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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction
Text and black and white illustrations show how the Romans planned and constructed their cities for the people who lived within them. Text and black and white illustrations s...how how the Romans planned and constructed their cities for the people who lived within them.
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State
Samuel Stein.
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century
1. Cities Of Imagination: Alternative Visions Of The Good City, 1880-1987 -- 2. The City Of Dreadful Night: Reactions To The Nineteenth-century Slum City: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1880-1900 --... 3. The City Of By-pass Variegated: The Mass Transit Suburb: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1900-1940 -- 4. The City In The Garden: The Garden-city Solution: London, Paris, Berlin, New York, 1900-1940 -- 5. The City In The Region: The Birth Of Regional Planning: Edinburgh, New York, London, 1900-1940 -- 6. The City Of Monuments: The City Beautiful Movement: Chicago, New Delhi, Berlin, Moscow, 1900-1945 -- 7. The City Of Towers: The Corbusian Radiant City: Paris, Chandigarh, Brasilia, London, St. Louis, 1920-1970 -- 8. The City Of Sweat Equity: The Autonomous Community: Edinburgh, Indore, Lima, Berkeley, Macclesfield, 1890-1987 -- 9. The City On The Highway: The Automobile Suburb: Long Island, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, Paris, 1930-1987 -- 10. The City Of Theory: Planning And The Academy: Philadelphia, Manchester, California, Paris, 1955-1987 -- 11. The City Of Enterprise: Planning Turned Upside Down: Baltimore, Hong Kong, London, 1975-1990 -- 12. The City Of The Tarnished Belle Epoque: Infocities And Informationless Ghettos: New York, London, Tokyo, 1990-2000 -- 13. The City Of The Permanent Underclass: The Enduring Slum: Chicago, St. Louis, London, 1920-2000 Peter Hall. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [469]-543) And Index.
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World
From the acclaimed landscape designer, historian and author of American Eden, a lively, unique, and accessible cultural history of modern cities—from suburbs, downtown districts, and exurban sprawl, t...o shopping malls and “sustainable” developments—that allows us to view them through the planning, design, architects, and movements that inspired, created, and shaped them. Dream Cities explores our cities in a new way—as expressions of ideas, often conflicting, about how we should live, work, play, make, buy, and believe. It tells the stories of the real architects and thinkers whose imagined cities became the blueprints for the world we live in. From the nineteenth century to today, what began as visionary concepts—sometimes utopian, sometimes outlandish, always controversial—were gradually adopted and constructed on a massive scale in cities around the world, from Dubai to Ulan Bator to London to Los Angeles. Wade Graham uses the lives of the pivotal dreamers behind these concepts, as well as their acolytes and antagonists, to deconstruct our urban landscapes—the houses, towers, civic centers, condominiums, shopping malls, boulevards, highways, and spaces in between—exposing the ideals and ideas embodied in each. From the baroque fantasy villages of Bertram Goodhue to the superblocks of Le Corbusier’s Radiant City to the pseudo-agrarian dispersal of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City, our upscale leafy suburbs, downtown skyscraper districts, infotainment-driven shopping malls, and “sustainable” eco-developments are seen as never before. In this elegantly designed and illustrated book, Graham uncovers the original plans of brilliant, obsessed, and sometimes megalomaniacal designers, revealing the foundations of today’s varied municipalities. Dream Cities is nothing less than a field guide to our modern urban world. Illustrated with 59 black-and-white photos throughout the text.
The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City
arguably The Most Influential Document In The History Of Urban Planning, Daniel Burnham’s 1909 plan Of Chicago, Coauthored By Edward Bennett And Produced In Collaboration With The Commercial Clu...b Of Chicago, Proposed Many Of The City’s Most Distinctive Features. Carl Smith’s Fascinating History Reveals The plan’s Central Role In Shaping The Ways People Envision The Cityscape And Urban Life Itself.his Concise And Accessible Narrative Begins With A Survey Of Chicago’s Stunning Rise From A Tiny Frontier Settlement To The Nation’s Second-largest City. He Then Offers An Illuminating Exploration Of The plan’s Creation And Reveals How It Embodies The Renowned Architect’s Belief That Cities Can And Must Be Remade For The Better. Smith Points Out The Ways The plan Continues To Influence Debates, Even A Century After Its Publication, About How To Create A Vibrant And Habitable urban Environment.richly Illustrated And Incisively Written, This Insightful Book Will Be Indispensable To Our Understanding Of Chicago, Burnham, And The Emergence Of The Modern City. “an Imaginative, Beautifully Produced, And Visually Appealing Masterpiece Of Stirring Prose And Stunning Illustration. . . . Carl Smith’s Book Is A Concise, Splendidly Accessible, And Beautifully Constructed Introduction To A Seminal Work Of American Urban Planning And Its Enduring Influence On Chicago And Other American Cities.”—william Bryk, new York sunurban Historysmith Takes Up Where [pierce's history Of Chicago] Left Off, And His Work May Stand Alongside Hers As The Starting Point For Numerous Inquiries Into The Fascinating City Of Chicago.—elaine Lewinnek, urban History— Elaine Lewinnek
Collage City
This book is a critical reappraisal of contemporary theories of urban planning and design and of the role of the architect-planner in an urban context. The authors rejecting the grand utopian visions... of "total planning" and "total design," propose instead a "collage city" which can accommodate a whole range of utopias in miniature.
City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age
Acclaimed Author And Independent Scholar P. D. Smith Explores What It Was Like To Live In The First Cities, How They Have Evolved, And Why In The Future, Cities Will Play An Even Greater Role In Human... Life. For The First Time In The History Of Our Planet, More Than Half The Population-3.3 Billion People-is Now Living In Cities. City Is The Ultimate Guidebook To Our Urban Centers-the Signature Unit Of Human Civilization. With Erudite Prose And Carefully Chosen Illustrations, This Unique Work Of Metatourism Explores What Cities Are And How They Work. It Covers History, Customs And Language, Districts, Transport, Money, Work, Shops And Markets, And Tourist Sites, Creating A Fantastically Detailed Portrait Of The City Through History And Into The Future. The Urban Explorer Will Revel In Essays On Downtowns, Suburbs, Shantytowns And Favelas, Graffiti, Skylines, Crime, The Theater, Street Food, Sport, Eco-cities, And Sacred Sites, As Well As Mini Essays On The Tower Of Babel, Flash Mobs, Ghettos, Skateboarding, And Simcity, Among Many Others. -- Publishers Description Arrival -- The City In The Lake -- The Golden Door -- Skyline -- The Central Station -- History -- Origins -- The Ideal City -- New Town --necropolis -- The City Wall -- Customs -- Writing -- Street Language -- 'kilroy Was Here' -- The Voice Of The Street -- Carnival! -- The House Of God -- Where To Stay -- Downtown -- Chinatown, Little Italy And The Ghetto -- Slum City -- From Garden Suburbs To Boomburbs -- The Hotel -- Getting Around -- Walking -- Traffic -- Going Underground -- The Skyscraper -- Money -- Markets -- The Jewel Box Of The World -- Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two -- The Department Store -- Time Out -- The City And The Stage -- City Of The Mind -- Street Food -- Gladiators And Marathon Runners -- The Park -- Beyond The City -- The Wired City -- Eco-cities -- Futuropolis -- The Ruins. P.d. Smith. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
A Theory of Good City Form
With the publication of The Image of the City in 1959, Kevin Lynch embarked upon the process of exploring city form. Good City Form is both a summation and an extension of his vision, a high point fro...m which he views cities past and possible.First published in hardcover under the title A Theory of Good City Form
The City Reader
The fourth edition of the highly successful The City Reader brings together the very best of publications on the city. Classic writings by such authors as Lewis Mumford, Ernest W. Burgess, LeCorbusier..., Lewis Wirth, Jane Jacobs and Kevin Lynch meet the best contemporary writings of, among others, Sir Peter Hall, Richard Florida, Mike Davis, Michael Porter, Robert Putnam, Andrus Duany, Saskia Sassen, and Manuel Castells. New to the fourth edition are important classic writings on urban economics by Wilbur Thomson and those on bosses and machines by James Bryce, Jane Addams, and William L. Riordan, and new contemporary material on sustainable urban development, the creative class, metropolitics, occidentalism, Asian megacities, and urban futurism by The Bruntland Commission, Richard Florida, Myron Orfield, Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit, Aprodicio Laquian, and Joel Kotkin.Fifty-seven generous selections are included: a combination of forty-six readings from the third edition and eleven entirely new selections. Structured to aid student understanding, this anthology features main and part introductions, as well as individual introductions to the selected articles. Each selection is introduced with a brief intellectual biography and a review of the author’s writings and related literature, an explanation of how the piece fits into the broader context of urban history and practice, competing ideological perspectives on the city, and the major current debates concerning race and gender, globalization, terrorism, the impact of information technology on cities, civic engagement, and postmodernism.The City Reader provides the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of urban studies, old and new. It is illustrated with over forty photographs and is essential reading for anyone interested in the city.
