Urban Redevelopment: A North American Reader - Image 1

£84.66

Routledge Urban Redevelopment: A North American Reader

Name: Urban Redevelopment: A North American Reader
Brand: Routledge
Price: 77.99 GBP
Availability: InStock

Landscape

Price History & Forecast

Last 86 days • 86 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 86 days • 7 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £75 (43 days, 50.0%)

Price range: £75 - £85

Price levels: 7 different prices over 86 days

Description

Urban redevelopment plays a major part in the growth strategy of the modern city, and the goal of this book is to examine the various aspects of redevelopment, its principles and practices in the North American context. Urban Redevelopment: A North American Reader seeks to shed light on the practice by looking at both its failures and successes, ideas that seemed to work in specific circumstances but not in others. The book aims to provide guidance to academics, practitioners and professionals on how, when, where and why, specific approaches worked and when they didn’t. While one has to deal with each case specifically, it is the interactions that are key. The contributors offer insight into how urban design affects behavior, how finance drives architectural choices, how social equity interacts with economic development, how demographical diversity drives cities’ growth, how politics determine land use decisions, how management deals with market choices, and how there are multiple influences and impacts of every decision. The book moves from the history of urban redevelopment, The City Beautiful movement, grand concourses and plazas, through urban renewal, superblocks and downtown pedestrian malls to today’s place-making: transit-oriented design, street quieting, new urbanism, publicly accessible, softer, waterfront design, funky small urban spaces and public-private megaprojects. This history also moves from grand masters such as Baron Haussmann and Robert Moses through community participation, to stakeholder involvement to creative local leadership. The increased importance of sustainability, high-energy performance, resilience and both pre- and post-catastrophe planning are also discussed in detail. Cities are acts of man, not nature; every street and building represents decisions made by people. Many of today’s best recognized urban theorists look for great forces; economic trends, technological shifts, political movements and try to analyze how they impact cities. One does not have to be a subscriber to the "great man" theory of history to see that in urban redevelopment, successful project champions use or sometimes overcome overall trends, using the tools and resources available to rebuild their community. This book is about how these projects are brought together, each somewhat differently, by the people who make them happen.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: paperback
ASIN: 1138786411
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Landscape
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 February 2016
Listed Since: 15 April 2015

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Urban Redevelopment: A North American Reader

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Urban Redevelopment: A North American Reader

Urban Revitalization: Remaking cities in a changing world

Urban Revitalization: Remaking Cities in a Changing World

Rebuilding the American City: Design and Strategy for the 21st Century Urban Core

Urban Regeneration and Renewal (Critical Concepts in Urban Studies)

Routledge Place-making and Urban Development Book

Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City

Routledge Urban Transformations: Geographies of Renewal Book

The City Reader (Routledge Urban Reader Series)

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Resilience (Routledge International Handbooks)

The Urban Design Reader (Routledge Urban Reader Series)

The Gentrification Reader

Rebuilding America's Cities: Roads to Recovery

Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City

Remaking Metropolis: Global Challenges of the Urban Landscape

Retrofitting Cities: Priorities, Governance and Experimentation

The New Urban Sociology

Transnational Architecture and Urbanism: Rethinking How Cities Plan, Transform, and Learn (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design)

Whose Public Space?: International Case Studies in Urban Design and Development

The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration

The American Urban Reader: History and Theory (Routledge Readers in History)

Routledge Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis Vol 1

Rebuilding Urban Complexity: A Configurational Approach to Postindustrial Cities (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design)

Now Urbanism: The Future City is Here