Sustaining Cities - Urban Policies, Practices, and Perceptions

Informationen zum Autor LINDA KRAUSE is an associate dean and associate professor in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is a coeditor of Global Cities: Cinema, Architecture, and Urbanism in a Digital Age (Rutgers University Press). Klappentext Explores what has happened to a selection of US metropolitan and smaller centres in the wake of the global economic recession. The nine essays look at such diverse topics as globalization and agriculture! public policies in modern cities! and corporate support in urban areas. Contributors examine how urban planners! architects! novelists! and filmmakers tap the unique and complex character of cities in response to economic! environmental! social! and political changes. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroductionP A R T ISustainable CityHostage CitiesReframing Housing ValueP A R T I INotes toward a History of Agrarian UrbanismThe Art of Place-makingBeyond BoundariesP A R T I I IChinese CitiesFrom “The Dead” to the DeadImagining and Reimagining a Promised LandNotes on ContributorsIndex

Product details

• Authors: Linda (EDT)/ Iracheta Krause
• Assisted by: Linda Krause (Editor)
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.12.2012
• EAN: 9780813554150
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-5415-0
• Series: New Directions in Internationa; New Directions in Internationa
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education