Tag: City

Free Download City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem
by Michael A. Figueroa
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0197546471 | 265 Pages | True PDF | 21 MB

Free Download Pietro S. Nivola, "Tense Commandments: Federal Prescriptions and City Problems"
English | 2002 | pages: 233 | ISBN: 0815760930, 0815760949 | PDF | 1,0 mb
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Free Download April M. Beisaw, "Taking Our Water for the City: The Archaeology of New York City’s Watershed Communities"
English | ISBN: 1800738145 | 2022 | 154 pages | PDF | 15 MB
Tap water enables the development of cities in locations with insufficient natural resources to support such populations. For the last 200 years, New York City has obtained water through a network of nineteen reservoirs and controlled lakes, some as far as 125-miles away. Engineering this water system required the demolition of rural communities, removal of cemeteries, and rerouting of roadways and waterways. The ruination is ongoing. This archaeological examination of the New York City watershed reveals the cultural costs of urban water systems. Urban water systems do more than reroute water from one place to another. At best, they redefine communities. At worst, they erase them.

Free Download Feras Hammami, "Heritage, Gentrification and Resistance in the Neoliberal City "
English | ISBN: 1800735723 | 2022 | 232 pages | PDF | 9 MB
What happens when versions of the past become silenced, suppressed, or privileged due to urban restructuring? In what ways are the interpretations and performances of ‘the past’ linked to urban gentrification, marginalization, displacement, and social responses? Authors explore a variety of attempts to interrupt and interrogate urban restructuring, and to imagine alternative forms of urban organization, produced by diverse coalitions of resisting groups and individuals. Armed with historical narratives, oral histories, objects, physical built environment, memorials, and intangible aspects of heritage that include traditions, local knowledge and experiences, memories, authors challenge the ‘devaluation’ of their neighborhoods in official heritage and development narratives.

Free Download John Fahy, "Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City "
English | ISBN: 178920609X | 2019 | 204 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City centers on a growing multinational community of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) devotees in Mayapur, West Bengal. While ISKCON’s history is often presented in terms of an Indian guru ‘transplanting’ Indian spirituality to the West, this book focusses on the efforts to bring ISKCON back to India. Paying particular attention to devotees’ failure to consistently live up to ISKCON’s ideals and the ongoing struggle to realize the utopian vision of an ‘ideal Vedic city’, this book argues that the anthropology of ethics must account for how moral systems accommodate the problem of moral failure.

Free Download David E. Johnson, "The 2008 Battle of Sadr City "
English | ISBN: 0833053019 | 2011 | 34 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
Using primary sources and interviews with those involved in the fighting and its aftermath, the authors describe the 2008 Battle of Sadr City, analyze its outcome, and derive implications for the conduct of land operations. Their analysis identifies factors critical to the coalition victory over Jaish al-Mahdi and describes a new model for dealing with insurgent control of urban areas.

Free Download The Smart City: How AI is Shaping the Future of Urban Life by Emily M. Foster
English | December 15th, 2024 | ISBN: 9781456659905 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 0.75 MB
Revolutionizing Urban Living with AI Innovations

Free Download City of Style: Exploring Los Angeles Fashion, from Bohemian to Rock by Melissa Magsaysay
English | May 22, 2012 | ISBN: 0062088408 | 192 pages | MOBI | 40 Mb
A stunning visual ride through L.A.’s fashion past, City of Style reveals Los Angeles’s far-reaching influence on the style evolution of the world at large-and showcases the brilliant, idiosyncratic individuals who have fueled its powerful transformations. Written by Melissa Magsaysay, the West Coast’s reigning style authority, City of Style is an irresistible look-book with a trove of fascinating stories and a beautiful photographs both classic and modern. Unlike any other style book available, City of Style sends the pulse of Los Angeles’s fashion beat right beneath your fingertips.

Free Download UNIV PLYMOUTH, "City as a Political Idea: Citizenship, Sovereignty and Politics"
English | 2014 | ASIN: B00QMFFEV2 | EPUB | pages: 169 | 0.5 mb
The question of citizenship is becoming one of the central social and political problems, where sovereignty is being challenged by globalisation and militarisation. The old model of citizenship is no longer valid in the contemporary reality of mass migrations and ethnic, religious and cultural integration. Krzysztof Nawratek revives the socio-political potential of the city as a tool for social change. He proposes to establish the city’s own sovereignty by introducing a new type of multiple and flexible city citizenship. City as a Political Idea combines reflection on urban planning, architecture, politics and society. It questions reasons for the existence of contemporary cities as well as their future.

Free Download Michael Pacione, "The City: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences. Volume 3: Economic Structure and Change in the Western City"
English | 2004 | pages: 408 | ISBN: 0415252725 | DJVU | 9,8 mb