Tag: Urban

Free Download Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQZ2TQ81 | 2024 | 9 hours and 52 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 286 MB
Author: Wade Graham
Narrator: Paul Bellantoni
Landscape designer and historian Wade Graham follows the acclaimed American Eden with a lively, accessible cultural history of modern cities-from suburbs, downtown districts, and exurban sprawl, to shopping malls and "sustainable" developments-seen through the lens of planning, design, and the architects and movements behind 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.

Free Download Urban Metabolism of Six Asian Cities
by Asian Development Bank
English | September 1, 2014 | ISBN: 9292546600 | 76 Pages | epub | 0,07 MB

Free Download Urban Growth Analysis and Remote Sensing: A Case Study of Kolkata, India 1980-2010 By Basudeb Bhatta (auth.)
2012 | 103 Pages | ISBN: 9400746970 | PDF | 3 MB
This book documents research conducted on the analysis of urban growth and sprawl by using remote sensing data and GIS techniques. The research was conducted between 1980-2010 in the city of Kolkata, India. The aim of the research was to use metrics that were less demanding in terms of data and computation than normal metrics. However, it has been found that most of them were inferior in capturing insights of urban sprawl. For this book, some of these metrics have therefore been modified and new ones are proposed. The research focuses on problems associated with the analysis of urban growth by using remote sensing data from a technological perspective.

Free Download The Urban Fabric of Crime and Fear By Vania Ceccato (auth.), Vania Ceccato (eds.)
2012 | 354 Pages | ISBN: 9400742096 | PDF | 7 MB
How does the city’s urban fabric relate to crime and fear, and how is that fabric affected by crime and fear? Does the urban environment affect one’s decision to commit an offence? Is there a victimisation-related inequality within cities? How do crime and fear interrelate to inequality and segregation in cities of developing countries? What are the challenges to planning cities which are both safe and sustainable? This book searches for answers to these questions in the nature of the city, particularly in the social interactions that take place in urban space distinctively guided by different land uses and people’s activities. In other words, the book deals with the urban fabric of crime and fear. The novelty of the book is to place safety and security issues on the urban scale by (1) showing links between urban structure, and crime and fear, (2) illustrating how different disciplines deal with urban vulnerability to (and fear of) crime (3) including concrete examples of issues and challenges found in European and North American cities, and, without being too extensive, also in cities of the Global South.

Free Download Sustainable Urban Metabolism
by Paulo Ferrao
English | August 30, 2013 | ISBN: 026231696X | 264 Pages | epub | 2,99 MB

Free Download Gerald Groemer, "Street Performers and Society in Urban Japan, 1600-1900: The Beggar’s Gift "
English | ISBN: 1138924024 | 2016 | 434 pages | PDF | 111 MB
This book presents a thoroughly researched and meticulously documented study of the emergence, development, and demise of music, theatre, recitation, and dance witnessed by the populace on thoroughfares, plazas, and makeshift outdoor performance spaces in Edo/Tokyo. For some three hundred years this city was the centre of such arts, both sacred and secular. This study outlines the nature of the performances, explores the social relations which lay behind them, and reveals vast complexity: an obligation of gift-giving on the part of observers; performers who were often economic migrants fallen on hard times; relations of performance to social class; a class system much more finely gradated than the official four caste system; and institutions of professional organization and registration, enforced by government, with penalties for unregistered performers. The book discusses how performing, witnessing, and rewarding performance were closely bound up with economy, society and government, how the interaction between various groups related to socio-economic advancement, how the system of street performance reinforced social control, and how the balance between different groups shifted over time.

Free Download Strategies for Urban Development in Leipzig, Germany: Harmonizing Planning and Equity By Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor (auth.)
2014 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 144196648X | PDF | 3 MB
The demographic pressure caused by migration offers a considerable challenge for urban centers today. It results in an uneven development of the community and focus of urban planners becomes how to provide decent, low-cost housing and transportation in order to facilitate the integration of poorer residents among the rest of the community. In large industrialized countries the challenges of urban policy-makers are made even more complicated since these governments depend on state or federal legislators to obtain the massive amounts of funding required for adequately addressing these local issues that are in global cause. The book analyzes the strategies for urban development in Leipzig, Germany, and shows how civic leaders were able to harmonize planning and equity. They relied heavily on two interesting approaches in that process: the promotion of culture as a key component of urban development and the reconciliation of the inevitable process of gentrification with social equity. The book also looks at the globalization aspect of urban development, reviews research in social equity in urban development in Europe and the United States and describes sustainability as an important element of urban renaissance.

Free Download Shrink the City: The 15-Minute Urban Experiment and the Cities of the Future by Natalie Whittle
English | September 10th, 2024 | ISBN: 1891011898 | 192 pages | True EPUB | 1.86 MB
"[Shrink the City] surveys ways in which cities around the globe have created compact neighborhoods where residents’ daily needs are quickly accessible on foot or by bicycle-a concept known as the 15-minute city. . . . deeply researched and winsomely written. . . an invaluable overview of the cutting edge of urban planning."-✅Publishers Weekly

Free Download Sebastián Felipe Villamizar-Santamaría, "Making the Rural Urban: Inter-Class Dynamics to Protect the Environment in a Gentrifying Rural Town in Colombia "
English | ISBN: 3031583345 | 2024 | 181 pages | EPUB, PDF | 8 MB + 6 MB
This book takes the small rural town of La Calera, in the outskirts of the Colombian capital of Bogotá, as a case study to analyze how residents from different social classes – wealthier ex-urban newcomers arriving to traditionally peasant and rural areas – interact to decide how nature will be used in the face of further urban expansion. Contrary to the conflicts in other gentrification cases, including those of "green" gentrification, this book shows how newcomers and longtimers in La Calera use environmental concerns to bridge social class rifts and push the state to provide water, public space, and decision-making power.

Free Download Robert Glen, "Urban Workers in the Early Industrial Revolution (Routledge Library Editions: The Industrial Revolution)"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1138706353, 113870654X | EPUB | pages: 360 | 1.7 mb
This title, first published in 1984, focuses primarily on the early Industrial Revolution (c. 1780-1820) in the Stockport district. As the Industrial Revolution in England was the first instance of successful industrialisation, it can still provide many social and economic lessons and also furnish essential evidence for continuing debate over ideology and theory. Therefore, this title will be of interest to students of both history and economics.