The city reader
By: edited by Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout
Series: The Routledge urban reader series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 800
ISBN-13: 9781138812901; 9781138812918; 9781315748504
Subjects: Ciudades; Planes urbanísticos; Urban policy; City planning; Cities and towns; Urbanismo
Description: "The sixth edition of the highly successfulThe City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new. The City Reader is the anchor volume in the Routledge Urban Reader Series and is now integrated with all ten other titles in the series. This edition has been extensively updated and expanded to reflect the latest thinking in each of the disciplinary areas included and in topical areas such as compact cities, urban history, place making, sustainable urban development, globalization, cities and climate change, the world city network, the impact of technology on cities, resilient cities, cities in Africa and the Middle East, and urban theory. The new edition places greater emphasis on cities in the developing world, globalization and the global city system of the future. The plate sections have been revised and updated. Sixty generous selections are included: forty-four from the fifth edition, and sixteen new selections, including three newly written exclusively for The City Reader. The sixth edition keeps classic writings by authors such as Ebenezer Howard, Ernest W. Burgess, LeCorbusier, Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and Louis Wirth, as well as the best contemporary writings of, among others, Peter Hall, Manuel Castells, David Harvey, Saskia Sassen, and Kenneth Jackson. In addition to newly commissioned selections by Yasser Elshestawy, Peter Taylor, and Lawrence Vale, new selections in the sixth edition include writings by Aristotle, Peter Calthorpe, Alberto Camarillo, Filip DeBoech, Edward Glaeser, David Owen, Henri Pirenne, The Project for Public Spaces, Jonas Rabinovich and Joseph Lietman, Doug Saunders, and Bish Sanyal. The anthology features general and section introductions as well as individual introductions to the selected articles introducing the authors, providing context, relating the selection to other selection, and providing a bibliography for further study. The sixth edition includes fifty plates in four plate sections, substantially revised from the fifth edition." from the publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How to study cities; title: The evolution of cities; title: The urbanization of the human population; title: The urban revolution; title: The polis; title: City origins and cities and European civilization; title: The great towns; title: Evolution and transformation: The American Industrial metropolis, 1840-1940; title: The drive-in culture of contemporary America; title: Beyond suburbia: The rise of the technoburb; title: Global city network; title: What is a city?; title: Urbanism as a way of life; title: The negro problems of Philadelphia, the question of earning a living, and color prejudice; title: The code of the street and decent and street families; title: Cities of color: The new racial frontier in California's minority-majority cities; title: The uses of sidewalks: Safety; title: Bowling alone: America's declining social capital; title: The creative class; title: Urban space; title: The growth of the city: An introduction to a research project; title: The Los Angeles School of Urbanism: An intellectual history; title: What happened to gender relations on the way from Chicago to Los Angeles?; title: Social exclusion and space; title: Fortress L.A.; title: The causes of sprawl; title: Space of flows, space of places: Materials for a theory of urbanism in the information age; title: Urban politics, governance, and economics; title: Politics; title: Broken windows; title: The right to the city; title: A ladder of citizen participation; title: The city as a growth machine: Toward a political economy of place; title: The city as a distorted price system; title: The competitive advantage of the inner city; title: The new Arab city; title: Metropolitics and fiscal equity; title: Urban planning history and visions; title: Public parks and the enlargement of towns; title: Author's introduction and the town-country magnet; title: A contemporary city; title: Broadacre City: A new community plan; title: Spectral Kinshasa: Building the city through an arhitecture of woods; title: Towards sustainable development; title: Charter of the new urbanism; title: Green Manhattan: Everywhere should be more like New York; title: Urban planning theory and practice; title: The city of theory; title: Twentieth-century land use planning: A stalwart family tree; title: Planning in the face of conflict; title: Advocacy and pluralism in planning; title: Planning for sustainability in European cities: A review of practice in leading cities; title: Urban planning in Curitiba; title: Urbanism in the age of climate change; title: Hybrid planning cultures: The search for the global cultural commons; title: Making room for a planet of cities; title: Urban design and placemaking; title: What is placemaking?; title: The neighborhood unit; title: The city image and its elements; title: The design of spaces; title: Toward an urban design manifesto; title: Three types of outdoor activities, life between buildings, and outdoor activities and the quality of outdoor space; title: Resilient cities: Clarifying concept or catch-all cliche?; title: Placemaking and the future of cities; title: Cities in a global society; title: The impact of the new technologies and globalization on cities; title: Key findings and messages; title: From global cities to globalized urbanization; title: The place where everything changes; title: Chinese cities in a global society; title: The automobile, the city, and the new urban mobilities; title: Our urban species.