by
Smith, Andrew.
Call Number
394.2068
Publication Date
2015
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
120276.5391
by
Crankshaw, Ned.
Call Number
307.12160973 22
Publication Date
2009
Summary
This work shows how to strengthen and revitalize our historic commercial districts and suburban centres. It uses examples from communities across the United States to illustrate the potential for restoring the balance provided by older urban centres between automobile access and 'walkability'.
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
95090.8281
View Other Search Results
by
Shepard, Benjamin Heim.
Call Number
307.121609747 22
Publication Date
2011
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
87260.4141
by
Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia, 1958- author.
Call Number
388.411 22
Publication Date
2009
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
3.1971
by
Lim, William Siew Wai, 1932- editor.
Call Number
307.76095 23
Publication Date
2014
Summary
This book provides a look at the state of public space in urban Asia and what issues need to be addressed to avoid the erosion of public space in emerging economies. It consists of proceedings from the Public Space in Urban Asia workshop plus selected articles and essays.
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
2.6387
by
Gehl, Jan, 1936- author.
Call Number
307.1216 23
Publication Date
2013
Summary
How do we accommodate a growing urban population in a way that is sustainable, equitable, and inviting? This question is becoming increasingly urgent to answer as we face diminishing fossil-fuel resources and the effects of a changing climate while global cities continue to compete to be the most vibrant centers of culture, knowledge, and finance. Jan Gehl has been examining this question since the 1960s, when few urban designers or planners were thinking about designing cities for people. But given the unpredictable, complex and ephemeral nature of life in cities, how can we best design public infrastructurevital to cities for getting from place to place, or staying in placefor human use? Studying city life and understanding the factors that encourage or discourage use is the key to designing inviting public space. In How to Study Public Life Jan Gehl and Birgitte Svarre draw from their combined experience of over 50 years to provide a history of public-life study as well as methods and tools necessary to recapture city life as an important planning dimension. This type of systematic study began in earnest in the 1960s, when several researchers and journalists on different continents criticized urban planning for having forgotten life in the city. City life studies provide knowledge about human behavior in the built environment in an attempt to put it on an equal footing with knowledge about urban elements such as buildings and transport systems. Studies can be used as input in the decision-making process, as part of overall planning, or in designing individual projects such as streets, squares or parks. The original goal is still the goal today: to recapture city life as an important planning dimension. Anyone interested in improving city life will find inspiration, tools, and examples in this invaluable guide.
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
2.2465
by
Engel, Ulf.
Call Number
304.2096 22
Publication Date
2010
Summary
Drawing on the rich contributions from various disciplines to the so-called spatial turn this edited volume offers insights into the way Africa is changing in terms of contested sovereignities and new regimes of territoriality.
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
1.9366
by
Higgs, David, 1939-
Call Number
305.3896642 21
Publication Date
1999
Summary
There are areas which can be described as gay space in that they have many lesbians and gays in the population. Queerspace: A History of Urban Sexuality, edited by David Higgs, offers a history of gay space in the major cities form the early modern period to the present. The book focuses on the changing nature of queer experience in London, Amsterdam, Rio de Janiero, San Francisco, Paris, Lisbon and Moscow. This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of extensive source material, including diaries, poems, legal accounts and journalism. By concentrating the importance of the c.
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
1.2506
by
Goh, Robbie B. H., 1964-
Call Number
307.76
Publication Date
2003
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
1.2068
by
Elliott, Brian, 1969-
Call Number
307.76 22
Publication Date
2010
Summary
Constructing Community examines community from the particular perspective of the shaping and control of urban space in contemporary liberal democracies. Following a consideration and critique of influential theories of community that have arisen within European philosophy over the last three decades, Brian Elliott investigates parallel approaches to community within urban theory and practice over the same period. Underlying the comparison of political theory and urban practice is a basic assumptionthat community and place are intimately connected such that the one cannot be adequately understo.
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
1.1885
by
Nielsen, Laura Beth.
Call Number
342.730853 22
Publication Date
2004
Summary
Offensive street speech--racist and sexist remarks that can make its targets feel both psychologically and physically threatened--is surprisingly common in our society. Many argue that this speech is so detestable that it should be banned under law. But is this an area covered by the First Amendment right to free speech? Or should it be banned?In this elegantly written book, Laura Beth Nielsen pursues the answers by probing the legal consciousness of ordinary citizens. Using a combination of field observations and in-depth, semistructured interviews, she surveys one hundred men and women, some.
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
1.1663
by
Dawney, Leila, editor.
Call Number
333.2 SPA
Publication Date
2016
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
1.1483
Limit Search Results