Add to ORKGReviews of books by Anne Whiston Spirn, Jane Jacobs, George Gallup, Jr., Gary Gappert, and Richard V. Knight. What all of these books have in common is the futuristic glimpse they give us into urban life in the twenty-first century. In approaching such a milestone, one can be either an optimist or a pessimist. These authors present a balanced mixture; they bring tidings of good news and bad news. As one of them aptly puts it: In the present lies not only the nightmare of what the city will become if current trends continue, but also the dream of what the city could be. With this thought in mind, it behooves us to examine both the dream and the nightmare. It is the purpose of this essay to review these books for their substantive message a...
Cities at War: Global Insecurity and Urban Resistance edited by Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen. New Y...
Urban Maps concerns the city and the devices that define the urban environment by their presence, re...
Vishaan Chakrabarti has an axe—or two—to grind. Federal subsidies for oceanfront homes, green techno...
Contains book reviews of the following: Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser; Insurgent Public Spac...
This book examines how postwar thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic considered urban landscapes ...
Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this book seeks to illustrate how and why c...
Chris Gilson finds Witold Rybczynski‘s work to be an excellent and engaging exploration into how we ...
Review of Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change, and the Modern Metropolis, edited by Amy Bingaman...
Beneath the electric haze of the big city lights, another more organic energy illuminates the street...
Review of: The City as a Human Environment (Duane G. LeVine & Arthur C. Upton eds., Praeger Publishe...
The Inevitable City presents ten principles that ‘changed the game’ for New Orleans after Katrina, o...
For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community...
The authors review the book Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser, published in 2011
While acknowledging the difficulties cities face, Leading the Inclusive City mounts a powerful case ...
In the edited collection Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era: Revitalization Politics in the Postindust...
Cities at War: Global Insecurity and Urban Resistance edited by Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen. New Y...
Urban Maps concerns the city and the devices that define the urban environment by their presence, re...
Vishaan Chakrabarti has an axe—or two—to grind. Federal subsidies for oceanfront homes, green techno...
Contains book reviews of the following: Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser; Insurgent Public Spac...
This book examines how postwar thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic considered urban landscapes ...
Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this book seeks to illustrate how and why c...
Chris Gilson finds Witold Rybczynski‘s work to be an excellent and engaging exploration into how we ...
Review of Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change, and the Modern Metropolis, edited by Amy Bingaman...
Beneath the electric haze of the big city lights, another more organic energy illuminates the street...
Review of: The City as a Human Environment (Duane G. LeVine & Arthur C. Upton eds., Praeger Publishe...
The Inevitable City presents ten principles that ‘changed the game’ for New Orleans after Katrina, o...
For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community...
The authors review the book Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser, published in 2011
While acknowledging the difficulties cities face, Leading the Inclusive City mounts a powerful case ...
In the edited collection Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era: Revitalization Politics in the Postindust...
Cities at War: Global Insecurity and Urban Resistance edited by Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen. New Y...
Urban Maps concerns the city and the devices that define the urban environment by their presence, re...
Vishaan Chakrabarti has an axe—or two—to grind. Federal subsidies for oceanfront homes, green techno...