Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Southeast Corridor, Houston
Author: University Corridor Fixed Guideway in Houston, Harris County
Author: Reviving America's Forgotten Neighborhoods
Author: Elise M. BrightPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415945271
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Great Streets
Author: Allan B. JacobsPublisher: Mit Press
ISBN: 9780262600231
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Which are the world's best streets, and what are the physical, designable characteristics that make them great? To answer these questions, Allan Jacobs has surveyed street users and design professionals and has studied a wide array of street types and urban spaces around the world. With more than 200 illustrations, all prepared by the author, along with analysis and statistics, Great Streets offers a wealth of information on street dimensions, plans, sections, and patterns of use, all systematically compared. It also reveals Jacobs's eye for the telling human and social details that bring streets and communities to life.An extensive introduction discusses the importance of streets in creating communities and criteria for identifying the best streets. The essays that follow examine 15 particularly fine streets, ranging from medieval streets in Rome and Copenhagen to Venice's Grand Canal, from Parisian boulevards to tree-lined residential streets in American cities. Jacobs also looks at several streets that were once very fine but are less successful today, such as Market Street in San Francisco, identifying the factors that figure in their decline.To broaden his coverage, Jacobs adds briefer treatments of more than 30 other streets arranged by street type, including streets from Australia, Japan, and classical antiquity in addition to European and North American examples. For each of these streets he has prepared plans, sections, and maps, all drawn at the same scales to facilitate comparisons, along with perspective views and drawings of significant design details.Another remarkable feature of this book is a set of 50 one square-mile maps, each reproduced at the same scale, of the street plans of representative cities around the world. These reveal much about the texture of the cities' street patterns and hence of their urban life. Jacobs's analysis of the maps adds much original data derived from them, including changes of street patterns over time.Jacobs concludes by summarizing the practical design qualities and strategies that have contributed most to the making of great streets.
General Neighborhood Renewal Plan
Author: Candeub and Fleissig (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
SynergiCity
Author: Paul Hardin KappPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252036816
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Cover -- title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- back cover.
Community Resilience
Author: Alonzo L. PloughPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197559409
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
In this fifth volume of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Culture of Health series, Community Resilience: Equitable Practices for an Uncertain Future highlights the importance of resilience, or the set of assets that allow a person or place to recover when adversity hits, by illustrating the policies and stories of lived experience surrounding health equity. Whether that adversity is acute--such as an environmental disaster or an abuse of police power--or chronic--such as that engendered by poverty and racism--local innovation and community engagement are key to nurturing resilience and promoting health equity. Community Resilience positions storytelling and narrative shifts as essential to influencing our perceptions of who deserves empathy or support, and who does not, by examining the systemic barriers to resilience and the opportunities to reshape the landscape to overcome those barriers. The central message of this volume--across immigration or imprisonment, opioids or trauma, housing or disaster preparedness--is that we must act intentionally and allow a shift in power in order to make progress.
Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume One
Author: Roy LubovePublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 9780822971641
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
First published in 1969, Roy Lubove's Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh is a pioneering analysis of elite driven, post-World War II urban renewal in a city once disdained as "hell with the lid off." The book continues to be invaluable to anyone interested in the fate of America's beleaguered metropolitan and industrial centers.
Master Plan Report to the Planning Commission of the City of Passaic
Author: Passaic-Bergen Community Planning AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
The Danger Zone Is Everywhere
Author: George LipsitzPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520404408
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Compellingly argues that good health is as much social as it is biological, and that the racial health gap and the racial wealth gap are mutually constitutive. The Danger Zone Is Everywhere shows that housing insecurity and the poor health associated with it are central components of an unjust, destructive, and deadly racial order. Housing discrimination is a civil and economic injustice, but it is also a menace to public health. With this book, George Lipsitz reveals how the injuries of housing discrimination are augmented by racial bias in home appraisals and tax assessments, by the disparate racialized effects of policing, sentencing, and parole, and by the ways in which algorithms in insurance and other spheres associate race with risk. But The Danger Zone Is Everywhere also highlights new practices emerging in health care and the law, emphasizing how grassroots community mobilizations are creating an active and engaged public sphere constituency promoting new forms of legislation, litigation, and organization for social justice.