Yale University Press, 2016. — 106 p. — (The Future Series). — ISBN10: 0300204809. — ISBN13: 978-0300204803. An internationally renowned architect, urban planner, and scholar describes the major technological forces driving the future of cities Since cities emerged ten thousand years ago, they have become one of the most impressive artifacts of humanity. But their evolution has...
London: Penguin, 2016. — 624 p. — ISBN10: 014197589X; ISBN13: 978-0141975894. During the course of the twentieth century, communism took power in Eastern Europe and remade the city in its own image. Ransacking the urban planning of the grand imperial past, it set out to transform everyday life, its sweeping boulevards, epic high-rise and vast housing estates an emphatic...
Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 624 p. — ISBN10: 1119045061; ISBN13: 978-1119045069. 4th edition Featuring updates and revisions to reflect rapid changes in an increasingly globalized world, Readings in Planning Theory remains the definitive resource for the latest theoretical and practical debates within the field of planning theory. Represents the newest edition of the...
Пер. Д. Шалагинова. — Москва: Ад Маргинем Пресс, 2024. — 192 с. — ISBN 978-5-91103-761-1. Книга нью-йоркского философа Дэвида Кишика, автора переведенного на русский язык опыта в фикшн-философии Манхэттенский проект. Теория города, организована как тетрадь с заметками, фиксирующими некоторые этапы длинного пути одиночества по истории мысли, который привел к сегодняшнему...
City Point Press, 2019. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-1-947951-14-9. The Fall of a Great American City is the story of what is happening today in New York City and in many other cities across America. It is about how the crisis of affluence is now driving out everything we love most about cities: small shops, decent restaurants, public space, street life, affordable apartments,...
Le Moniteur, 2023. — 392 p. Cet ouvrage, richement illustré, replace les théories de l’urbanisme dans le contexte culturel, social, économique et politique de leur émergence. Il les met en perspective pour comprendre ce qui les unit ou les oppose. Les trois premières parties du livre montrent comment la diversité des expériences d’urbanisme, qu’ont connues les villes depuis le...
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2014. — 767 p. — ISBN 978-1-4094-6220-0 The cacophonous mix of sound that surrounds us in an urban environment is usually not disturbing because what we hear is an integral and accepted part of the urban dweller’s life. Yet it is the visual element of the city that dominates the standard urban vocabulary of experience. Sound has long been neglected in...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. — 560 p. — ISBN: 978-0-374254-08-7. The story of the postwar American city as refracted through the life and career of the urban planner Edward J. Logue. In twenty-first-century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic inequality, and unaffordable...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 160 p. — ISBN 0197599249, 978-0197599242. We live in the suburban era. Well over half of all Americans and two-thirds of Canadians live in suburbs. Tracts of suburban bungalows ring Sydney and Melbourne. Suburban apartments rise on the outskirts of Paris, Prague, Singapore, and Beijing. Nearly everyone has a strong opinion about suburbs. Folks...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 379 p. — ISBN 9781118383988, 1118383982. Historic Urban Landscape is a new approach to urban heritage management, promoted by UNESCO, and currently one of the most debated issues in the international preservation community. However, few conservation practitioners have a clear understanding of what it entails, and more importantly, what it can achieve....
Island Press, 2018. — 547 p. — ISBN 978-1-61091-939-5. The bicycle enjoyed a starring role in urban history over a century ago, but now it is back, stronger than ever. It is the single most important tool for improving our cities. Designing around it is the most efficient way to make our cities life-sized—to scale cities for humans. It is time to cement the bicycle firmly in...
Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. — 297 p. — ISBN 9781538126714. As more and more people inhabit the Earth and live longer on it, Super Cities will explode with populations of 20, 30, even 100 millions or more. But how will these cities accommodate such masses? Who will build them and where? How can they be sustained and their inhabitants provided for? Here, Jeff Dondero imagines the...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 642 p. — ISBN 978-1-118-45647-7. Peter Hall’s seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Now comprehensively revised, the fourth edition offers a perceptive, critical, and global history of urban...
