Ways of Knowing Cities By Laura Kurgan (editor), Dare Brawley (editor)
2019 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1941332587 | PDF | 63 MB
Technology mediates how we know and experience cities, and the nature of this mediation has always been deeply political. Today, the production and deployment of data is at the forefront of projects to grasp and reshape urban life. Ways of Knowing Cities considers the role of technology in generating, materializing, and contesting urban epistemologies―tracing an arc from ubiquitous sites of "smart" urbanism, to discrete struggles over infrastructural governance, to forgotten histories of segregation now naturalized in urban algorithms, to exceptional territories of border policing. Bringing together architects, urbanists, artists, and scholars of critical migration studies, media theory, geography, anthropology, and literature, the essays stage a deeply interdisciplinary conversation, interrogating the ways in which certain ways of knowing are predicated on the erasure of others. In this opening, the book engages the information systems that structure urban space and social life in it, historically and in the present moment, to imagine alternative practices and generate new critical perspectives on spatial research.Ways of Knowing Cities includes texts by Eve Blau, Simone Browne, Maribel Casas-Cortes, Wendy Chun, Sebastian Cobarrubias, Beth Coleman, V. Mitch McEwen, Orit Halpern, Charles Heller, Shannon Mattern, Leah Meisterlin, Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Dietmar Offenhuber, Lorenzo Pezzani, Anita Say Chan, and Matthew W. Wilson.

Leading Cities: A Global Review of City Leadership By Elizabeth Rapoport; Michele Acuto; Leonora Grcheva
2020 | 140 Pages | ISBN: 1787355470 | PDF | 11 MB
Leading Cities is a global review of the state of city leadership and urban governance today. Drawing on research into more than two hundred cities in one hundred countries, the book provides broad, international evidence grounded in the experiences of all types of cities. It offers a scholarly, but also a practical, assessment of how cities are led, what challenges their leaders face, and the ways in which this leadership is increasingly connected to global affairs.Arguing that effective leadership is not just something created by an individual, Elizabeth Rapoport, Michele Acuto, and Leonora Grcheva focus on three elements of city leadership: leaders, the structures and institutions that underpin them, and the tools used to drive change. Each of these elements is examined in turn, as are the major urban policy issues that leaders confront today. The book also takes a deep dive into one particular example of a tool or instrument of city leadership: the strategic urban plan.

Katherine Maxwell, "Governance Networks for Sustainable Cities "
English | ISBN: 1032073608 | 2022 | 170 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This book explores the effectiveness of governance networks on the design and implementation of sustainability strategies.

Jan Fellerer, "Lviv - Wrocław, Cities in Parallel?: Myth, Memory and Migration, c. 1890-Present"
English | ISBN: 9633863236 | 2020 | 364 pages | PDF | 5 MB
After World War II, Europe witnessed the massive redrawing of national borders and the efforts to make the population fit those new borders. As a consequence of these forced changes, both Lviv and Wrocław went through cataclysmic changes in population and culture. Assertively Polish prewar Lwów became Soviet Lvov, and then, after 1991, it became assertively Ukrainian Lviv. Breslau, the third largest city in Germany before 1945, was in turn "recovered" by communist Poland as Wrocław. Practically the entire population of Breslau was replaced, and Lwów's demography too was dramatically restructured: many Polish inhabitants migrated to Wrocław and most Jews perished or went into exile. The forced migration of these groups incorporated new myths and the construction of official memory projects.

Curiocities: Where Complex Cities Meet Curious Minds
by Chua Chong Jin and Jason Pomeroy
English | 2023 | ISBN: 981126502X | 207 pages | True PDF EPUB | 34.33 MB

Judy Bentley, "Walking Washington's History: Ten Cities "
English | ISBN: 0295996684 | 2016 | 304 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Walking Washington's History: Ten Cities, a follow-up to Judy Bentley's bestselling Hiking Washington's History, showcases the state's engaging urban history through guided walks in ten major cities. Using narrated walks, maps, and historic photographs, Bentley reveals each city's aspirations.

Lonely Planet, "The Cities Book: A Journey Through the Best Cities in the World"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1786577585 | EPUB | pages: 424 | 142.1 mb
Lonely Planet's bestselling The Cities Book is back. Fully revised and updated, it's a celebration of 200 of the world's most exciting urban destinations, beautifully photographed and packed with trip advice and recommendations from our experts - making it the perfect companion for any traveller deciding where to visit next.

Stephen M. Wheeler, "Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities"
English | ISBN: 0520381211 | 2021 | 344 pages | EPUB | 15 MB
A cutting-edge, solutions-oriented analysis of how we can reimagine cities around the world to build sustainable futures.

Fixing Broken Cities: New Investment Policies for a Changed World 2nd Edition
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032404531 | 338 Pages | PDF (True) | 11 MB
Fixing Broken Cities explores the planning, execution, and impact of urban repopulation and investment strategies that were launched in the wake of two crises: late twentieth-century economic disinvestment and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fabrizio Nevola, "Hidden Cities: Urban Space, Geolocated Apps and Public History in Early Modern Europe "
English | ISBN: 0367775913 | 2022 | 258 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
This groundbreaking collection explores the convergence of the spatial and digital turns through a suite of smartphone apps (Hidden Cities) that present research-led itineraries in early modern cities as public history.