Описание: Merchants' shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded streets of the European city. As they developed over many centuries, these spaces of commerce, communion, and commuting framed daily life. At its heyday in the 1800s, the European street was the place where social worlds connected and collided. Brian Ladd recounts a rich social and cultural history of the European city street, tracing its transformation from a lively scene of trade and crowds into a thoroughfare for high-speed transportation. Looking closely at four major cities--London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna--Ladd uncovers both the joys and the struggles of a past world. The story takes us up to the twentieth century, when the life of the street was transformed as wealthier citizens withdrew from the crowds to seek refuge in suburbs and automobiles. As demographics and technologies changed, so did the structure of cities and the design of streets, significantly shifting our relationships to them. In today's world of high-speed transportation and impersonal marketplaces, Ladd leads us to consider how we might draw on our history to once again build streets that encourage us to linger. By unearthing the vivid descriptions recorded by amused and outraged contemporaries, Ladd reveals the changing nature of city life, showing why streets matter and how they can contribute to public life.
Автор: Glaeser, Edward L. Название: Cities, Agglomeration, and Spatial Equilibrium ISBN: 019929044X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199290444 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 13089.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Drawing on his successful Lindahl lectures, Edward Glaeser provides a rigorous account of his research and unique thinking on cities. Written for an advanced audience with an interest in urban economics and cities, the book is written to be accessible to theorists and non-theorists alike and should provide a basis for further empirical work.
Описание: With almost one in ten post-industrial US cities shrinking in recent years, this book looks at the reasons for the failure (and success) of affordable housing experiences in these cities, stressing the importance of siting affordable housing in areas that ensure more equitable urban revitalisation.
Автор: Beauregard Robert A. Название: Cities in the Urban Age: A Dissent ISBN: 022653538X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226535388 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 4118.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A case for and against cities: they`re the best thing we have going (environmentally, socially, in terms of tolerance) but they`re also inherently destructive. How to reconcile both-Beauregard argues that we don`t need to; we should accept cities as inherently full of contradictions.
San Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, in recent decades the Bay Area has been reshaped by Silicon Valley, the engine of the new American economy. The richer the region gets, the more unequal and less diverse it becomes, and cracks in the city's facade--rapid gentrification, an epidemic of evictions, rising crime, atrophied public institutions--have started to show.
Inspired by Studs Terkel's classic works of oral history, writer and filmmaker Cary McClelland spent several years interviewing people at the epicenter of the recent change, from venture capitalists and coders to politicians and protesters, from native sons and daughters to the city's newest arrivals. The crisp and vivid stories of Silicon City's diverse cast capture San Francisco as never before.
The book opens with a longtime tour guide recounting the history of the original Gold Rush and observing how little the people of his city pay attention to its history; it ends on Fisherman's Wharf, with the proprietor of an arcade game museum reminding us that even today's technology will become relics of the past. In between we hear from people who have passed through Apple, Google, eBay, Intel, and the other big tech companies of our time. And we meet those who are experiencing the changes at the grassroots level: a homeless advocate in Haight-Ashbury, an Oakland rapper, a pawnbroker in the Mission, a man who helped dismantle and rebuild the Bay Bridge, and a woman who runs a tattoo parlor in the Castro.
Silicon City masterfully weaves together a candid conversation across a divided community to create a dynamic portrait of a beloved city--and a cautionary tale for the entire country.
Автор: Sassen, Saskia Название: Cities in a world economy ISBN: 1506362613 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781506362618 Издательство: Sage Publications Рейтинг: Цена: 10613.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Cities in a World Economy examines the emergence of global cities as a new social formation, as well as sites of rapid and widespread developments in the areas of finance, information and people.
Автор: Meltem Toksoz, Biray Kolluoglu Название: Cities of the Mediterranean: From the Ottomans to the Present Day ISBN: 1780767692 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780767697 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 6165.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Through its penetrating analysis of the various networks that connected the ports and towns of the Mediterranean and their inhabitants throughout the Ottoman period, Cities of the Mediterranean presents the region as a unified and dynamic community and paves the way for a new understanding of the subject.
Автор: Aurigi, Alessandro Название: Designing Smart For Better Cities ISBN: 0128186364 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780128186367 Издательство: Elsevier Science Рейтинг: Цена: 16505.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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With the increasing concerns over greenhouse gas emissions and climate changes, the world is moving towards the utilisation of renewable energy resources. Lignin, a by-product from pulp and paper industry and ethanol manufacturers, is a storehouse of high value chemicals. These are now produced from a non-renewable fossil resource called crude oil after several steps of refining and functionalization. If lignin is used to obtain the same chemicals, twin benefit from economic and environment perspective is obtained.
Lignin Biorefinery discusses scientific and technical information relating to the structure and physico-chemical characteristics of lignin. The lignin obtained in various 2G ethanol plants across the globe and also pulp & paper industries are quite different. Due to lack of understanding of structural information along with the technologies/processes to be adopted for production of high value chemicals, the material is being utilized for low value applications including energy. The book covers the different processes (biological, thermal and catalytic routes) that are available for lignin conversion into specialty chemicals or fuels will be delved upon in detail with references and links to the detailed along with literature available till date. The structure activity relationships and the optimised process parameters help in establishing the feasible size of the commercial plant in a centralised or decentralised model. In addition, the advantages and limitations of different technologies are also discussed by considering the local energy/chemicals/biopolymers/drug intermediates/activated carbons/speciality carbons etc., demand, government policies, environmental impacts, and education in bioenergy.
Автор: Amin Ash, Thrift Nigel J, Schilling-Estes Natalie, Название: Cities ISBN: 0745624146 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780745624143 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2533.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the city. Amin and Thrift maintain that the traditional divide between the city and the countryside has been perforated through urban encroachment, the thickening of the links between the two, and urbanization as a way of life.
Автор: Simon Curtis Название: Global Cities and Global Order ISBN: 0198744013 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198744016 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 17511.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume investigates the changing nature of cities in the international system, and their increasing prominence in global governance and global order.
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