The Growth of the City
Author : Ernest Watson Burgess
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 1935
Category : Sociology, Urban
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Author : Ernest Watson Burgess
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 1935
Category : Sociology, Urban
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Author : Allan Pred
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 18,41 MB
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674930919
In this major new work of urban geography, Allan Pred interprets the process by which major cities grew and the entire city-system of the United States developed during the antebellum decades. The book focuses on the availability and distribution of crucial economic information. For as cities developed, this information helped determine the new urban areas in which business opportunities could be exploited and productive innovations implemented. Pred places this original approach to urbanization in the context of earlier, more conventional studies, and he supports his view by a wealth of evidence regarding the flow of commodities between major cities. He also draws on an analysis of newspaper circulation, postal services, business travel, and telegraph usage. Pred's book goes far beyond the usual "biographies" of individual cities or the specialized studies of urban life. It offers a large and fascinating view of the way an entire city-system was put together and made to function. Indeed, by providing the first full account of these two decades of American urbanization, Pred has supplied a vital and hitherto missing link in the history of the United States.
Author : John Marzluff
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 35,90 MB
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387734120
Urban Ecology is a rapidly growing field of academic and practical significance. Urban ecologists have published several conference proceedings and regularly contribute to the ecological, architectural, planning, and geography literature. However, important papers in the field that set the foundation for the discipline and illustrate modern approaches from a variety of perspectives and regions of the world have not been collected in a single, accessible book. Foundations of Urban Ecology does this by reprinting important European and American publications, filling gaps in the published literature with a few, targeted original works, and translating key works originally published in German. This edited volume will provide students and professionals with a rich background in all facets of urban ecology. The editors emphasize the drivers, patterns, processes and effects of human settlement. The papers they synthesize provide readers with a broad understanding of the local and global aspects of settlement through traditional natural and social science lenses. This interdisciplinary vision gives the reader a comprehensive view of the urban ecosystem by introducing drivers, patterns, processes and effects of human settlements and the relationships between humans and other animals, plants, ecosystem processes, and abiotic conditions. The reader learns how human institutions, health, and preferences influence, and are influenced by, the others members of their shared urban ecosystem.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 2020-06-16
Category :
ISBN : 9264376666
Cities are not only home to around half of the global population but also major centers of economic activity and innovation. Yet, so far there has been no consensus of what a city really is. Substantial differences in the way cities, metropolitan, urban, and rural areas are defined across countries hinder robust international comparisons and an accurate monitoring of SDGs. The report Cities in the World: A New Perspective on Urbanisation addresses this void and provides new insights on urbanisation by applying for the first time two new definitions of human settlements to the entire globe: the Degree of Urbanisation and the Functional Urban Area.
Author : Adna Ferrin Weber
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN :
Author : Association of American Geographers. Meeting
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 1999-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791442593
Two decades after Harvey Molotch’s “city as a growth machine,” this book offers a unique, critical assessment of his thesis.
Author : University of California, Berkeley. City and Regional Planning Extension
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 1964
Category :
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Author : Susan S. Fainstein
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 37,42 MB
Release : 2011-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0801462185
For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of neoliberalism has caused the allocation of spatial, political, economic, and financial resources to favor economic growth at the expense of wider social benefits. Susan Fainstein's concept of the "just city" encourages planners and policymakers to embrace a different approach to urban development. Her objective is to combine progressive city planners' earlier focus on equity and material well-being with considerations of diversity and participation so as to foster a better quality of urban life within the context of a global capitalist political economy. Fainstein applies theoretical concepts about justice developed by contemporary philosophers to the concrete problems faced by urban planners and policymakers and argues that, despite structural obstacles, meaningful reform can be achieved at the local level. In the first half of The Just City, Fainstein draws on the work of John Rawls, Martha Nussbaum, Iris Marion Young, Nancy Fraser, and others to develop an approach to justice relevant to twenty-first-century cities, one that incorporates three central concepts: diversity, democracy, and equity. In the book's second half, Fainstein tests her ideas through case studies of New York, London, and Amsterdam by evaluating their postwar programs for housing and development in relation to the three norms. She concludes by identifying a set of specific criteria for urban planners and policymakers to consider when developing programs to assure greater justice in both the process of their formulation and their effects.
Author : Alexander Holmes
Publisher : Chartwell Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,7 MB
Release : 2007-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780785822165
These portable guides incorporate historical facts with an intriguing narrative, helping to show the reader how each city (or state) got its start. From their humble beginnings to the powerhouses they've become, each of the cities in this series has its own unique style and imprint. Feats of architecture, the Puritans, the Boston Tea Party and hundreds of other key points in Boston's history are represented here both in words and in stunning full-color photography.
Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 2015-01-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464803641
This study uses satellite imagery and population data for the decade 2000 to 2010 in order to map urban areas and populations across the entire East Asia region, identifying 869 urban areas with populations over 100,000, allowing us for the first time to understand patterns in urbanization in East Asia.