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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 urbanization. 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. Reviewed in: ORLIS, 3 (2014) http://blog.byhistorie.dk,01.07.2014, Mikkel Thelle Urban Studies, 52/5 (2015), David Wachsmuth

Metropolis; Metropolitanism; Media; Urban Space; Theory of Urban Studies; Urbanity; Space; Urban Studies; Sociology --- Media. --- Metropolitanism. --- Sociology. --- Space. --- Theory of Urban Studies. --- Urban Space. --- Urban Studies. --- Urbanity.

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Commonly used and designed open spaces are anchor points in the city and a possible response to the consequences of urbanization and climate change, as well as to the presence of social and cultural differences. This book explores the role of add-ons in urban open spaces: specific components for the cultivation of food, water, energy, and material production, as well as for economic and social resources. The book asks how these added elements create more resilient and sustainable urban spaces, by responding to the needs and preferences of residents and by forming connections to the surrounding urban environment. Scientific texts and opinion papers of international experts provide a unique interdisciplinary discourse depicting the diversity of add-ons from a range of micro- and macro-perspectives, and offering strategies for collaborative, multi-coded urban spaces at the intersection of architecture and open space planning. Gemeinschaftlich genutzte und gestaltete Freiräume sind Ankerpunkte in der Stadt und eine mögliche Antwort auf die Folgen von Urbanisierung und Klimawandel sowie auf soziale und kulturelle Unterschiede. Das Buch untersucht die Rolle von Add-ons in urbanen Freiräumen: spezifischen Nutzungskomponenten zur Produktion von Nahrungsmitteln, Wasser, Energie und Materialien sowie von wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Ressourcen. Es fragt, inwieweit diese hinzugefügten Bestandteile urbane Räume resilienter und nachhaltiger machen können, indem sie auf die Bedürfnisse und Vorlieben der Nachbarschaft reagieren und mit dem umgebenden Stadtraum Verknüpfungen eingehen. Wissenschaftliche Texte und Stellungnahmen internationaler Expert*innen bilden einen einzigartigen interdisziplinären Diskurs ab, der die Vielfalt an Add-ons in unterschiedliche Mikro- und Makroperspektiven darstellt und Strategien für kollaborative, multicodierte Stadträume an der Schnittstelle von Architektur und Freiraumplanung aufzeigt.

ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning. --- Public Space. --- Urban Gardening. --- Urban Space. --- Urban planning.

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cultural policies and management --- heritage administration and preservation --- culture and urban space --- ethnic groups and local governance

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In Bottleneck, anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks to launch a wide-ranging study of mobility in contemporary urban Senegal-a concept that she argues is central to both citizens' and the state's visions of a successful future. Melly opens with an account of the generation of urban men who came of age on the heels of the era of structural adjustment, a diverse cohort with great dreams of building, moving, and belonging, but frustratingly few opportunities to do so. From there, she moves to a close study of taxi drivers and state workers, and shows how bottlenecks-physical and institutional-affect both. The third section of the book covers a seemingly stalled state effort to solve housing problems by building large numbers of concrete houses, while the fourth takes up the thousands of migrants who attempt, sometimes with tragic results, to cross the Mediterranean on rickety boats in search of new opportunities. The resulting book offers a remarkable portrait of contemporary Senegal and a means of theorizing mobility and its impossibilities far beyond the African continent.

Social mobility --- Dakar (Senegal) --- Social conditions. --- Africa. --- Citizenship. --- Infrastructure. --- Migration. --- Mobility. --- Senegal. --- State. --- Structural Adjustment. --- Transnationalism. --- Urban Space.

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Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold new venture: a 'rail-road' that would link their city with the fertile Ohio River Valley. They dubbed this company the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), and they conceived of it as a public undertaking - an urban improvement, albeit one that would stretch hundreds of miles beyond the city limits. 'Steam City' tells the story of corporate capitalism starting from the street and moving outward, looking at how the rise of the railroad altered the fabric of everyday life in the United States.

Railroads --- History. --- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. --- Baltimore. --- capitalism. --- circulation. --- corporations. --- infrastructure. --- labor. --- municipal government. --- privatization. --- railroads. --- urban space.