Urban Resilience in a Global Context: Actors, Narratives, and Temporalities, Brantz Dorothee, Sharma Avi

Автор: Brantz Dorothee, Dumpelmann Sonja
Название: Greening the City: Urban Landscapes in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 0813942780 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813942780
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Описание: The modern city is not only pavement and concrete. Parks, gardens, trees, and other plants are an integral part of the urban environment. Often the focal points of social movements and political interests, green spaces represent far more than simply an effort to balance the man-made with the natural. A city's history with—and approach to—its parks and gardens reveals much about its workings and the forces acting upon it. Our green spaces offer a unique and valuable window on the history of city life.The essays in Greening the City span over a century of urban history, moving from fin-de-si?cle Sofia to green efforts in urban Seattle. The authors present a wide array of cases that speak to global concerns through the local and specific, with topics that include green-space planning in Barcelona and Mexico City, the distinction between public and private nature in Los Angeles, the ecological diversity of West Berlin, and the historical and cultural significance of hybrid spaces designed for sports. The essays collected here will make us think differently about how we study cities, as well as how we live in them.Contributors: Dorothee Brantz, Technische Universit?t Berlin; Peter Clark, University of Helsinki; Lawrence Culver, Utah State University; Konstanze Sylva Domhardt, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich; Sonja D?mpelmann, University of Maryland; Zachary J. S. Falck, Independent Scholar; Stefanie Hennecke, Technical University Munich; Sonia Hirt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Salla Jokela, University of Helsinki; Jens Lachmund, Maastricht University; Gary McDonogh, Bryn Mawr College; Jarmo Saarikivi, University of Helsinki; Jeffrey Craig Sanders, Washington State University.

Автор: Dorothee Brantz, Sasha Disko, Georg Wagner-Kyora
Название: Thick Space: Approaches to Metropolitanism
ISBN: 3837620433 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783837620436
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Описание: Could the concepts of "metropolitanism" and "thick space" aid our understanding of historical and contemporary urban change? Essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic provide interdisciplinary approaches to the complex dynamics of large-scale urbanisation. The book opens with conceptual questions regarding the development of metropoles and metropolitan studies. The following sections provide analyses of the social, environmental, and cultural dimensions of metropolitan spaces from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective, such as the role of planning and urban parks, the impact of ethnic diversity and segregation, the place of cinematic visions or the centrality of infrastructures and architecture.