David Bell, Pleasure Zones Jon Binnie, Pleasure Zones Ruth Holliday, "Pleasure Zones: Bodies, Cities, Spaces (Space, Place, and Society"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0815628978, 0815628986 | PDF | pages: 167 | 2.9 mb
The essays collected in this volume apply queer theory in a consideration of the human body as a vehicle for understanding relationships between people and place. The book examines the body as an entity constructed by gender, sexuality, race, class, nationality and disability.

Smart Growth and Sustainable Transport in Cities By Amir Shakibamanesh, Mahshid Ghorbanian, Seyed Navid Mashhadi Moghadam
2019 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0367262231 | PDF | 11 MB
This book delves into the urban planning theory of "smart growth" to encourage the creation of smart cities, where compact urban spaces are optimized to create transit-oriented, pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly areas, with a clear focus on developing a sustainable, humanistic transport system. Over the last century, increased demographic changes and use of motor vehicles in the wake of "urbanization" led to the rapid expansion of cities, giving rise to economic, social and environmental problems. Sprawls and extension into natural areas caused a scattered urban context replete with empty spaces. This book provides an effective solution to this with an overview of the historical application of smart growth principles as a response to the issue of sprawling cityscapes, and sheds light on the theoretical information and methodologies used by cities to re-develop the urban landscape. It also encloses a checklist for practitioners and decision makers to inform the developmental process and integrate smart growth strategies into land use planning. This book effectively engages with the global problem of urban sprawl in cities and hence will be an asset to both urban planning professionals, and graduate and postgraduate students of urban studies and the related disciplines.

Federico Savini, "Post-Growth Planning: Cities Beyond the Market Economy"
English | ISBN: 0367751003 | 2022 | 234 pages | PDF | 23 MB
This book draws on a wide range of conceptual and empirical materials to identify and examine planning and policy approaches that move beyond the imperative of perpetual economic growth. It sketches out a path towards planning theories and practices that can break the cyclical process of urban expansion, crises, and recovery that negatively affect ecosystems and human lives.

Juval Portugali, "Handbook on Cities and Complexity "
English | ISBN: 1789900115 | 2021 | 456 pages | PDF | 30 MB
Written by some of the founders of complexity theory and complexity theories of cities (CTC), this Handbook expertly guides the reader through over forty years of intertwined developments: the emergence of general theories of complex self-organized systems and the consequent emergence of CTC.

Robert C. Crouse, "Two Kingdoms & Two Cities: Mapping Theological Traditions of Church, Culture, and Civil Order"
English | 2017 | pages: 274 | ISBN: 1506421563 | PDF | 1,7 mb
The recent emergence of "two kingdoms" and "two cities" approaches to Christian social thinking are shown to have a key-and often unacknowledged-connection to Luther's reshaping of the Augustinian paradigm. The project works for a better understanding of Luther's own thought to help understand the convergences and divergences of Christian political theology in the twentieth century and today.

Mary R. Bachvarova, "The Fall of Cities in the Mediterranean: Commemoration in Literature, Folk-Song, and Liturgy"
English | ISBN: 1107031966 | 2016 | 291 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A body of theory has developed about the role and function of memory in creating and maintaining cultural identity. Yet there has been no consideration of the rich Mediterranean and Near Eastern traditions of laments for fallen cities in commemorating or resolving communal trauma. This volume offers new insights into the trope of the fallen city in folk-song and a variety of literary genres. These commemorations reveal memories modified by diverse agendas, and contains narrative structures and motifs that show the meaning of memory-making about fallen cities. Opening a new avenue of research into the Mediterranean genre of city lament, this book examines references to, or re-workings of, otherwise lost texts or ways of commemorating fallen cities in the extant texts, and with greater emphasis than usual on the point of view of the victors.

William Fulton, "Place and Prosperity: How Cities Help Us to Connect and Innovate"
English | ISBN: 1642832502 | 2022 | 216 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
There are few more powerful questions than, "Where are you from" or "Where do you live?" People feel intensely connected to cities as places and to other people who feel that same connection. In order to understand place - and understand human settlements generally - it is important to understand that places are not created by accident. They are created in order to further a political or economic agenda. Better cities emerge when the people who shape them think more broadly and consciously about the places they are creating. In

No Maps for These Territories: Cities, Spaces, and Archaeologies of the Future in William Gibson By Karin Hoepker
2011 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 9042033533 | PDF | 2 MB
No Maps for These Territories offers an archaeology of seemingly tried and trusted concepts: cartography, architecture, urban space. While rethinking Michel Foucault's theories, Karin Hoepker reconstructs the cartographic dispositives of spatial order. The futuristic fictional cityscapes of science fiction writer William Gibson are the touchstone for this epistemological analysis and typology of spatial formations. In seven probing chapters that focus on architectural blueprints, forms of inhabitation, Wunderkammern, and economic formations of retail, consumption, and entertainment such as shopping malls, amusement parks, and gambling meccas, Hoepker investigates a set of exemplary phenomena crucial to the fields of architecture, geography, philosophy, cartography, history of science, literary studies, and the arts. No Maps for These Territories thus offers close readings of fictional, philosophical, and theoretical texts, and examines instructive examples of the workings of spatial production. In a form of contrastive writing, the monograph sheds critical light on theoretical and fictional texts equally.

Mulatu Wubneh, "Planning for Cities in Crisis: Lessons from Gondar, Ethiopia "
English | ISBN: 3031184157 | 2022 | 334 pages | PDF | 14 MB
This book analyzes ancient cities that are facing crisis, and their coping mechanism to maintain resiliency and sustainability to remain economically viable and historically relevant. The book takes a fresh look at the underlying causes of the crises and recommends good governance and strategic planning options that the city could use to develop a robust economy using surveys and other materials, including geez (old Ethiopian language) church sources. This book illustrates the usage of the concepts of resilience and sustainability to critically assess the historical and cultural transformation of cities and the role of local government in maintaining a sustainable community.

Nature's Crossroads
by Vrtis, George;Wells, Chris;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0822947382 | 410 pages | True PDF | 7.45 MB