Harper Wave, 2016. — 480 p. — ISBN 9780062234742, 0062234749. In the vein of Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser’s Triumph of the City , Jonathan F. P. Rose — visionary in urban development and renewal — champions the role of cities in addressing the environmental, economic, and social challenges of the twenty-first century. Cities are...
М.: Издательство Института Гайдара, 2013. — 336 с. — ISBN: 978-5-93255-373-2. Переносы столиц представляют собой крупнейшие мегаинженерные проекты в истории человечества, которые также оказывают глубокое влияние на политическую жизнь государств. Хотя различные проекты переноса столицы рассматриваются сегодня более чем в 30 странах, этот феномен остается недостаточно хорошо и...
Пер. с англ. Г. Йоханссон, Н. Данилова, Е. Чернецова, В. Дегтярев — М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2024. — 328 с. — (Studia Urbanica). — ISBN 9785444824900. Почему при встрече в городе с незнакомым человеком мы опускаем взгляд? Этим вопросом задается Ричард Сеннет в своем исследовании истории городского планирования. Анализируя разнообразные урбанистические объекты (от...
Allen Lane, 2018. — 336 p. — ISBN 978-0141978116, 0141978112 Life in Europe was fundamentally changed in the 16th century by the astonishing discoveries of the New World and of direct sea routes to Asia. To start with England was hardly involved and London remained a gloomy, introverted medieval city. But as the century progressed something extraordinary happened. Stephen...
Process, 2019. — 360 р. — (Process Self-reliance Series). The expanded, updated version of the best-selling classic, with a dozen new projects. This celebrated, essential handbook shows how to grow and preserve your own food, clean your house without toxins, raise chickens, gain energy independence, and more. Step-by-step projects, tips, and anecdotes will help get you started...
Faber & Faber, 2024. — 314 p. In his book The City of Today is a Dying Thing - In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow Des Fitzgerald takes us on an urgent, unforgettable journey into the future of urban life, from shimmering edifices in the Arizona desert to forest-bathing in deepest Wales, and from rats in mazes to neuroscientific studies of the effects of our surroundings. Along...
Penguin Press, 2011. — 352 p. — ISBN 9781594202773, 159420277X. «This enthusiastic guide to the blessings of human proximity explains why half of humanity now lives in cities and why 5m more are moving there from the countryside every month.» -- The Economist Best Books of the Year A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity's...
Yale University Press, 2011. — 304 p. — ISBN 9780300168174. Why Architecture Matters is not a work of architectural history or a guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. The purpose of Why Architecture Matters is to “come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us...
Routledge, 2010. — 520 p. At a time of potentially radical changes in the ways in which humans interact with their environments - through financial, environmental and/or social crises - the raison d'atre of spatial planning faces significant conceptual and empirical challenges. This Companion presents a multidimensional collection of critical narratives of conceptual challenges...
Walker Books, 2011 — 400 p. — ISBN: 9780802779724,9780802716323,2008000179 Like a phoenix from the ashes of the Great Fire of 1666, London was reborn to become the greatest metropolis of the age. « London Rising » tells the story of five extraordinary men and the city they transformed. By the middle of the seventeenth century, London was on the verge of collapse. Its ancient...
New York: Vintage Books, 1961. — 474 p. — ISBN 067974195X, 9780679741954 A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that...
Reissue — Dover Publications, 1987. — 352 p. with 215 ill. — ISBN 9780486253329, 0486253325. In this 1929 classic, the great architect Le Corbusier turned from the design of houses to the planning of cities, surveying urban problems and venturing bold new solutions. The book shocked and thrilled a world already deep in the throes of the modern age. Today it is revered as a work...
Springer, 2019. — 221 p. — ISBN: 978-3030116736. This open access book discusses booming housing markets in cities around the globe, and the resulting challenges for policymakers and central banks. Cities are booming everywhere, leading to a growing demand for urban housing. In many cities this demand is out-pacing supply, which causes house prices to soar and increases the...
