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Business improvement districts from Oxford Bibliographies Online - Urban Studies by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780190922481Business improvement districts (BIDs) are a form of special purpose government that utilize special assessments on real property to deliver services to a spatially defined commercial area. The first BIDs emerged in North America in the early to mid-1970s. They grew tremendously in the early 1990s, with some current estimates exceeding 1,500 BIDs globally as of 2018. While the legal and administrative process to create and govern BIDs varies in the United States based on state laws and local ordinances, they are typically created through a vote of affected property owners after some period of public disclosure and hearings. ...
Comparative urbanism from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199874002“Comparative urbanism” refers to research that acknowledges the diversity of urban experiences, avoids assumptions of theoretical best fits prior to any investigation, and develops knowledge through close engagement with the diverse empirical reality. Comparative urbanism is a topic long in the making, but also rapidly emerging since the early 2000s. ...
David Simon's american city by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781526162533This book examines the television serials created by influential showrunner David Simon. The book argues that Simon's main theme is the state of the contemporary American city and that all of his serials (barring one about the Iraq War) explore different facets of the metropolis. Each series offers distinctly different visions of the American city, but taken together they represent a sustained and intricate exploration of urban problems in modern America. ...- Edge cities and urban sprawl by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199874002In the decades following World War II, the United States witnessed great population shifts away from major cities and the mass residential and commercial development of outlying metropolitan areas. These processes of suburbanization yielded new patterns of low-density urban development, or sprawl. Also appearing in various socio-spatial valences across the globe over the last half-century or so in particular, sprawl presents unique political, social, environmental, economic, and transportation challenges. ...
- Urban heritage from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199874002The concept of urban heritage has two meanings. First, urban heritage can refer to the list of heritage elements located in urban areas: archaeological vestiges, historical buildings, vernacular architecture, historical gardens, social practices, rituals, and festive events, among others. Second, urban heritage can refer to the city as heritage, a special type of cultural property that is mainly associated with neighborhoods, urban centers, and historic cities. This article focuses on the second meaning. ...
- World cities from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Call Number: Electronic resourceISBN: 9780199874002Large and significant cities have fascinated researchers over the last century. This is indicated by the wide range of terms used to describe cities, whereby over the last couple of decades “global cities” and “world cities” have gradually become key—yet contested—concepts. ...
Internet resource(s)
- The Nature of Cities
The mission of The Nature of Cities is to curate joined conversations about urbanism across ways of knowing and modes of action. ...
Defining "the city"
An agglomeration of people, businesses, and governmental institutions whose activities service a wider region and which, in the 21st century, is normally connected to international flows of information, goods, money, and people. Many cities are governed by a local state body responsible for some or all of the urban area. In rare cases, such as Washington, DC or Brasilia, politics becomes a city’s raison d’être. There are no internationally agreed criteria for identifying cities, for example, by extent or population size; each country or, in the case of the USA each state, designates cities according to its own rules, which usually include legal or jurisdictional elements. A city has some power, for example, over taxation, planning, or control over schools, not possessed by other districts. Although English-speaking countries generally refer to cities as places with more inhabitants than towns, in other languages—German and French for example—there is no such distinction. In China, by contrast, there is a threefold hierarchy of municipal-, prefecture- and county-level cities, the minimum size for which is set at 100,000 non-agricultural workers. Canadian cities may possess fewer than 10,000 inhabitants.
Viewed more historically, cities have undergone a number of transformations in form, function, and meaning. Although there is some debate, it is commonly agree that cities first emerged with the Neolithic revolution in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, China, and Egypt. A combination of agricultural surplus, classes not directly engaged in agriculture, writing, and organized religion consolidated in cities. Cities also developed as centres of trade, around marketplaces, and political power (see pre-industrial city). With the Industrial Revolution, urban areas were increasingly characterized by agglomeration, the dense and inter-dependent concentration of labour and factories famously described by Friedrich Engels in Manchester, UK. ...
Rogers, A., Castree, N., & Kitchin, R. (2013). City. In A Dictionary of Human Geography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 Aug. 2021
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Introductory reading(s)
American urban form: a representative history by Call Number: Baker-Berry HT 123 .W228 2012ISBN: 9780262017213American urban form -- the spaces, places, and boundaries that define city life -- has been evolving since the first settlements of colonial days. The changing patterns of houses, buildings, streets, parks, pipes and wires, wharves, railroads, highways, and airports reflect changing patterns of the social, political, and economic processes that shape the city. In this book, Sam Bass Warner and Andrew Whittemore map more than three hundred years of the American city through the evolution of urban form. They do this by offering an illustrated history of "the City" -- a hypothetical city (constructed from the histories of Boston, Philadelphia, and New York) that exemplifies the American city's transformation from village to regional metropolis. ...
