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The reputation of the city street has long been ambivalent. From ancient times to the threatening events in the twenty-first century, it has been seen as a potentially dangerous gathering spot. Everything was done in our industrial world to reserve the street exclusively for fast mobility by leaving immense space for cars and transportation. It is now time for us to reinvent the street, to help it recover its original identity as a place for social exchanges. Thanks to technology (terminals, screens, geo-tracking), it is possible to regain the street's true meaning, to reclaim its dimension as a place for encounters, events and discoveries, to rethink it and integrate the concept of "slowness.". A new kind of design and a new kind of experience are appearing at the heart of questions about smart cities and civic tech. Reimagining the street means fundamentally transforming our way of life in order to serve the public.

Sociology, Urban. --- Technology --- Streetscapes (Urban design) --- Social aspects.

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Written from a digital humanities perspective, this book combines historical sources, maps, and a walking cartography to create new perspectives on the nineteenth-century history of Lagos, West Africa's most populous city. What traces do people leave in the places where they live, and even where they die? This book addresses the spatial history of nineteenth-century Lagos, rebuilding its past as a series of encounters: between men and women, between past and present, between enslaved and free, between living and dead, and finally between land and lagoon. In Imagine Lagos, Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi argues that the invention, destruction, and reinvention of spatial markers in Lagos-the streets, markets, roads, squares, palaces, and lagoons where these encounters occurred-was crucial to negotiations over identity, power, and freedom. Research for this book combines oral and archival sources from three countries with the experience of three summers of walking the streets of Lagos. Contrary to historical interpretations that render the physical city as a blank, featureless space in desperate need of constant repair, this book offers a variety of visual and textual narratives to push readers to imagine the old city. Throughout Imagine Lagos, historical maps join other texts-including colonial correspondence and reports, missionary letters, oríkì (Yoruba praise poetry), and newspaper articles-to create a complex collage of urban life in Lagos. Streets emerge as sites of historical memories, and Adelusi-Adeluyi's maps of the mid-nineteenth-century city reveal and catalog layers of change. A focus on the city as a whole-as both a physical and social landscape-brings us closer than ever to understanding the lives of Lagosians between 1845 and 1872. In old Lagos, the streets keep their histories.

City and town life --- Streetscapes (Urban design) --- History --- Lagos (Nigeria)

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Countering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and that urban areas were immune from its impacts, Slavery in the City is the first volume to deal exclusively with the impact of North American slavery on urban design and city life during the antebellum period. This groundbreaking collection of essays brings together studies from diverse disciplines, including architectural history, historical archaeology, geography, and American studies. The contributors analyze urban sites and landscapes that are likewise varied, from the back lots of nineteenth-century Charleston townhouses to movements of enslaved workers through the streets of a small Tennessee town. These essays not only highlight the diversity of the slave experience in the antebellum city and town but also clearly articulate the common experience of conflict inherent in relationships based on power, resistance, and adaptation. Slavery in the City makes significant contributions to our understanding of American slavery and offers an essential guide to any study of slavery and the built environment.

Environmental planning --- Architecture --- History of North America --- slavery --- streetscapes --- architecture [object genre] --- Caribbean area --- Architecture and society --- Slaves --- Space (Architecture) --- Streetscapes (Urban design) --- History --- Social conditions --- Social aspects --- Architecture and space --- Negative space (Architecture) --- Space and architectural mass --- Space in architecture --- City planning --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Slavery --- Urban streetscapes --- Cultural landscapes --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Composition, proportion, etc. --- Human factors --- Architecture et société --- Esclaves --- Paysages de rue (Urbanisme) --- Espace (Architecture) --- Histoire --- Conditions sociales --- Aspect social

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"The positive effects of urban green spaces are well-known, ranging from the promotion of health, support of biodiversity to climate regulation. However, the practical implementation of urban landscapes is less discussed. How can we make these spaces functional, economically feasible and inclusive, especially as cities become more diverse? The publication explores strategies to reconcile the various demands, such as food production, resilience and nature conservation. Indeed, urban landscapes have to be restorative, ecological and aesthetically pleasing at the same time. This is a particular challenge in high-density cities like Singapore, Seoul or New York where space is a scarce commodity. The continuing growth of the worldwide urban population imbues the topic with a special urgency."--

Architecture --- Urban landscape architecture --- City planning --- Space (Architecture) --- Public spaces --- History --- Duurzame stedenbouw --- Ecosystemen --- Openbare ruimte --- Environmental planning --- ecology --- urban landscapes --- parks [public recreation areas] --- streetscapes

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Bus stops --- City planning --- Joslin Park, Boston (Mass.) --- Longwood Medical Area --- Open spaces --- Parking --- Parks and Playgrounds --- Pedestrians --- Proposals --- Proposed --- Public art --- Shattuck Street Mall, Boston (Mass.) --- Signs and symbols --- Streetscapes and Landscapes --- Trees --- Boston --- Massachusetts