Free Download Scenes and Communities in the City by Marta Klekotko
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 158 Pages | ISBN : 3031434633 | 5.7 MB
​This book addresses the problem of creation and reproduction processes of contemporary urban communities, as well as cultural mechanisms and factors of these processes. Rejecting both the environmental determinism, and cultural reductionism of community studies, the book assumes that the postmodern city is a space of diverse urban communities that go far beyond the traditional concept of neighbourhood as well as personal and imagined communities, and thus proposes to comprehend urban community as social practice embedded in urban space. The book applies the Theory of Social Practice and the Theory of Scenes and develops the concept of socio-cultural opportunity structures in order to explain how cultural practices of individuals and symbolic dimensions of territory interact, leading to (re)production of various forms of urban community. It is assumed that culture in general and symbolic meanings of territory in particular, play a crucial role in the process of (re)production of urban communities, that this process takes place in collective cultural consciousness and is mediated by territorially embedded cultural practices of individuals. The book overcomes theoretical gaps in classical community studies and develops a new perspective on urban communal processes based on the analysis of social practices in urban cultural scenes.

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English | ISBN: 1550655809 | 2022 | 300 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The rise to power of one of Canada's most progressive municipal movements in recent memory.

Free Download Miles Glendinning, "Clone City: Crisis and Renewal in Contemporary Scottish Architecture"
English | ISBN: 0748662553 | | 248 pages | PDF | 189 MB
Clone City brings architecture, for the first time, into the mainstream of debates about Scottish cultural identity. It analyses polemically the ways in which contemporary market-led globalisation has fragmented and debased the Scottish urban environment. It examines the pointers to possible solutions provided by history, and especially by the lessons of the 20th-century Modern Movement. Building on these examples, it sketches out ways in which a more socially organic and place-specific architecture can be reconciled with modernity's pressure of freedom and individuality and it shows how that process can actively help in the building of a Scottish identity under home rule.* Integrates architecture and the built environment into mainstreamScottish cultural identity debates; introduces architectural issues to the wider Scottish public* The first book to set out a critical, polemical position on Scottish architecture* Sets contemporary Scottish architecture and city planning issues in a comprehensive historical context* Examines the relevance of the ideas of Patrick Geddes to the contemporary Scottish city

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English | ISBN: 9356998248 | 2023 | 312 pages | EPUB | 526 KB
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Free Download The Routledge Handbook of the Byzantine City: From Justinian to Mehmet II (ca. 500 - ca.1500)
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0367196794 | 508 Pages | PDF (True) | 42 MB
The Byzantine world contained many important cities throughout its empire. Although it was not 'urban' in the sense of the word today, its cities played a far more fundamental role than those of its European neighbors. This book, through a collection of twenty-four chapters, discusses aspects of, and different approaches to, Byzantine urbanism from the early to late Byzantine periods. It provides both a chronological and thematic perspective to the study of Byzantine cities, bringing together literary, documentary, and archival sources with archaeological results, material culture, art, and architecture, resulting in a rich synthesis of the variety of regional and sub-regional transformations of Byzantine urban landscapes.

Free Download Christopher Tauchen, "Stalingrad: The City that Defeated the Third Reich"
English | 2016 | pages: 512 | ISBN: 1610397185, 1610394968 | EPUB | 33,7 mb
The turning point of World War II came at Stalingrad. Hitler's soldiers stormed the city in September 1942 in a bid to complete the conquest of Europe. Yet Stalingrad never fell. After months of bitter fighting, 100,000 surviving Germans, huddled in the ruined city, surrendered to Soviet troops.

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English | 2011 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 0679643818 | EPUB | 5,6 mb
A gripping, beautifully told story of a young man's coming-of-age at sea

Free Download Kate Chopin and the City: The New Orleans Stories
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031442997 | 253 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
This book examines selected short stories and novels by Kate Chopin through the lens of the city of New Orleans. Chopin's depictions of and references to New Orleans celebrate the vibrancy of this unique American city, but also illustrate the complex, interdependent relationships defined within its coded system of racial, gendered, and class designations. These stories feature canny depictions of the complexity of human struggles for freedom as well as love within this nineteenth-century southern city. While Chopin has been highly regarded as a local color writer and especially as a feminist literary icon, this book shows how the author's "city" stories also point to her sophistication as an author who perceived the shifting literary landscape, and it identifies the ways many of these stories' protomodernist elements anticipate the advent of the Modern era.

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English | 2002 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 1582342393 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
David Leavitt brings the wonders and mysteries of Florence alive, illuminating why it is, and always has been, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world.

Tokyo Stroll A Guide to City Sidetracks and Easy Explorations by Gilles Poitras | 61.59 MB
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Title: Tokyo Stroll
Author: Gilles Poitras
Year: 2023