Place and prosperity how cities help us to connect and innovate
There are few more powerful questions than, "Where are you from" or "Where do you live?" People feel intensely connected to cities as places and to other people who feel that same connection. In order to understand place - and understand human settlements generally - it is import...
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Island Press
2022
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction
- Part 1: Place. The making of an urbanist ; The thinning metropolis ; The garden suburb and the new urbanism ; The autocratic citizen of Philadelphia ; Having no car but plenty of cars ; Tom Hayden's cars ; Talk city ; Why I'm scared to walk in Houston ; My favorite street
- Part 2: Prosperity. Romancing the smokestack ; Company town ; The case for subsidizing the Mermaid Bar ; Korkin versus Florida ; Houston, we have a gentrification problem
- Part 3: The promised land. The long drive ; The California attitude ; The not-so-reluctant metropolis ; Living the 2 percent life ; My Los Angeles
- Conclusion: On the morning after the pandemic