Welcome to our book review site www.go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Unsettled Urban Space
While urban life can be characterized by endeavors to settle stable and safe environments, for many people, urban space is rarely stable or safe; it is uncertain, troubled, imbued with challenges and perpetually under pressure. As the concept of unsettled appears to define the contemporary urban experience, this multidisciplinary book investigates the conflicts and possibilities of settling and unsettling through open and speculative analysis. The analytical prism of unsettled renders urban space an indeterminate ground unfolding through routines, temporalities and contestations in constant tension between settling and unsettling. Such contrasting experiences are contingent on how urban soci...
New Urbanism
Examines innovative urban redevelopment projects around Europe and North America which are at the forefront of this new urbanism and which are here termed New Downtowns. This title addresses major questions such as: What does a sustained urbanity for the 21st century look like? And, more
A History of Collective Living
The book tells the story of communal living from about 1850 until today. Three motives of sharing - the economic, political and social intention - divide the residential objects, which are investigated in a historical analysis and allocated to nine development phases. The author investigates and compares different forms of housing and the way they developed from their origins until today; she illustrates how everyday shared living and the degrees of privacy in housing are practiced in Europe. Owing to its comprehensive documentation, the analysis of typologies, layout plans, and user and expert interviews, the book can also be considered to be a lexicon or handbook on communal living. A detailed overview that is unique in this form.
Spaces of the Poor
What do we know about the urban impoverished areas of the world and the living environment of its inhabitants? How did the urban poor cope with their surroundings? How did they interpret and adopt urban space in order to fight against their position at the periphery of society? This volume takes up these questions and investigates how far approaches of cultural sciences can contribute to overcome the »exoticization of the ghetto« (Loïc Wacquant) and instead to look at the heterogeneity and individuality behind the facades. It opens new perspectives for the research of poverty and inequalities that do not stop at collective categories.
Wohnen in Hamburg
In wohnungspolitischen Debatten dient Hamburg vielfach als bundesweites Vorbild. Dennoch ist auch hier die Lage durch kontinuierlich steigende Mieten und Preise für breite Teile der Bevölkerung prekär. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes behandeln die Situation der Wohnungsversorgung in der Hansestadt und geben einen kritischen Überblick über zentrale Akteure, Instrumente und Konfliktfelder. Aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive zeigen sie historische Entwicklungspfade sowie aktuelle Lösungsansätze auf und analysieren relevante Kontroversen. So entsteht ein informativer Überblick über die Forschung zur Hamburger Wohnungspolitik, der auch für Praktiker*innen aus Stadtplanung und Politik neue Erkenntnisse bereithält.
Die Wirklichkeit der Städte
Die Stadt ist ein Begriff, der eine ganze Welt im Schlepptau halt, eine semantische Verdichtung, mittels derer sich nicht nur Wahrnehmungen, Bilder und Erfahrungen, sondern auch kulturelle Wissensbestande produzieren und organisieren lassen. Obwohl Stadte seit 10.000 Jahren physisch prasent sind, ist der Streit um den "ontologischen" Status der Stadt langst nicht entschieden, die Frage nach einem vorgangigen Gegenstand "Stadt" heute umstrittener denn je. Dabei lasst sich kaum ein Problem identifizieren, dass nicht an und in den Stadten imaginiert worden ware. In den Stadten verweilt das Gedachtnis der Menschheit. Stadte sind Weltanschauungen, Lebensformen, Philosophien, Raume des Begehrens, Arenen der Macht und ihres Verfalls.
Negotiating Urban Conflicts
Cities have always been arenas of social and symbolic conflict. As places of encounter between different classes, ethnic groups, and lifestyles, cities play the role of powerful integrators; yet on the other hand urban contexts are the ideal setting for marginalization and violence. The struggle over control of urban spaces is an ambivalent mode of sociation: while producing themselves, groups produce exclusive spaces and then, in turn, use the boundaries they have created to define themselves. This volume presents major urban conflicts and analyzes modes of negotiation against the theoretical background of postcolonialism.
The Endless City
The Urban Age Project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society.
