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Author: David Canter
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9400928025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Social and Environmental Psychology in the European Context, Lisbon, Portugal, September 22-26, 1986
Author: Academy of Urbanism (Organization)
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780415614030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines urban identity and character through various essays by architects and city planners.
Author: Ali Cheshmehzangi
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2021-04-23
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9789811539657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the hybridity of urban identities in multiple dimensions and at multiple scales, how they form as catalysts and mechanisms for urban transitions, and how they develop as city branding strategies and urban regeneration methods. Due to rapid globalisation, the notion of identity has become scarcer, more fragile, and inarguably more important. Given the significance of place and displacement for contemporary everyday life, and the continuous advancement of technologies, identifying relations and values that define humans and their environments in various ways has become crucial. Divided into seven chapters, this book provides extensive coverage of ‘urban identity’, an often-overlooked topic in the fields of urbanism, urban geography, and urban design. It approaches the topic from a novel dual perspective, by exploring cities with tangible commonalities and shared strategies for refining their identities, and by highlighting cities and urban environments characterised by multiple identities. Based on a decade of research in this field, the book provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on urban identity. In addition to comprehensive information for students, it offers a key reference guide for urbanists, urban designers and geographers, architectural and urban practitioners, decision-makers, and governing bodies involved in urban development strategies.
Author: Gwen Bell
Publisher: [Harmondsworth, Eng.] : Penguin Books
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 682
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn anthology of 45 articles selected from the journal "Ekistics"
Author: William Neill
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-10-23
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1134512856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUrban Planning and Cultural Identity reviews the intense spatiality of conflict over identity construction in three cities where culture and place identity are not just post-modernist playthings but touch on the raw sensibilities of who people define themselves to be. Berlin as the reborn German capital has put 'coming to terms with' the Holocaust and the memory of the GDR full square at the centre of urban planning. Detroit raises questions about the impotence and complicity of planners in the face of the most extreme metropolitan spatial apartheid in the United States and where African-American identity now seems set on a separatist course. In Belfast, in the clash of Irish nationalist and Ulster unionist traditions, place can take on intense emotional meanings in relation to which planners as 'mediators of space' can seem ill equipped. The book, drawing on extensive interview sources in the case study cities, poses a question of broad relevance. Can planners fashion a role in using environmental concerns such as Local Agenda 21 as a vehicle of building a sense of common citizenship in which cultural difference can embed itself?
Author: A. Mah
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-10-14
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1137283149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPort cities have distinctive global dynamics, with long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and international trade networks. This in-depth comparative study examines contradictory global legacies across themes of urban identity, waterfront work and radicalism in key post-industrial port cities worldwide.
Author: Rubina Raja
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 8763526069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study presents a comparative treatment of four East Roman provinces in the period 50 BC-AD 250 (Aphrodisias and Ephesos in Turkey, Athens in Greece, and Gerasa in Jordan), and it examines the instrumental factors behind regional and local urban developments. It argues that local communities were responsible for the organization and development of public space and buildings, which lends itself to an understanding of self-knowledge in these communities. Through a discussion of the interaction between architectural developments and historical and regional factors, this compelling study examines the interaction between the built environment, the social/political culture, and the urban identity in the eastern Roman Empire.
Author: Mohd Fairuz Shahidan
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 3031485173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alexander C. Diener
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-09-18
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1538118270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis interdisciplinary book considers national identity through the lens of urban spaces. By bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, The City as Power provides broad comparative perspectives about the critical importance of urban landscapes as forums for creating, maintaining, and contesting identity and belonging. Rather than serving as passive backdrops, urban spaces and places are active mediums for defining categories of inclusion—and exclusion. With an international scope and ready appeal to visual learners, the book offers a compelling survey of historical and contemporary efforts to enact state ideals, express counter-narratives, and negotiate global trends in cities. The contributors show how successive regimes reshape cityscapes to mirror their respective socio-political agendas, perspectives on history, and assumptions of power. Yet they must do so within the legal, ethnic, religious, social, economic, and cultural geographies inherited from previous regimes. Exploring the rich diversity of urban space, place, and national identity, the book compares core elements of identity projects in a range of political, cultural, and socioeconomic settings. By focusing on the built form and urban settings for social movements, protest, and even organized violence, this timely book demonstrates that cities are not simply lived in but also lived through.
Author: Carrie E. Benes
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0271037660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween 1250 and 1350, numerous Italian city-states jockeyed for position in a cutthroat political climate. Seeking to legitimate and ennoble their autonomy, they turned to ancient Rome for concrete and symbolic sources of identity. Each city-state appropriated classical symbols, ancient materials, and Roman myths to legitimate its regime as a logical successor to&—or continuation of&—Roman rule. In Urban Legends, Carrie Bene&š illuminates this role of the classical past in the construction of late medieval Italian urban identity.
