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  • Small-Town Renaissance

    Bridging Technology, Heritage and Planning in Shrinking Italy

    Edición de Giovanna Fossa, Brent D. Ryan, Carmelo Ignaccolo ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Can digital innovation revitalize rural communities and preserve cultural heritage at the same time?This book dives into the transformative power of digitization in rural regions—where technology isn’t just a tool, but a lifeline for local culture, economic resilience, and future development. Born from a unique research collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and ... Leer más

    $170.99 USD

  • Design After Decline

    How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities

    de Brent D. Ryan ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    Almost fifty years ago, America's industrial cities—Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, and others—began shedding people and jobs. Today they are littered with tens of thousands of abandoned houses, shuttered factories, and vacant lots. With population and housing losses continuing in the wake of the 2007 financial crisis, the future of neighborhoods in these places is precarious. How we ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Largest Art

    A Measured Manifesto for a Plural Urbanism

    de Brent D. Ryan ...
    Why urban design is larger than architecture: the foundational qualities of urban design, examples and practitionersUrban design in practice is incremental, but architects imagine it as scaled-up architecture—large, ready-to-build pop-up cities. This paradox of urban design is rarely addressed; indeed, urban design as a discipline lacks a theoretical foundation. In The Largest Art, Brent Ryan ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Design After Decline

    How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities

    de Brent D. Ryan ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    Almost fifty years ago, America's industrial cities—Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, and others—began shedding people and jobs. Today they are littered with tens of thousands of abandoned houses, shuttered factories, and vacant lots. With population and housing losses continuing in the wake of the 2007 financial crisis, the future of neighborhoods in these places is precarious. How we ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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  • Merchants in the City of Art

    Work, Identity, and Change in a Florentine Neighborhood

    de Anne L. Schiller ...
    This lively and engaging ethnography, written and designed with students in mind, uses the experiences and perspectives of a set of long-time market vendors in San Lorenzo, a neighborhood in the historic center of Florence, Italy, to explore how cultural identities are formed in periods of profound economic and social change. ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Triumph of the City

    How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

    de Edward Glaeser ...
    **Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Book of the Year Award in 2011“A masterpiece.” —Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics“Bursting with insights.” —The New York Times Book ReviewA pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities**America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Sustainable Mobility for Island Destinations

    Edición de Theocharis Tsoutsos ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This open access book presents the findings of the CIVITAS DESTINATIONS project regarding the link between mobility and tourism in urban areas and the complications tourist destinations face in becoming more sustainable. It integrates the tourist mobility needs and the associated fluctuation impacts in the design of mobility solutions in order to enforce the accessibility, attractiveness, ... Leer más

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  • Thinking Contemporary Curating

    de Terry Smith ...
    What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. these include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimagination of museums; curating as knowledge production; the historicization of exhibitionmaking; and commitment to extra-artworld participatory activism. Less obvious, but increasingly ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Crabgrass Frontier

    The Suburbanization of the United States

    de Kenneth T. Jackson ...
    This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • New Metropolitan Perspectives

    Knowledge Dynamics, Innovation-driven Policies Towards the Territories’ Attractiveness Volume 1

    Edición de Carmelina Bevilacqua, Francesco Calabrò, Lucia Della Spina ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book presents the outcomes of the symposium “NEW METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES,” held at Mediterranea University, Reggio Calabria, Italy on May 26–28, 2020.Addressing the challenge of Knowledge Dynamics and Innovation-driven Policies Towards Urban and Regional Transition, the book presents a multi-disciplinary debate on the new frontiers of strategic and spatial planning, economic ... Leer más

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  • The Assassination of New York

    de Robert Fitch ...
    Series Libro 8 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    The story of how the richest city in the world became one of the poorest in North America, with a new introduction by Peter KwongHow did New York City come to be a network of steel towers, banks, and nail salons, with chain drugstores on every block—a place where, increasingly, no one can afford to live except the lords of Wall Street and foreign billionaires, and where more and more of the Big ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Livable Proximity

    Ideas for the City that Cares

    de Ezio Manzini ...
    “Livable Proximity is a passionate and compelling call for a remaking of the city under a novel paradigm of relationality and care by one of the most accomplished design thinkers of our time.” – ARTURO ESCOBAR This book is a contribution to the social conversation on the city and its future. It focuses on an idea that has been in circulation for some time and that, in recent years, has received ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD