Urban category: 4425 books
Reimagining Detroit
Opportunities for Redefining an American City
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Suggests ways for Detroit to become a smaller but better city in the twenty first century and proposes productive uses for the city’s vacant spaces.
How We Changed Toronto
The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders...
Edge City
Life on the New Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City.
Eurostars and Eurocities
Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe examines intra-European Union migration in the cities of Amsterdam, London and Brussels.
Based on sixty in-depth interviews of free moving European citizens, and more than five years of ethnographic and documentary...
Elusive Promises
Planning in the Contemporary World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Planning in contemporary democratic states is often understood as a range of activities, from housing to urban design, regional development to economic planning. This volume sees planning differently—as the negotiation of possibilities that time offers space. It explores what kind of promise planning...
Dead End
Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens for a reason....
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
The service sector, in aggregate, now dominates total employment and value-added in OECD countries, accounting for more than 70% of these two measures, and continues to increase in importance. While services may play a slightly smaller role in rural regions than in urban areas, they are the dominant...
Buck
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
A coming-of-age story about navigating the wilds of urban America and the shrapnel of a self-destructing family, Buck shares the story of a generation through one original and riveting voice. MK Asante was born in Zimbabwe to American parents: his mother a dancer, his father a revered professor. But...
Go-Go Live
The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Go-go is the conga drum–inflected black popular music that emerged in Washington, D.C., during the 1970s. The guitarist Chuck Brown, the "Godfather of Go-Go," created the music by mixing sounds borrowed from church and the blues with the funk and flavor that he picked up playing for a local Latino...
The Ward
The Life and Loss of Toronto’s First Immigrant Neighbourhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The story of the growth and destruction of Toronto’s first 'priority neighbourhood.'
From the 1840s until the Second World War, waves of newcomers who migrated to Toronto -- Irish, Jewish, Italian, African American and Chinese, among others -- landed in 'The Ward.' Crammed with rundown housing...
A Chance to Win
Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist follows an embattled Little League team in inner-city Newark, New Jersey, revealing the complex realities of urban life in one of America's most dangerous cities
When Rodney Mason, an ex-con drug dealer from Newark's rough South Ward, was shot and paralyzed, he...
by David Rudlin, Rob Thompson, Sarah Jarvis
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
The Academy of Urbanism was founded in 2006 with a mission to recognise, encourage and celebrate great places across the UK, Europe and beyond, and the people and organisations that create and sustain them. This book is a compendium of seventy five places that have been shortlisted as part of the...
The Last Days of Old Beijing
Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the...
by Jane Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this indispensable book, urban visionary Jane Jacobs argues that as agrarianism gives way to a technology-based future, we’re at risk of cultural collapse. Jacobs—renowned author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Economy of Cities—pinpoints five pillars of our culture...