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Passages : Explorations of the Contemporary City
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Year: 2004 Publisher: [s.l.] : University of Calgary Press,

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Informed by the work of writers such as Henri Lefebvre, Paul Ricoeur and Michel de Certeau, this collection of essays examines through multiple lenses eight topics related to the contemporary urban domain. The author employs powerful geographic and literary concepts such as space, narrative, and metaphor to interpret the often-bewildering complexity of the post-modern city. Recalling key aspects of our shared intellectual heritage, Passages seeks to demystify the structure and historical development of the contemporary city in an accessible, engaging style. Passages is indispensable for those examining the city from either the professional design or the cultural studies standpoint.


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Passages : Explorations of the Contemporary City
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Informed by the work of writers such as Henri Lefebvre, Paul Ricoeur and Michel de Certeau, this collection of essays examines through multiple lenses eight topics related to the contemporary urban domain. The author employs powerful geographic and literary concepts such as space, narrative, and metaphor to interpret the often-bewildering complexity of the post-modern city. Recalling key aspects of our shared intellectual heritage, Passages seeks to demystify the structure and historical development of the contemporary city in an accessible, engaging style. Passages is indispensable for those examining the city from either the professional design or the cultural studies standpoint.


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Kaupunki tapahtumien näyttämönä
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ISBN: 952222989X 9522228729 9789522229892 Year: 2016 Publisher: Helsinki Finnish Literature Society / SKS

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City as a Stage explores the diverse ways in which modern cities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries presented and projected themselves, especially by staging major urban events, which have often been interpreted as major local and national turning points. In particular, the book discusses how cities were imagined through the prism provided by other cities, major events, as well as alternative pasts and futures. How –with admiration, indifference or contestation– did various urban actors engage with the city as a stage? The book paints a multifaceted picture of the history of urban events and town twinning, while at the same illustrating how students and travellers experienced cities such as Berlin, Rome, Helsinki, and Tampere. As for individual urban events, Stockholm’s General Art and Industrial Exposition of 1897, Helsinki’s 400th anniversary of 1950, and the Moscow Youth Festival of 1957 are all given their own chapter.


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Kansalaiset kaupunkia kehittämässä
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ISBN: 9789520306236 Year: 2017 Publisher: Tampere Tampere University Press

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"Urban planning and development are a meeting ground for different experiences and interpretations pertaining to the desirable city, and the ways in which citizens should genuinely be able to participate in the process. This multidisciplinary book explores broadly the question of how to best approach participation today. Instead of aiming at a singular interpretation, the book sets out to develop tools for a better understanding of the different logics behind urban development and citizen participation. The authors explore themes ranging from governmental structures and settings all the way to individual lifeworlds and experiences, and provide several well-founded propositions on what participation is about.The articles give voice to actors from the public sphere, from the third and fourth sectors, as well as to citizens in different social roles and positions. The book serves as a text book in disciplines related to urban development and participation, and as an information source for professionals and citizens interested in the topic."


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Advancing Equity Planning Now
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ISBN: 1501730398 150173038X 9781501730399 9781501730375 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cornell University Press

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What can planners do to restore equity to their craft? Drawing upon the perspectives of a diverse group of planning experts, Advancing Equity Planning Now places the concepts of fairness and equal access squarely in the center of planning research and practice. Editors Norman Krumholz and Kathryn Wertheim Hexter provide essential resources for city leaders and planners, as well as for students and others, interested in shaping the built environment for a more just world.Advancing Equity Planning Now remind us that equity has always been an integral consideration in the planning profession. The historic roots of that ethical commitment go back more than a century. Yet a trend of growing inequality in America, as well as other recent socio-economic changes that divide the wealthiest from the middle and working classes, challenge the notion that a rising economic tide lifts all boats. When planning becomes mere place-making for elites, urban and regional planners need to return to the fundamentals of their profession. Although they have not always done so, planners are well-positioned to advocate for greater equity in public policies that address the multiple objectives of urban planning including housing, transportation, economic development, and the removal of noxious land uses in neighborhoods.


