Enabling Urban Alternatives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Enabling Urban Alternatives write by Jens Kaae Fisker. This book was released on 2018-12-08. Enabling Urban Alternatives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book asks how thinking, governing, performing, and producing the urban differently can assist in enabling the creation of alternative urban futures. It is a timely response to the ongoing crises and pressing challenges that inhabitants of cities, towns, and villages worldwide are faced with in the midst of what has been widely dubbed as ‘an urban age’. Starting from the premise that current urban development patterns are unsustainable in every sense of the word, the book explores how alternative patterns can be pursued by the wide variety of actors – from governments and international institutions to slum-dwellers and social movements – involved in the on-going production of our shared urban condition. The challenges addressed include exclusion and segregation; persisting poverty and increasing inequality; urban sprawl and changing land use patterns; and the spatial frames of urban policy. As such the book appeals to urban scholars, policy makers, activists, and others concerned with shaping the future of our cities and of urban life in general. Additionally, it is of interest to students in urban planning, architecture and design, human geography, urban sociology, and related fields.
The Production of Alternative Urban Spaces
The Production of Alternative Urban Spaces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Production of Alternative Urban Spaces write by Jens Kaae Fisker. This book was released on 2018-10-26. The Production of Alternative Urban Spaces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alternative urban spaces across civic, private, and public spheres emerge in response to the great challenges that urban actors are currently confronted with. Labour markets are changing rapidly, the availability of affordable housing is under intensifying pressure, and public spaces have become battlegrounds of urban politics. This edited collection brings together contributors in order to spark an international dialogue about the production of alternative urban spaces through a threefold exploration of alternative spaces of work, dwelling, and public life. Seeking out and examining existing alternative urban spaces, the authors identify the elements that provide opportunities to create radically different futures for the world’s urban spaces. This volume is the culmination of an international search for alternative practices to dominant modes of capitalist urbanisation, bringing together interdisciplinary, empirically grounded chapters from hot spots in disparate cities around the world. Offering a multidisciplinary perspective, The Production of Alternative Urban Spaces will be of great interest to academics working across the fields of urban sociology, human geography, anthropology, political science, and urban planning. It will also be indispensable to any postgraduate students engaged in urban and regional studies.
Refuges 2003
Refuges 2003 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Refuges 2003 write by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This book was released on 1993. Refuges 2003 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Urban Alternatives
Urban Alternatives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Alternatives write by Edward A. Wolff. This book was released on 2013-10-22. Urban Alternatives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Urban Alternatives contains the proceedings of the USERC Environmental Resources and Urban Development Workshop held at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland in November 1975. The workshop aims to obtain information on the technical implications of various possible urban development decisions. This book details the descriptions of the workshop and the process used to arrive at the recommendations. The workshops are organized into topics of urban development, energy, communications, meteorology, water resources, public health, in-situ sensing, remote sensing, socio-economic problems, and science technology and government.
Mega-events and Urban Image Construction
Mega-events and Urban Image Construction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mega-events and Urban Image Construction write by Anne-Marie Broudehoux. This book was released on 2017-02-17. Mega-events and Urban Image Construction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The focus of this book is the influence of mega-events in the transformation of image construction practices in their host cities. It uses the idea of urban image construction as a lens through which to examine the spectacles of mega-events, with chapters exploring different themes that compose the imagineering process. The physical and social dimensions of these spectacles are addressed, as is the emerging resistance to controversial initiatives. The book explores the unique conditions of mega-event hosting by employing a political-economy point of view and focusing the analytical lenses on Rio de Janeiro and Beijing, two recent Olympic host cities with immense social inequalities.
