City Outside the World
Author: Lin Carter
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2011-02-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1434430588
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Author: Lin Carter
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2011-02-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1434430588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Doreen Massey
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-04-23
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0745654827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCities around the world are striving to be 'global'. This book tells the story of one of them, and in so doing raises questions of identity, place and political responsibility that are essential for all cities. World City focuses its account on London, one of the greatest of these global cities. London is a city of delight and of creativity. It also presides over a country increasingly divided between North and South and over a neo-liberal form of globalisation - the deregulation, financialisation and commercialisation of all aspects of life - that is resulting in an evermore unequal world. World City explores how we can understand this complex narrative and asks a question that should be asked of any city: what does this place stand for? Following the implosion within the financial sector, such issues are even more vital. In a new Preface, Doreen Massey addresses these changed times. She argues that, whatever happens, the evidence of this book is that we must not go back to 'business as usual', and she asks whether the financial crisis might open up a space for a deeper rethinking of both our economy and our society.
Author: Vincent Barrett Price
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFamiliar to New Mexicans through the columns and articles he has written for various periodicals, Price presents his philosophy of what makes Albuquerque, New Mexico such an attractive place to live, and explains how to keep it that way. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Author: James Glanz
Publisher: Times Books
Published: 2014-01-21
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 1466863072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive biography of the iconic skyscrapers and the ambitions that shaped them--from their dizzying rise to their unforgettable fall More than a year after the nation began mourning the lives lost in the attacks on the World Trade Center, it became clear that something else was being mourned: the towers themselves. They were the biggest and brashest icons that New York, and possibly America, has ever produced--magnificent giants that became intimately familiar around the globe. Their builders were possessed of a singular determination to create wonders of capitalism as well as engineering, refusing to admit defeat before natural forces, economics, or politics. No one knows the history of the towers better than New York Times reporters James Glanz and Eric Lipton. In a vivid, brilliantly researched narrative, the authors re-create David Rockefeller's ambition to rebuild lower Manhattan, the spirited opposition of local storeowners and powerful politicians, the bold structural innovations that later determined who lived and died, master builder Guy Tozzoli's last desperate view of the towers on September 11, and the charged and chaotic recovery that could have unraveled the secrets of the buildings' collapse but instead has left some enduring mysteries. City in the Sky is a riveting story of New York City itself, of architectural daring, human frailty, and a lost American icon.
Author: William Solesbury
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2018-12-17
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1527523632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen living and working in cities, we need to make sense of them in order to get by. We must delve below their surface to understand what makes them tick and how we can best engage with them. This book argues that three tropes can help us: namely, metaphors, icons and perspectives. Metaphorically, we can see the city as a community, a battleground, a marketplace, a machine or an organism. Some cities are iconic; they present us with characteristics that are more generally true of cities and city life, such as Venice, Mumbai, New York, Tokyo, Paris and Los Angeles. Cities can also be viewed from different perspectives: those of artists, analysts, rulers and citizens. This book explores these ways of understanding cities, drawing on rich accounts of cities across the world and through time.
Author: Robert B. Potter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-25
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1317879686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe City in the Developing World is a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to urbanisation in developing countries. The goal of this text is to place an understanding of the developing world city in its wider global context. First, this is done by developing the concept of social surplus product as a key to understanding the character of the contemporary Third World city. Second, throughout this text, the city in developing areas is centrally placed in the context of global, social, economic, political and cultural change. Thus, the important themes of globalisation, modernity and postmodernity are examined both in relation to the structure of sets of towns and cities which make up the national or regional urban system, and in respect of ideas and concepts dealing with the morphology, structure and social patterning of individual urban areas. The City in the Developing World is a core text for second and third year undergraduates in the fields of geography, development studies, planning, economics and the social sciences, taking options which deal with development issues, development theory, gender and development and Third World development.
Author: Peter J. Taylor
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-06-02
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1134415001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeter Taylor's compelling insights challenge us to view cities as part of a global network, divorced from the constraints of national or even regional boundaries.
Author: Andrew Lees
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 019985954X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe City: A World History depicts the rise of urban centers from the middle of the fourth century BCE to the early twenty-first century. It begins in the ancient Near East, and traces urban growth and its effects throughout Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
Author: Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008-06-30
Total Pages: 1520
ISBN-13: 9047442652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe purpose of this book is to draw attention to the sites of life, politics and culture where current and past generations of the Islamic world have made their mark. Unlike many previous volumes dealing with the city in the Islamic world, this one has been expanded not only to include snapshots of historical fabric, but also to deal with the transformation of this fabric into modern and contemporary urban entities. Salma Khadra Jayyusi was awarded Cultural Personality of the Year by the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for her profound contribution to Arabic literature and culture in 2020. The paperback edition of The City in the Islamic World was published to celebrate the occasion.
Author: Martin Haake
Publisher: Wide Eyed Editions
Published: 2015-09-03
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 1847807011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTake a tour of Toronto, look around Lisbon or hot-foot it to Helsinki with this global adventure in a book! 30 best-loved cities from around the world are brought to life with illustrations by Martin Haake, which show in fabulous detail key landmarks, famous people, iconic buildings and cultural icons for all the family to enjoy. A search-and-find game on every page helps young readers to explore every city and spot the hundreds of details that makes each place unique.