Street art, public city: law, crime and the urban imagination

by Young, Alison

fromGlassHouse Book

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This book investigates street art and graffiti as cultural practices at the borders of legality and illegality. Cities are engaged in a continual process of cultural production through which their self-image is developed and refined; a process that is sometimes legal -- as with …

Intelligent cities and globalisation of innovation networks

by Komninos, Nicos, Komninos, Nicos

fromRegions and cities

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Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks combines concepts and theories from the fields of urban development and planning, innovation management, and virtual / intelligent environments. It explains the rise of intelligent cities with respect to the globalisati…

Urban sustainability in theory and practice: circles of sustainability

by James, Paul

fromAdvances in Urban Sustainability

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Cities are home to the most consequential current attempts at human adaptation and they provide one possible focus for the flourishing of life on this planet. However, for this to be realized in more than an ad hoc way, a substantial rethinking of current approaches and practice…

The Emergence of a Modern City: Golden Age Copenhagen 1800-1850

by Steiner, Henriette

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This book is an exploration of how urban life in Copenhagen, in the period known as the Golden Age (c. 1800 to 1850), was experienced and structured socially, institutionally, and architecturally. It draws on a broad historical source material - spanning urban anecdotes, biograp…

The new urban sociology

by Gottdiener, Mark, Hutchison, Ray

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Organized around an integrated paradigm-the sociospatial perspective-this breakthrough text considers the role played by social factors such as race, class, gender, lifestyle, economics, culture, and politics on the development of metropolitan areas. By moving beyond the traditi…

Constructing Urban Space with Sounds and Music

by Belgiojoso, Ricciarda

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While we are used to looking around us, we are less used to listening to what happens around us. And yet, the noises we produce reveal our way of life, and learning to master them is a necessity. This book aims at drawing the reader's attention to the sound of the urban environm…

The public realm: Exploring the city's quintessential social territ…

by Lofland, Lyn H.

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This book is about the "public realm" defined as a particular kind of social territory that is found almost exclusively in large settlements. This particular form of social-psychological space comes into being whenever a piece of actual physical space is dominated by relationshi…

Gentrification: a working-class perspective

by Paton, Kirsteen

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Focusing on the working-class experience of gentrification, this book re-examines the enduring relationship between class and the urban. Class is so clearly articulated in the urban, from the housing crisis to the London Riots to the evocation of housing estates as the emblem of…

Introduction to cities: how place and space shape human experience

by Chen, Xiangming, Orum, Anthony M., Paulsen, Krista E.

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A complete introduction to the history, evolution, and future of the modern city, this book covers a wide range of theory, including the significance of space and place, to provide a balanced account of why cities are an essential part of the global human experience. Covers a wi…

The new blackwell companion to the city

fromWiley-Blackwell companions to geography

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This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives. The most interdisciplinary collection of its kind Provides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established debates in the …