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  • The Folklore of the Freeway

    Race and Revolt in the Modernist City

    de Eric Avila ...
    Series series A Quadrant Book
    When the interstate highway program connected America’s cities, it also divided them, cutting through and destroying countless communities. Affluent and predominantly white residents fought back in a much heralded “freeway revolt,” saving such historic neighborhoods as Greenwich Village and New Orleans’s French Quarter. This book tells of the other revolt, a movement of creative opposition, ... Leer más

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  • Walkable City

    How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

    de Jeff Speck ...
    Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical American city, the car is still king, and downtown is a place that's easy to drive to but often not worth ... Leer más

    $196 MXN

  • The Human City

    Urbanism for the Rest of Us

    de Joel Kotkin ...
    The author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism and The New Class Conflict challenges conventions of urban planning.Around the globe, most new urban development has adhered to similar tenets: tall structures, small units, and high density. In The Human City, Joel Kotkin―called "America's uber-geographer" by David Brooks of the New York Times―questions these nearly ubiquitous practices, suggesting that ... Leer más

    $176 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • SPACE, DIFFERENCE, EVERYDAY LIFE:

    Reading Henri Lefebvre

    In the past fifteen years, Henri Lefebvre’s reputation has catapulted into the stratosphere, and he is now considered an equal to some of the greats of European social theory (Bourdieu, Deleuze, Harvey). In particular, his work has revitalized urban studies, geography and planning via concepts like; the social production of space, the right to the city, everyday life, and global urbanization. ... Leer más

    Antes $1,435 MXN Ahora $1,280 MXN

  • The New Localism

    How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism

    The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges.Power is shifting in the world: downward from national ... Leer más

    $375 MXN

  • Gentrification in a Global Context

    Edición de Rowland Atkinson, Gary Bridge ...
    Series series Housing and Society Series
    Gentrification, a process of class neighbourhood upgrading, is being identified in a broader range of urban contexts throughout the world. This book throws new light and evidence to bear on a subject that deeply divides commentators on its worth and social costs given its ability to physically improve areas but also to displace indigenous inhabitants.Gentrification in a Global Perspective brings ... Leer más

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  • Insurgencies: Essays in Planning Theory

    Series series RTPI Library Series
    For nearly fifty years John Friedmann's writings have not just led the academic study of the discipline, but have given shape and direction to the planning profession itself.Covering transactive planning, radical planning, the concept of the Good City, civil society, rethinking poverty and the diversity of planning cultures, this collection of Friedmann's most important and influential essays ... Leer más

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  • Comparative Planning Cultures

    Edición de Sanyal Bishwapriya ...
    Bringing together leading planning and urban scholars, and including fascinating international case studies, this unique book investigates urban planning across the world and in different cultures. ... Leer más

    $1,193 MXN

  • Historic Capital

    Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C.

    de Cameron Logan ...
    Washington, D.C. has long been known as a frustrating and sometimes confusing city for its residents to call home. The monumental core of federal office buildings, museums, and the National Mall dominates the city’s surrounding neighborhoods and urban fabric. For much of the postwar era, Washingtonians battled to make the city their own, fighting the federal government over the basic question of ... Leer más

    $274 MXN

  • The Social Project

    Housing Postwar France

    de Kenny Cupers ...
    Winner of the 2015 Abbott Lowell Cummings prize from the Vernacular Architecture ForumWinner of the 2015 Sprio Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural HistoriansWinner of the 2016 International Planning History Society Book Prize for European Planning HistoryHonorable Mention: 2016 Wylie Prize in French StudiesIn the three decades following World War II, the French government engaged ... Leer más

    $436 MXN

  • Open Enclosed: Donald Judd

    Taking "Specific Objects," the seminal text written by Judd in the mid-sixties, as the central theme, the author analyzes the artist's main concepts and his whole career from a new perspective: "what one seeks is an object that speaks of the world in which it is moving or of the world from which it is moving away. One searches for a boundary work, a frontier, that says, simultaneously, where it is ... Leer más

    $150 MXN

  • Shaping the City

    Studies in History, Theory and Urban Design

    Taking on the key issues in urban design, Shaping the City examines the critical ideas that have driven these themes and debates through a study of particular cities at important periods in their development. As well as retaining crucial discussions about cities such as Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Brasilia at particular moments in their history that exemplified the ... Leer más

    $1,591 MXN