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The Hub : Boston Past and Present
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Northeastern University Press

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A noted historian and author of Boston Catholics retraces the events that have continually shaped Boston and its cultural heritage for almost four centuries, making it one of the most resilient and unique cities in America. Originally published by Northeastern University Press in 2001. With a new foreword by Robert J. Allison.


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The Hub : Boston Past and Present
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Northeastern University Press

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A noted historian and author of Boston Catholics retraces the events that have continually shaped Boston and its cultural heritage for almost four centuries, making it one of the most resilient and unique cities in America. Originally published by Northeastern University Press in 2001. With a new foreword by Robert J. Allison.


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D’Angora à Ankara (1919-1950) : la naissance d’une capitale
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ISBN: 2362450732 Year: 2022 Publisher: Istanbul : Institut français d’études anatoliennes,

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Cette étude se propose d’analyser – principalement sur la base de sources turques de l’époque – les modalités d’un processus d’aménagement caractérisé par une contradiction permanente entre projet urbain et dynamiques urbaines de facto, durant la période 1919-1950. Pour chaque moment successivement distingué (quatre en tout : 1919-1923, puis 1923-1928, 1928-1938 et enfin 1938-1950) on s’efforce de prendre en compte à la fois le contexte, les acteurs et les expressions concrètes du processus. Au lendemain de la Première Guerre, Ankara est un modeste chef-lieu au cœur de l’Anatolie occidentale, qui ne compte pas plus de 20 000 habitants. Entre 1923, date de la promotion officielle en tant que capitale, et 1928, aucune « politique d’aménagement » cohérente, n’est impulsée. Si le pouvoir municipal est consolidé, le faible degré de coordination entre les parties prenantes (ministères/municipalités/acteurs privés) empêche toute réalisation effective. Les cadres du nouvel État ne trouvent pas à se loger décemment. Face à ce malaise, les autorités se résolvent à organiser en 1927 un « concours international », afin de doter Ankara d’un « plan d’aménagement » général et prospectif. En parallèle est créée en 1928 une « Direction à la Construction de la ville d’Ankara », instance dépendante du ministère de l’Intérieur. La décennie 1930 s’individualise comme celle où, relativement, le volontarisme est le plus net. Mais les moyens engagés restent insuffisants. Dès lors, l’aménagement d’Ankara est peu à peu abandonné aux intérêts privés et catégoriels. En 1950, sur une population officielle de près de 300 000 habitants, la moitié au moins est mal-logée. L’État préfère investir dans des opérations de prestige, alors que la municipalité n’a pas les moyens de faire face en matière d’adduction égalitaire d’eau. Au total, le cas d’Ankara illustre de façon frappante le divorce entre l’urbanisme de projet et l’urbanisation réelle, entre la ville rêvée/planifiée et la ville effectivement produite.


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Seeing the City Digitally : Processing Urban Space and Time
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Year: 2022 Publisher: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press

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This book explores what's happening to ways of seeing urban spaces in the contemporary moment, when so many of the technologies through which cities are visualised are digital. Cities have always been pictured, in many media and for many different purposes. This edited collection explores how that picturing is changing in an era of digital visual culture. Analogue visual technologies like film cameras were understood as creating some sort of a trace of the real city. Digital visual technologies, in contrast, harvest and process digital data to create images that are constantly refreshed, modified and circulated. Each of the chapters in this volume examines a different example of this processual visuality is reconfiguring the spatial and temporal organisation of urban life.


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Resiliencia Urbana. Una mirada académica desde el Pacífico.

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El presente libro resiliencia urbana: una mirada académica desde el pacifico, es el resultado de proyectos de investigación liderada por estudiantes de último año del programa de arquitectura de la Universidad del Pacifico y la Fundación Universitaria de Popayán, que revelan las necesidades urbano arquitectónicas de ambas ciudades y sus zonas rurales, que a través de documentos académicos responden a estas problemáticas desde al campo de la arquitectura.Una ciudad resiliente es aquella que evalúa, planea y actúa para preparar y responder a todo tipo de obstáculos, ya sean repentinos o lentos de origen, esperados o inesperados. De esta forma, las ciudades están mejor preparadas para proteger y mejorar la vida de sus habitantes, para asegurar avances en el desarrollo, para fomentar un entorno en el cual se pueda invertir, y promover el cambio positivo (ONU, 2019).

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