Sociable Cities - 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 Sociable Cities write by Peter Hall. This book was released on 2014-06-05. Sociable Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Peter Hall and Colin Ward wrote Sociable Cities to celebrate the centenary of publication of Ebenezer Howard’s To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1998 – an event they then marked by co-editing (with Dennis Hardy) the magnificent annotated facsimile edition of Howard’s original, long lost and very scarce, in 2003. In this revised edition of Sociable Cities, sadly now without Colin Ward, Peter Hall writes: ‘the sixteen years separating the two editions of this book seem almost like geological time. Revisiting the 1998 edition is like going back deep into ancient history’. The glad confident morning following Tony Blair’s election has been followed by political disillusionment, the fiscal crash, widespread austerity and a marked anti-planning stance on the part of the Coalition government. But – closely following the argument of Good Cities, Better Lives: How Europe discovered the Lost Art of Urbanism (Routledge 2013), to which this book is designed as a companion – Hall argues that the central message is now even stronger: we need more planning, not less. And this planning needs to be driven by broad, high-level strategic visions – national, regional – of the kind of country we want to see. Above all, Hall shows in the concluding chapters, Britain’s escalating housing crisis can be resolved only by a massive programme of planned decentralization from London, at least equal in scale to the great Abercrombie plan seventy years ago. He sets out a picture of great new city clusters at the periphery of South East England, sustainably self-sufficient in their daily patterns of living and working, but linked to the capital by new high-speed rail services. This is a book that every planner, and every serious student of policy-making, will want to read. Published at a time when the political parties are preparing their policy manifestos, it is designed to make a major contribution to a major national debate.
The Neighborhood as a Social and Spatial Unit in Mesoamerican Cities
The Neighborhood as a Social and Spatial Unit in Mesoamerican Cities - 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 Neighborhood as a Social and Spatial Unit in Mesoamerican Cities write by M. Charlotte Arnauld. This book was released on 2012-12-01. The Neighborhood as a Social and Spatial Unit in Mesoamerican Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent realizations that prehispanic cities in Mesoamerica were fundamentally different from western cities of the same period have led to increasing examination of the neighborhood as an intermediate unit at the heart of prehispanic urbanization. This book addresses the subject of neighborhoods in archaeology as analytical units between households and whole settlements. The contributions gathered here provide fieldwork data to document the existence of sociopolitically distinct neighborhoods within ancient Mesoamerican settlements, building upon recent advances in multi-scale archaeological studies of these communities. Chapters illustrate the cultural variation across Mesoamerica, including data and interpretations on several different cities with a thematic focus on regional contrasts. This topic is relatively new and complex, and this book is a strong contribution for three interwoven reasons. First, the long history of research on the “Teotihuacan barrios” is scrutinized and withstands the test of new evidence and comparison with other Mesoamerican cities. Second, Maya studies of dense settlement patterns are now mature enough to provide substantial case studies. Third, theoretical investigation of ancient urbanization all over the world is now more complex and open than it was before, giving relevance to Mesoamerican perspectives on ancient and modern societies in time and space. This volume will be of interest not only to scholars and student specialists of the Mesoamerican past but also to social scientists and urbanists looking to contrast ancient cultures worldwide.
Sociable Cities
Sociable Cities - 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 Sociable Cities write by Peter Hall. This book was released on 1998-11-30. Sociable Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sociable Cities assesses how Howard's work has faced up to the concerns of the 20th Century.
The Social City
The Social City - 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 Social City write by Mats Deland. This book was released on 2001. The Social City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Cities by Design
Cities by Design - 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 Cities by Design write by Fran Tonkiss. This book was released on 2014-01-21. Cities by Design available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process and examines the close relationship between the social and physical shaping of urban environments. With cities taking a growing share of the global population, urban forms and urban experience are crucial for understanding social injustice, economic inequality and environmental challenges. Current processes of urbanization too often contribute to intensifying these problems; cities, likewise, will be central to the solutions to such problems. Focusing on a range of cities in developed and developing contexts, Cities by Design highlights major aspects of contemporary urbanization: urban growth, density and sustainability; inequality, segregation and diversity; informality, environment and infrastructure. Offering keen insights into how the shaping of our cities is shaping our lives, Cities by Design provides a critical exploration of key issues and debates that will be invaluable to students and scholars in sociology and geography, environmental and urban studies, architecture, urban design and planning.
