The Help-Yourself City

The Help-Yourself City
Author: Gordon C.C. Douglas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2018-01-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0190691360

When local governments neglect public services or community priorities, how do concerned citizens respond? In The Help-Yourself City, Gordon Douglas looks closely at people who take urban planning into their own hands with homemade signs and benches, guerrilla bike lanes and more. Douglas explores the frustration, creativity, and technical expertise behind these interventions, but also the position of privilege from which they often come. Presenting a needed analysis of this growing trend from vacant lots to city planning offices, The Help-Yourself City tells a street-level story of people's relationships to their urban surroundings and the individualization of democratic responsibility.

The Help-yourself City

The Help-yourself City
Author: Gordon C. C. Douglas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2018
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0190691336

When local governments neglect public services or community priorities, how do concerned citizens respond? In The Help-Yourself City, Gordon Douglas looks closely at people who take urban planning into their own hands with homemade signs and benches, guerrilla bike lanes and more. Douglas explores the frustration, creativity, and technical expertise behind these interventions, but also the position of privilege from which they often come. Presenting a needed analysis of this growing trend from vacant lots to city planning offices, The Help-Yourself City tells a street-level story of people's relationships to their urban surroundings and the individualization of democratic responsibility.

Philosophy and the City

Philosophy and the City
Author: Keith Jacobs
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2019-03-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1786604612

Philosophy has its origins in the city, and in the context of our own highly urbanised modes of living, the relationship between philosophy and the city is more important than ever. The city is the place in which most humans now play out their lives, and the place that determines much of the cultural, social, economic, and political life of the contemporary world. Towards a Philosophy of the City explores a wide range of approaches and perspectives in a way that is true to the city’s complex and dynamic character. The volume begins with a comprehensive introduction that identifies the key themes and then moves through four parts, examining the concept of the city itself, its varying histories and experiences, the character of the landscapes that belong to the city, and finally the impact of new technologies for the future of city spaces. Each section takes up aspects of the thinking of the city as it develops in relation to particular problems, contexts, and sometimes as exemplified in particular cities. This volume provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars in Philosophy, Geography, Sociology and Urban Studies.

System

System
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 814
Release: 1909
Genre: Business
ISBN:

The Tradesman

The Tradesman
Author: John E. MacGowan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1062
Release: 1911
Genre: Industries
ISBN: