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Cities by Design: The Social Life of Urban Form Fran Tonkiss
Publisher: Wiley

Jul 16, 2013 - We welcome work that explores the diverse strategies and tactics aimed at transforming city life by reconfiguring social interaction, refashioning public spaces, extending the sensory experience of the city, developing new modes of activism and social change, as well as related topics. Dec 17, 2013 - 'Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design' by Charles Montgomery (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux; November 12, 2013). Architecture and urban planning reflect the designs that urban society makes of itself and the conflicts of interest related to the use of cities. Storm alert: Around 40% of the global population lives in coastal areas. PART I: Second, since transportation networks in the city have been rearranged to suit cars, alternative forms of transportation have largely been compromised, thus leaving citizens with less real choice when it comes to getting around. Dec 18, 2013 - As time went on, the term "Greater" came to apply to virtually any large city and its environs, not just New York and implied a metropolitan area or an urban area extending beyond city limits. Nov 22, 2013 - Technology is changing everyday city life, allowing us to instantly adapt to everything from storm threats to traffic jams. These forms showcased what shape a “metabolic city” would take, but failed to develop a framework or plan for how cities could modify their consumption habits at the time. Oct 10, 2013 - The methodological use, you won't be surprised to hear, comes from Arjun Appadurai and his edited collection The Social Life of Things, which was about material culture – much more material than the genetics ancestry testing that I follow in my work. Much of the large-scale devastation in these areas is due to Sensors and technological controls embedded within new and retrofitted urban designs could monitor existing conditions and provide real-time feedback in case modifications are needed. Mar 3, 2010 - Visions of how cities should be built or transformed reflect the diversity of views and perspectives on how people will and should live in cities, since planning in any form always also pursues normative goals. Which refer to metropolitan areas, micropolitan areas, and combined statistical areas as geographic entities associated with at least one core plus “adjacent territory that has a high degree of social and economic integration with the core as . Possible topics include: Cultural events and institutions designed to facilitate new forms of political participation, community formation, and environmental sustainability. In interviewing people about their use of genetic ancestry testing, they often could only talk about what the test meant to them, or the scientific authority of the test, by way of analogy to another form of genetic testing. Apr 28, 2014 - In the previous installment of CoLab Radio's City Science series, we explored a City Science approach to spatial planning and showcased standard and cutting edge modeling practices applicable to urban design and The essence of life is process, according to General Systems Theory. Nevertheless, it covers a noteworthy range of the current discussion on climate change, architecture and life in urban settings. Aug 5, 2007 - The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces is a brief book on urban plaza design from William Whyte, author of The Organization Man.