The fabric of space: Water, modernity, and the urban imagination

Water lies at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure, crossing between visible and invisible domains of urban space, in the tanks and buckets of the global South and the vast subterranean technological networks of the global North. In this book, Matthew Gandy considers the cultural and material significance of water through the experiences of six cities: Paris, Berlin, Lagos, Mumbai, …

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Neighborhood as refuge : community reconstruction, place remaking, and enviro…

Environmental justice as studied in a variety of disciplines is most often associated with redressing disproportionate exposure to pollution, contimination, and toxic sites. In this book, Isabelle Anguelovski takes a broader view of environmental justice, examining wide-ranging comprehensive efforts at neighbourhood environmental revitalization that include parks, urban agriculture, fresh food …

Order without design how markets shape cities

"This book emerges from a 55-year career in urban planning, and is illustrated by the author's real-world experience. Without understanding how markets work, urban planners are likely to design infrastructure and regulations that will adversely impact the functioning of cities. By contrast, urban economists review decisions and outcomes after the fact, often publishing their conclusions in spec…

Promises of the political nsurgent cities in a post-political environment

The possibility of a new emancipatory and democratizing politics, explored through the lens of recent urban insurgencies . In Promises of the Political , Erik Swyngedouw explores whether progressive and emancipatory politics is still possible in a post-political era. Activists and scholars have developed the concept of post-politicization to describe the process by which "the political" is repl…

Modernity and housing

Explores the social, cultural, and expressive history of housing during two periods: the large-scale developments in the 1920s, and the widespread modernist principles in the 1970s. A theoretical and historical inquiry, the text also aims to inspire the design of modern housing.

Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities …

How small-to-midsize Rust Belt cities can play a crucial role in a low-carbon, sustainable, and relocalized future.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Squatters in the Capitalist City: Housing, Justice, and Urban Politics

To date, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the disperse research on the squatters’ movement in Europe. In Squatters in the Capitalist City, Miguel A. Martínez López presents a critical review of the current research on squatting and of the historical development of the movements in European cities according to their major social, political and spatial dimensions.　 Comparing citi…

Media Art and the Urban Environment: Engendering Public Engagement with Urban…

This text formally appraises the innovative ways new media artists engage urban ecology. Highlighting the role of artists as agents of technological change, the work reviews new modes of seeing, representing and connecting within the urban setting. The book describes how technology can be exploited in order to create artworks that transcend the technology’s original purpose, thus expanding th…

Remaking the American Dream: The Informal and Formal Transformation of Single…

"A critical examination of how single-family housing, the building block of US cities, is changing and its transformative potential for American urbanism"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.