#CityReflections

#CityReflections
Author: Sameer Unhale
Publisher: IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2022-10-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 8195640303

‘#CityReflections: A Practitioner’s Experience in Urban Governance amidst Uncertain Times’ by Sameer Unhale is a compilation of perspectives and experiences based on the author's reflections on myriad issues of importance to urban study and practice. The book aims to reiterate the need for effective and sustainable urban development, and inspire active participation among urban practitioners towards the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals in “New India”.

Renewing the City

Renewing the City
Author: Robert D. Lupton
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2005-07-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830833269

Community developer and urban activist Robert D. Lupton looks to the Old Testament example of Nehemiah as a role model for community transformation and renewal.

World City

World City
Author: Doreen Massey
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2013-04-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0745654827

Cities around the world are striving to be 'global'. This book tells the story of one of them, and in so doing raises questions of identity, place and political responsibility that are essential for all cities. World City focuses its account on London, one of the greatest of these global cities. London is a city of delight and of creativity. It also presides over a country increasingly divided between North and South and over a neo-liberal form of globalisation - the deregulation, financialisation and commercialisation of all aspects of life - that is resulting in an evermore unequal world. World City explores how we can understand this complex narrative and asks a question that should be asked of any city: what does this place stand for? Following the implosion within the financial sector, such issues are even more vital. In a new Preface, Doreen Massey addresses these changed times. She argues that, whatever happens, the evidence of this book is that we must not go back to 'business as usual', and she asks whether the financial crisis might open up a space for a deeper rethinking of both our economy and our society.

Cork City Reflections

Cork City Reflections
Author: Kieran McCarthy
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2021-06-15
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1398104590

A fascinating collection of merged historic and modern images that reflect the changes in the city of Cork through the decades.

Pragmatic Justifications for the Sustainable City

Pragmatic Justifications for the Sustainable City
Author: Meg Holden
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2017-03-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317309480

What can justice and sustainability mean, pragmatically speaking, in today’s cities? Can justice be the basis on which the practices of city building rely? Can this recognition constitute sustainability in city building, from a pragmatic perspective? Today, we are faced with a mountain of reasons to lose hope in any prospect of moving closer to justice and sustainability from our present position in civilization. Pragmatic Justifications for the Sustainable City: Acting in the Common Place offers a critical and philosophical approach to revaluating the way in which we think and talk about the "sustainable city" to ensure that we neither lose the thread of our urban history, nor the means to live well amidst diversity of all kinds. By building and rebuilding better habits of urban thinking, this book promotes the reconstruction of moral thinking, paving the way for a new urban sustainability model of justice. Utilizing multidisciplinary case studies and building upon anti-foundationalist principles, this book offers a pragmatic interpretation of sustainable development concepts within our emerging global urban context and will be a valuable resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as academics and professionals in the areas of urban and planning policy, sociology, and urban and environmental geography.

Reflecting on the City Through Literature

Reflecting on the City Through Literature
Author: Daan Wesselman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2023-10-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1000906477

This book develops and demonstrates an interdisciplinary method that reads literary works as a way of thinking about the city. Literary works do not only provide reflections of the city – depictions of the city as an aesthetically compelling setting – but the literary reflection of the city also offers a critical reflection on the city. How can spatial difference be conceived in cities that are changing beyond the form of the classical modern metropolis of the early 20th century? How can one think of the relation between individual urban subjects and their urban environment, when neither spaces nor discourses of the city provide them with an answer to the question where they might "belong"? How does the human body interact with its urban surroundings, and how should technological mediations be thought of? This book approaches these questions through analysing literary texts, focusing on concepts like heterotopia, non-place and the posthuman. This book will be of interest to interdisciplinary scholars and students of the city, particularly in the fields of Urban Studies, Literary Studies, Geography, and Architecture.

Red Light City

Red Light City
Author: James Scott
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2015-06-15
Genre:
ISBN: 1783017538

The memoir is that of a cab driver whose constant exposure to criminal violence on the night streets as a first-hand observer, resulting in his regularly being called as a court witness, opened his eyes to the practice of the justice system in action, and led to his disenchantment with the law courts' apparent lack of equitable restitution and retribution.Following an assault which left him scarred, he eventually formed alliance with underworld acquaintances whom he met in the course of nightshift working, and this subsequently resulted in a philosophy of taking the law into his own hands in response to confrontation by criminal violence.The memoir also sheds light on lesser known twilight aspects of human behaviour, and exposes the covert municipal practice of the red light traffic policy, a subterfuge which is not generally understood.

The City as a Work of Art

The City as a Work of Art
Author: Donald J. Olsen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780300042122

Examines public buildings and homes in ninteenth-century London, Paris, and Vienna, and explains how each city reflected the characteristic lifestyle of its population.

The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, The City and Urban Society

The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, The City and Urban Society
Author: Michael E. Leary-Owhin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2019-11-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1351970534

The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre,The City and Urban Society is the first edited book to focus on Lefebvre's urban theories and ideas from a global perspective, making use of recent theoretical and empirical developments, with contributions from eminent as well as emergent global scholars. The book provides international comparison of Lefebvrian research and theoretical conjecture and aims; to engage with and critique Lefebvre's ideas in the context of contemporary urban, social and environmental upheavals; to use Lefebvre's spatial triad as a research tool as well as a point of departure for the adoption of ideas such as differential space; to reassess Lefebvre's ideas in relation to nature and global environmental sustainability; and to highlight how a Lefebvrian approach might assist in mobilising resistance to the excesses of globalised neoliberal urbanism. The volume draws inspiration from Lefebvre's key texts (The Production of Space; Critique of Everyday Life; and The Urban Revolution) and includes a comprehensive introduction and concluding chapter by the editors. The conclusions highlight implications in relation to increasing spatial inequalities; increasing diversity of needs including those of migrants; more authoritarian approaches; and asymmetries of access to urban space. Above all, the book illustrates the continuing relevance of Levebvre's ideas for contemporary urban issues and shows – via global case studies – how resistance to spatial domination by powerful interests might be achieved. The Handbook helps the reader navigate the complex terrain of spatial research inspired by Lefebvre. In particular the Handbook focuses on: the series of struggles globally for the 'right to the city' and the collision of debates around the urban age, 'cityism' and planetary urbanisation. It will be a guide for graduate and advanced undergraduate teaching, and a key reference for academics in the fields of Human Geography, Sociology, Political Science, Applied Philosophy, Planning, Urban Theory and Urban Studies. Practitioners and activists in the field will also find the book of relevance.