Want to improve your village? Your town? Your city? A community planning event may be just what you have been waiting for. All over the world people are organizing dynamic collaborative events to improve their surroundings. For a few intensive days, everyone concerned gets an op…
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"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…
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.
"In The LEGO Neighborhood Book, you'll create buildings with real-world details like cornices and facades, and try your hand at interior design by filling your buildings with furniture and light fixtures. Then add the finishing touches to your models with plants, traffic lights,…