Springer, 2021. — 889 p. — (Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering). — ISBN 978-3-030-76694-8. The edited volume explores the topic of experiential walks, which is the practice of multi- or mono-sensory and in-motion immersion into an urban or natural environment. The act of walking is hence intended as a process of (re-)discovering, reflecting and learning through an embodied...
2d ed. — Museum of Modern Art, 2002. — 136 p. — ISBN 9780810960237, 0810960230 First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A «gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture», Venturi's « Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture » expresses in the most compelling...
Reaktion Books, 2019. — 272 p. — ISBN 9781789141047, 1789141044. Though reaching ever further toward the skies, today’s cities are overshadowed by multiple threats: climate change, overpopulation, social division, and urban warfare all endanger our metropolitan way of life. The fundamental tool we use to make sense of these uncertain city futures is the imagination. Architects,...
Dundurn Press, 2015. — 239 p. City planning in the GTHA has been mired in political grandstanding for the past decade, The New Urban Agenda offers a plain language solution to the issues plaguing the GTHA. Politics in the Greater Toronto, Hamilton Area (GTHA) have become increasingly divisive over the past decade, and solutions to the city’s problems have become hot-topic...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018. — 310 p. — ISBN 9781724391384, 1724391380. Imagine a system in which a private company offers you protection of life, liberty and property as a "government service provider". This service includes internal and external security, a legal and regulatory framework and independent dispute resolution. You pay a contractually fixed...
Taylor & Francis, 1999 — 230 p. — ISBN 978-0419221104, 0419221107 This book looks at current urban problems in cities and demonstrates how effective urban design can address social, economic and environmental issues as well as the physical planning at local level. The book is highly visual and illustrates the topic with a variety of sketches, line drawings, axonometrics, and...
Bloomsbury Press, 2013 — 407 p. — ISBN 9781620402061, 1620402068 Cities are where the twenty-first century is really going to happen. Already at the beginning of the century, we became 50% urban as a global population, and by 2050 we're going to be up to 70% urban. So cities could either be our coffin or our ark. Leo Hollis presents evidence that cities can deliver a better...
Creative Cities Productions, 2011 — 242 p. — ISBN 9780615430430, 0615430430 The mutual love affair between people and their place is one of the most powerful influences in our lives, yet rarely thought of in terms of a relationship. As cities begin thinking of themselves as engaged in a relationship with their citizens, and citizens begin to consider their emotional connections...
Open Road Media, 2016. — 640 p. — ISBN 9781504031349. A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker. Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The Culture of Cities is a call...
Revised and updated edition. — Dorling Kindersley, 2013. — 48 p. — ISBN 9781465413468, 1465413464. Illustrated by Steve Noon Revised and updated for a new generation! In the bestselling «A City Through Time», readers are invited to follow the progress of an imaginary city through six key periods of time, each captured by a scene of the city and zooming in on key buildings like...
Scribner, 2014 — 256 p. — ISBN 9781416561293, 1416561293 In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home, A Clearing in the Distance, and Now I Sit Me Down. In Makeshift Metropolis, Rybczynski has drawn...
Intellect Ltd, 2016 — 280 p. — (Mediated Cities) — ISBN 9781783205608, 1783205601 In the contemporary city, the physical infrastructure and sensorial experiences of two millennia are now interwoven within an invisible digital matrix. This matrix alters human perceptions of the city, informs our behavior, and increasingly influences the urban designs we ultimately inhabit....
Verso Books, 2018. — 700 p. — ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-515-0 The moving finger writes: Trump. How bad can it be? This surely ain’t Berlin, 1933. The downtown lifestyle bubble shows no sign of bursting, and the stock market is soaring. We’re slack-jawed at the buffoonery, but, having spent more than half a century undergoing saturation by television, the affair is easily assimilated...
Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2024. — 456 с. — (Studia Urbanica). — ISBN 978-5-4448-2511-2. Города являются одним из ключевых ориентиров для современного исторического сознания: их возникновение, развитие и упадок используются, чтобы определить вектор развития человеческой цивилизации. Эта книга посвящена историчности городов - динамичному пересечению различных...
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