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Local organizations : intermediaries in rural development.
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ISBN: 0801495083 Year: 1988 Publisher: Ithaca (N.Y.) Cornell university press

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Antwerpen : de gloriejaren
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ISBN: 9789403134215 9403134216 Year: 2021 Publisher: Amsterdam De Bezige Bij

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De stad die Antwerpen ooit geweest is, is vandaag de dag haast onherkenbaar. Verwoest door de vlammen en bombardementen van de wereldoorlogen is haar geschiedenis goed verstopt achter een façade van herbouwde monumenten. Toch was de havenstad ooit het middelpunt van de wereld. Als handelscentrum kende Antwerpen in de zestiende eeuw geen evenbeeld, en haar rijkdom en weelde leken ongeëvenaard. De stad van Plantijn en Brueghel stond bol van de bedrijvigheid. Bezoekers kwamen met hun koopwaar uit alle uithoeken van de wereld naar de stad waar de geldhandel floreerde. Tegelijkertijd kende Antwerpen ook een schaduwkant: rellen, muiterijen en de inquisitie, die als een donkere wolk boven de joodse en protestante inwoners hing, lieten de uitzonderlijke welvaart van korte duur zijn. Desalniettemin blijkt de invloed van Antwerpen blijvend. Met Antwerpen ontsluit bestsellerauteur Michael Pye het verhaal van een stad die tegen alle verwachtingen in opkwam als het kloppend hart van de zestiende eeuw, en in korte tijd de wereld wist te veranderen. Eén ding is volgens Pye zeker: zonder de Antwerpse geschiedenis zou vandaag niets hetzelfde zijn.

The Mediterranean city in transition : social change and urban development
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ISBN: 0521344670 0521025257 0511522207 0511828519 Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Postwar capitalist development has involved a transition from polarization toward diffuse urbanization and flexibility. The timing and form of this transition and its effects on spatial structures have varied, as is especially evident in the case of Mediterranean Europe. Focusing upon Greater Athens between 1948 and 1981 - the crucial period of the transition - Lila Leontidou explores the role of social classes in urban development. The emergence of new processes in cities such as Athens, Salonica, Rome, Naples, Milan, Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon is different in both timing and manner from that of northern European cities, but, as Dr Leontidou argues, this should not be attributed to poverty or inexplicable cultural peculiarities. Instead interaction between popular spontaneity, economic forces and State control has played a major role.


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Urban anthropology.
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ISSN: 23281014 Year: 1972 Publisher: Brockport, NY : Jack R. Rollwagen, Dept. of Anthropology, SUNY-Brockport,

America becomes urban : the development of U.S. cities & towns, 1780-1980
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ISBN: 0520061918 9780520061910 0520069722 9780520069725 0585181551 Year: 1988 Publisher: Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press


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New towns : an investigation on urbanism
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ISBN: 9783868594614 3868594612 Year: 2018 Publisher: Berlin Jovis

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The enormous increase of urbanization characterizing the 20th century often overlays the architectural approaches that took place when cities were founded and continue to have an effect into the present day. Many cities have been newly planned and built from the ground up and relevant new towns’ yards are open in Asia and Africa. What they all have in common is the search for a new urban beginning.The aim of ambitious programs in the forthcoming decades should especially be a better control of the growth of metropolises and urbanized regional patterns, with a view to the environmental behavior of people. This book, which not only presents fundamental international planning features, examines factors such as location, size and layout in particular, as well as the spatial value of new metropolises.


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Why cities look the way they do
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ISBN: 0745691811 9780745691817 9780745691800 9780745691848 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge Polity

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When we think about how cities look, we tend to focus on architecture and design. But the character of a city is not just the result of planners and designers: it is also the result of the many ways in which people use, appropriate and repurpose its spaces in the everyday life of the city. The city is not built; it is lived.Architectural criticism invariably stops at the moment construction is completed. Richard Williams instead takes that moment not as the end but the beginning, tracing the social and cultural processes that produce the look of contemporary global cities. It is the story of how financial capital spawns empty towering skyscrapers and hollowed-out ghettoes; how the zoning of once-illicit sexual practices in marginal areas of the city result in the reinvention of culturally vibrant gay villages; how abandoned factories are repurposed as creative hubs in an increasingly precarious post-industrial economy. It is also a story of how popular urban clichés and the portrayal of cities in films and other media powerfully shape how we read and see the bricks, concrete and glass that surround us.Thought-provoking and original, this book will appeal to anyone interested in urban spaces and will shed new light on one of humanity’s greatest collective inventions.


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The cybercities reader
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ISBN: 9780415279567 9780415279550 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxon ; New York : Routledge,

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Providing the most comprehensive, international and interdisciplinary analysis yet of the relationships between cities, urban life and new technologies, this informative book incorporates detailed discussions of cybercity history, theory, economic processes, mobilities, physical forms, social and cultural worlds, digital divides, public domains, strategies, politics and futures. The book includes coverage of post modern technoculture, virtual reality and the body, global city economies, urban surveillance, e-commerce, teleworking, community informatics, digital architecture, urban technology strategies, and the role of cities and new technologies in the 'war on terrorism'. The first interdisciplinary book to address the complex interrelationships between the use and application of electronic technologies and practices and processes of contemporary metropolitan life, this key text adopts a uniquely international perspective. Detailed case studies include 'virtual cities' in Amsterdam, Internet cabins in Lima, back offices in Jamaica, and 'smart' highways in Melbourne. An excellent teaching aid with part, section and individual extract introductions, this outstanding book provides an up-to-date snapshot of how policies for cities and cyberspaces are being combined across the world.


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Distributed Urbanism : Cities after Google Earth
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ISBN: 9780415562317 0415562317 9780415562324 0415562325 Year: 2010 Publisher: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon New York Routledge

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What form of housing will emerge in Dubai, where the majority of the population are non-citizens and the average length of stay is three days? How will depopulating cities reclaim vacant space, reorganize infrastructure and redefine their economic identity? What type of architecture results from the prevalence of airborne contaminants? What kind of urbanism does Google Earth produce? Exploring the increasingly decentralized systems through which cities are organized and produced, Distributed Urbanism highlights the architectural practices that are emerging in response. Unlike early models of urbanism, in which centralized models of production, communication and governance were sited within a central business district, contemporary urbanism is shaped by remote, distributed mechanisms such as information technologies, (i.e. SatNav, Google Earth, E-trade, Photosynth or RSS web feeds) cooperative economic models and environmental networks, many of which are physically remote from the cities they shape. Consisting of a collection of case studies on global cities including Rotterdam, Tokyo, Barcelona, Detroit, Hong Kong, Dubai, Beijing and Mumbai, Distributed Urbanism draws on these cities in relation to current events, urban schemes and demographic data. All the contributors, a combination of commentators on urbanism and architecture, as well as practitioners in the field, are admired for their work in the area of urban change.

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