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Space–Time Design of the Public City
Time has become an increasingly important topic in urban studies and urban planning. The spatial-temporal interplay is not only of relevance for the theory of urban development and urban politics, but also for urban planning and governance. The space-time approach focuses on the human being with its various habits and routines in the city. Understanding and taking those habits into account in urban planning and public policies offers a new way to improve the quality of life in our cities. Adapting the supply and accessibility of public spaces and services to the inhabitants’ space-time needs calls for an integrated approach to the physical design of urban space and to the organization of cities. In the last two decades the body of practical and theoretical work on urban space-time topics has grown substantially. The book offers a state of the art overview of the theoretical reasoning, the development of new analytical tools, and practical experience of the space-time design of public cities in major European countries. The contributions were written by academics and practitioners from various fields exploring space-time research and planning.
Toward Sustainable Relations Between Agriculture and the City
This book gives an overview of frameworks, methods, and case studies useful for the analysis of the relations between agriculture and the city, in Europe and the Mediterranean. Its originality lies in the analysis of urban food systems sustainability from an actors’ perspective. All the chapters consider the key role of actors in the definition of innovations and pathways, which enhance sustainability, seen as an ongoing process. Part 1 presents systemic approaches of agricultural-urban interactions at the city-region scale in France, Egypt, Italy and Morocco. Part 2 deals with methods and tools for urban planning and local development, utilized to design and assess sustainable food systems. The Part 3 inventories the recent changes in urban agriculture and the new forms of governance which are emerging in European cities (Athens, Berlin, Lisbon, Montpellier, Paris and Zurich). These results are useful for students, academics and activists involved in local policies and projects.
Understanding Mobilities for Designing Contemporary Cities
This book explores mobilities as a key to understanding the practices that both frame and generate contemporary everyday life in the urban context. At the same time, it investigates the challenges arising from the interpretation of mobility as a socio-spatial phenomenon both in the social sciences and in urban studies. Leading sociologists, economists, urban planners and architects address the ways in which spatial mobilities contribute to producing diversified uses of the city and describe forms and rhythms of different life practices, including unexpected uses and conflicts. The individual sections of the book focus on the role of mobility in transforming contemporary cities; the consequen...
Struggling for Time
Struggling for Time examines how time is used as a mechanism of control by the Israeli state and a site of mundane resistance among Palestinian agriculture professionals. Natalia Gutkowski unpacks power structures to show how a settler society lays moral claim on indigenous time through agrarian environmental policies, science, technologies, landscapes, and bureaucracy. Shifting the analysis of Israel/Palestine from land and space to time, she offers new insight into the operation of power in agrarian environments and develops a contemporary framework to understand land and resource grabs under temporal justifications. Traveling across both policymaking arenas and Palestinian citizens' agrar...
Everyday Streets
Everyday streets are both the most used and most undervalued of cities’ public spaces. They are places of social aggregation, bringing together those belonging to different classes, genders, ages, ethnicities and nationalities. They comprise not just the familiar outdoor spaces that we use to move and interact but also urban blocks, interiors, depths and hinterlands, which are integral to their nature and contribute to their vitality. Everyday streets are physically and socially shaped by the lives of the people and things that inhabit them through a reciprocal dance with multiple overlapping temporalities. The primary focus of this book is an inclusive approach to understanding and design...
Stadtökonomie – Blickwinkel und Perspektiven | Perspectives on urban economics
„Economics is not about money“. Dieses Bonmot gilt auch für die Stadt- und Regionalökonomie, in deren Mittelpunkt die Beziehung zwischen Raum und Ökonomie steht und eben nicht (nur) zwischen Raum und Geld. Es geht um Abhängigkeiten zwischen räumlicher Entwicklung einerseits und Entscheidungen über den Umgang mit knappen Ressourcen aller Art andererseits. Dazu gehören Fragen zum Umgang mit Grund und Boden, zu räumlichen Ausprägungen des wirtschaftlichen Strukturwandels, zu Funktionsweisen von Teilmärkten (Wohnen, Gewerbe, Handel oder Freizeit), zur Immobilienwirtschaft oder auch zum zeitstrukturellen Wandel und dessen Wechselwirkungen mit dem Raum. Dieser Sammelband offeriert ei...
Willkommene Perspektiven – Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung durch Urban Design Thinking
Welche Bedarfe, Ideen und Lösungen sehen hochqualifizierte Migrant*innen für eine nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung? Inwiefern eignet sich Urban Design Thinking als ko-kreative Methode und Impuls für städtische Transformationsprozesse? Was bringen solche ko-kreativen Stadtentwicklungsprozesse mit bestimmten Bevölkerungsgruppen einer Stadt wie Mannheim und wie fügen sie sich in die Stadtpolitik ein? Wie kann man andere Städte dafür interessieren, was im Mannheimer Reallabor erprobt und erarbeitet wird? Diese neugierigen Fragen waren der Ausgangspunkt zu einem Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprozess, der sich zwischen 2016 und 2019 in der Stadt Mannheim im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts Migrants...
The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online.
Creating Urban Agricultural Systems
Creating Urban Agriculture Systems provides you with background, expertise, and inspiration for designing with urban agriculture. It shows you how to grow food in buildings and cities, operate growing systems, and integrate them with natural cycles and existing infrastructures. It teaches you the essential environmental inputs and operational strategies of urban farms, and inspires community and design tools for innovative operations and sustainable urban environments that produce fresh, local food. Over 70 projects and 16 in-depth case studies of productive, integrated systems, located in North America, Europe, and Asia ,are organized by their emphasis on nutrient, water, and energy management, farm operation, community integration and design approaches so that you can see innovative strategies in action. Interviews with leading architecture firms, including WORKac, Kiss + Cathcart, Weber Thompson, CJ Lim/Studio 8, and SOA Architectes, highlight the challenges and rewards you face when creating urban agriculture systems. Catalogs of growing and building systems, a glossary, bibliography, and abstracts will help you find information fast.
Hortitecture
HORTITECTURE explores synergies combining architecture and vital plant material - taking plants off the ground into a new conceptual and spatial context. - WorldCat.
