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stephen mcgovern

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  • Urban Policy Reconsidered

    Dialogues on the Problems and Prospects of American Cities

    In the past decade, America has experienced an urban renaissance. Cities as varied as New York, Chicago and Boston are no longer seen as ungovernable and doomed to crime and blight. However, they still face formidable problems. Urban Policy Reconsidered is a comprehensive overview of the issues and problems facing our cities today and cover every important issue in urban affairs. What is poverty? ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

    A globe-trotting, eye-opening exploration of how cities can—and do—make us happier peopleCharles Montgomery's Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life.After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it better or worse for our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Culture of Cities

    by Lewis Mumford ...
    Series Book 19 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker.Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The Culture of Cities is a call for communal action to "rebuild the urban world on a sounder human ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Human City

    Urbanism for the Rest of Us

    by Joel Kotkin ...
    The author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism and The New Class Conflict challenges conventions of urban planning.Around the globe, most new urban development has adhered to similar tenets: tall structures, small units, and high density. In The Human City, Joel Kotkin―called "America's uber-geographer" by David Brooks of the New York Times―questions these nearly ubiquitous practices, suggesting that ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Well-Tempered City

    What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life

    "A thorough education in how to move from simply maximizing the economic output of cities to improving the well-being of all urban residents." —Daniel L. Doctoroff, CEO, Sidewalk Labs2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade PublisherCities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress; cauldrons of opportunity—and the home of eighty percent of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Localism

    How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism

    The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges.Power is shifting in the world: downward from national ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • City

    Rediscovering the Center

    Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time."For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior, and city dynamics. City: Rediscovering the Center is the result of that research, a humane, often amusing view of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Berlin, Alexanderplatz

    Transforming Place in a Unified Germany

    Series Book 1 - Space and Place
    A benchmark study in the changing field of urban anthropology, Berlin, Alexanderplatz is an ethnographic examination of the rapid transformation of the unified Berlin. Through a captivating account of the controversy around this symbolic public square in East Berlin, the book raises acute questions about expertise, citizenship, government and belonging. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the city ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Relaunching Titanic

    Memory and marketing in the New Belfast

    Relaunching Titanic critically considers the invocation of Titanic heritage in Belfast in contributing to a new ‘post-conflict’ understanding of the city. The authors address how the memory of Titanic is being and should be represented in the place of its origin, from where it was launched into the collective consciousness and unconscious of western civilization.Relaunching Titanic examines the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Shaping the City

    Studies in History, Theory and Urban Design

    Taking on the key issues in urban design, Shaping the City examines the critical ideas that have driven these themes and debates through a study of particular cities at important periods in their development. As well as retaining crucial discussions about cities such as Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Brasilia at particular moments in their history that exemplified the ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Mega-Events and Legacies in Post-Metropolitan Spaces

    Expos and Urban Agendas

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers new perspectives through which to observe and interpret mega-events. Using the specific case studies of World’s Fairs, Di Vita and Morandi present a report of the Milan Expo 2015 and its trans-scalar legacies. While the event and post-event have been affected by the world crisis, the locations of exhibition areas have greatly expanded, encompassing regional as well as post ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Istanbul

    Living with Difference in a Global City

    Series series New Directions in International Studies
    Istanbul explores how to live with difference through the prism of an age-old, cutting-edge city whose people have long confronted the challenge of sharing space with the Other. Located at the intersection of trade networks connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, Istanbul is western and eastern, northern and southern, religious and secular. Heir of ancient empires, Istanbul is the premier city of a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD