Urban Theory and the Urban Experience: Encountering the City
0 comments Posted by Urban Planning Theory at 1:32 PMFor the first time ever, the classic and contemporary approaches to urban theory have been brought together in an introductory text. From the foundations of Weber and Simmel to the contemporary work of Manuel Castells and the Los Angeles school, "Urban Theory and the" "Urban Experience" traces key developments in the idea of the city over more than a century, revealing the often unacknowledged debt that empirical and theoretical perspectives owe each other. Documentary, literary, and cultural sources bring theories to life, while hands-on studies and analysis of alternative ideas, such as "the garden city" and "the new urbanism" round out what is sure to be a key text for years to come.
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No man is an island, entire of itself . . . any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'. In this - Page 59
poem, where twice five miles of fertile ground with walls and towers were girdled round: And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree - Page 146
was a third alternative, in which all the advantages of the most energetic and active town life, with all the beauty and delight of the country, may be secured in perfect combination; and the certainty of being able to live this life will be the magnet which will produce the effect for which we - Page 54
city I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow. And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. - Page 100
The foundation of every division of labour which has attained a certain degree of development, and has been brought about by the exchange of commodities, is the separation of town from country. One might well say that the whole economic history of society is summed up in the movement of this antithesis. (Marx, - Page 102
something like counter-sites, a kind of effectively enacted Utopia in which the real sites, all the other real sites that can be found within the culture, are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted'. Foucault - Page 146
as one finds it in history, is the point of maximum concentration for the power and culture of a community. . . . Here in the city the goods of civilization are multiplied and manifolded; here is where human experience is transformed into viable signs, symbols, patterns of conduct, systems of order. Here is where the issues of civilization are - Page 139
around so that there be no festering and wretched suburb anywhere, but clean and busy street within and open country without, with a belt of beautiful garden and orchard round the walls so that from any part of the city perfectly fresh air and grass and sight of far horizon might be reachable in a few minutes - Page 53
white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it - Page 91
Every great city has one or more slums, where the working class is crowded together. True, poverty often dwells in hidden alleys close to the palaces of the rich; but, in general, a separate territory has been assigned to it, where, removed from the sight of the happier classes, it may struggle along as it can - Page 103
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+ By Simon Parker
+ Published 2004 Routledge
+ 272 pages
+ ISBN 0415245923
Urban Planning Methods: Research and Policy Analysis
0 comments Posted by Urban Planning Theory at 3:32 PMFocuses on the need to combine traditional research methods with policy analysis in order to understand the true nature of urban planning processes. This book describes both planning methods and their underlying concepts and principles, illustrating applications by reference to the daily activities of planning.
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+ By Ian Bracken
+ Published 2007, Routledge
+ 400 pages
+ ISBN 0415418429
Shaping the City: Studies in History, Theory and Urban Design
0 comments Posted by Urban Planning Theory at 11:32 AMThis unique text looks at the history of the city by focusing on a series of critical issues in urban design that are exemplified by cities like Paris, London, New York, Berlin, Vienna and Chicago at particular times in the 19th and 20th centuries. Each author provides a case study highlightning partiular issues of design characteristic to that city. Eleven cities are examined and chapters on the asian city, the new urbanism, the cybercity and utopia are also included. The panel of authors, each an acknowledged specialist in their chosen city, have provided a unique critique that will attract the attention of anyone with an interest in cultural geography and urban anthropology as well as students of architecture, urban design and planning.
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that: this latest mutation in space — postmodern hyperspace — has finally succeeded in transcending the capacities of the individual human body to locate itself, to organize its immediate surroundings perceptually, and cognitively to map its position in a mappable external world. 15 - Page 103
swirl of houses and streets, from this high angle, sprang at her now with the same unexpected, astonishing clarity as the circuit card had. Though she knew even less about radios than about Southern Californians, there were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate. - Page 124
looked down a slope, needing to squint for the sunlight, onto a vast sprawl of houses which had grown up all together, like a well-tended crop, from the dull brown earth; and she thought of the time she'd opened a transistor radio to replace a battery and seen her first printed circuit, The ordered - Page 123
we have paid a high enough price for the nostalgia of the whole and one, for the reconciliation of the concept and the sensible, of - Page 242
the emphasis on the body should undoubtedly be linked to the process of growth and establishment of bourgeois hegemony: not, however, because of the market value assumed by labor capacity, but because of what the ‘cultivation' of its own body could represent politically, economically, and historically for the present and the future of the bourgeoisie. - Page 249
plat, as to the breadth way of it, so that there may be ground on each side for gardens or orchards, or fields, that it may be a green - Page 138
the City of Philadelphia now extends in Length from River to River, two Miles and in Breadth near a Mile. . The City (as the model shews) consists of a large Front-street to each River and a High-street (near the middle) from Front (or River) - Page 138
semidesert, imports water three hundred miles, has inveterate flash floods, is at the grinding edges of two tectonic plates, and has a microclimate tenacious of noxious oxides will have its priorities among the aspects of its environment that it attempts to control. - Page 98
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+ By Rodolphe El-Khoury, Edward Robbins
+ Contributor, Edward Robbins, Rodolphe El - Khoury
+ Published 2004 Routledge
+ 320 pages
+ ISBN 0415261899