Building Cities in America
Building Cities in America

Author: Daniel Judah Elazar

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780819160966

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What is the distinctive character of America's cities? How have our metropolitan regions evolved since the Colonial period? What effect will local politics have on the future of the American city? These are the questions Daniel J. Elazar addresses in this third volume of his highly-acclaimed 'Cities of the Prairie' trilogy. Recognizing the growing alienation from local institutions on the part of city-dwellers nation-wide, Elazar explains why the restoration of local attachments should be a matter of first priority. Co-published with Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

Building the Nation
Building the Nation

Author: Steven Conn

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2003-06-23

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0812218523

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"Some anthologies seem slapdash or opportunistic; others are labors of love, informed by a mastery of a particular field and a passion for sharing the heterogeneous richness of their documents. "Building the Nation" is happily one of the latter. . . . Vastly useful."--"Preservation"

Building Cities that Work
Building Cities that Work

Author: Edmund P. Fowler

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780773511835

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Since 1945, North Americans have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on urban development, literally transforming the landscape of the continent. This development has been disastrous, Edmund Fowler maintains, because it is inordinately expensive, destructive of the environment, and disruptive of healthy social life and authentic politics. Revealing the connections between our basic cultural beliefs and why we build the way we do, he stresses that to build cities that work we must become aware of how our personal choices contribute to the form of the built environment.

Social Strategies Building the City
Social Strategies Building the City

Author: Marielly Casanova

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 3643802846

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Social housing is a complex system integrated by social, economic, political and city making processes. Social practices in the called social production of the habitat provide clues to understand an alternative way to approach housing solutions in which several dimensions coexist. Through the rationalization of social (self-management), economic (social economy) and urban principles, it was possible the construction of typologies to document and evaluate 3 case studies in Latin America. This book provides a foundation for future research and conception of social housing policies and programs.

Creating Cities/Building Cities
Creating Cities/Building Cities

Author: Peter Karl Kresl

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2017-12-29

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1786431610

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For the past 150 years, architecture has been a significant tool in the hands of city planners and leaders. In Creating Cities/Building Cities, Peter Karl Kresl and Daniele Ietri illustrate how these planners and leaders have utilized architecture to achieve a variety of aims, influencing the situation, perception and competitiveness of their cities.

Building the Nation
Building the Nation

Author: Steven Conn

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780812237344

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"Some anthologies seem slapdash or opportunistic; others are labors of love, informed by a mastery of a particular field and a passion for sharing the heterogeneous richness of their documents. "Building the Nation" is happily one of the latter. . . . Vastly useful."--"Preservation"