The city as action: retheorizing urban studies by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781003196792In constructing the urban as a set of interconnected actions, this book presents a less travelled route to understanding the city. It leads to a fresh perspective on several issues central to urban theory, including the uniqueness of a city alongside practices it shares with other urban places. This book presents an innovative theoretical contribution to the field of urban studies, bridging the gap between western centric scholarship and perspectives from the global South. ...
Growing greener cities: urban sustainability in the twenty-first century by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780812220377Nineteenth-century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted described his most famous project, the design of New York's Central Park, as "a democratic development of highest significance." Over the years, the significance of green in civic life has grown. In twenty-first-century America, not only open space but also other issues of sustainability--such as potable water and carbon footprints--have become crucial elements in the quality of life in the city and surrounding environment. Confronted by a U.S. population that is more than 70 percent urban, growing concern about global warming, rising energy prices, and unabated globalization, today's decision makers must find ways to bring urban life into balance with the Earth in order to sustain the natural, economic, and political environment of the modern city. In Growing Greener Cities, a collection of essays on urban sustainability and environmental issues, scholars and practitioners alike promote activities that recognize and conserve nature's ability to sustain urban life. ...
Lively cities: reconfiguring urban ecology by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781452969657One of the fundamental dimensions of urbanization is its radical transformation of nature. Today domestic animals make up more than twice the biomass of people on the planet, and cities are replete with nonhuman life. Yet current accounts of the urban remain resolutely anthropocentric. Lively Cities departs from conventions of urban studies to argue that cities are lived achievements forged by a multitude of entities, drawing attention to a suite of beings--human and nonhuman--that make up the material politics of city making. From macaques and cattle in Delhi to the invasive parakeet colonies in London, Maan Barua examines the rhythms, paths, and agency of nonhumans across the city. ...
Living downtown: the history of residential hotels in the United States by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780520312791From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residences constitute an essential housing resource, or are they, as charged, a public nuisance? Living Downtown, the first comprehensive social and cultural history of life in American residential hotels, adds a much-needed historical perspective to this ongoing debate. Creatively combining evidence from biographies, buildings and urban neighborhoods, workplace records, and housing policies, Paul Groth provides a definitive analysis of life in four price-differentiated types of downtown residence. He demonstrates that these hotels have played a valuable socioeconomic role as home to both long-term residents and temporary laborers. ...
Making cities global: the transnational turn in urban history by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780812294408In recent decades, hundreds of millions of people across the world have moved from rural areas to metropolitan regions, some of them crossing national borders on the way. While urbanization and globalization are proceeding with an intensity that seems unprecedented, these are only the most recent iterations of long-term transformations--cities have for centuries served as vital points of contact between different peoples, economies, and cultures. Making Cities Global explores the intertwined development of urbanization and globalization using a historical approach that demonstrates the many forms transnationalism has taken, each shaped by the circumstances of a particular time and place. ...
The Oxford handbook of cities in world history by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780199589531In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind's greatest collective achievements over time and raises many questions. How did global city systems evolve and interact in the past? How have historic urban patterns impacted on those of the contemporary world? And what were the key drivers in the roller-coaster of urban change over the millennia - market forces such as trade and industry? rulers and governments? competition and collaboration between cities? or the urban environment and demographic forces? This pioneering comparative work by fifty leading scholars drawn from a range of disciplines offers the first detailed comparative study of urban development from ancient times to the present day. ...
Urban social geography: an introduction by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780273717638Publication Date: 6th ed.The 6th edition of this highly respected text examines urban social geography from a theoretical and historical perspective, it also explores how it has developed into the modern day. Taking account of recent critical work, whilst simultaneously presenting well established approaches to the subject, it ensures students are well-informed about all the issues. The result is a topical book that is clear and accessible for students.
Selected book title(s)
The affordable city: strategies for putting housing within reach (and keeping it there) by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781642831337From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crises of high housing costs and household instability. Debates over the appropriate course of action have been defined by two poles: building more housing or enacting stronger tenant protections. These options are often treated as mutually exclusive, with support for one implying opposition to the other. Shane Phillips believes that effectively tackling the housing crisis requires that cities support both tenant protections and housing abundance. He offers readers more than 50 policy recommendations, beginning with a set of principles and general recommendations that should apply to all housing policy. The remaining recommendations are organized by what he calls the Three S's of Supply, Stability, and Subsidy. ...
Barrio America: how latino immigrants saved the American city by Call Number: Baker-Berry HT 175 .S25 2019ISBN: 9781541697249Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give up on American cities. We are commonly told that it was a "creative class" of young professionals who revived a moribund urban America in the 1990s and 2000s. But this stunning reversal owes much more to another, far less visible group: Latino and Latina newcomers. Historian A. K. Sandoval-Strausz reveals this history by focusing on two barrios: Chicago's Little Village and Dallas's Oak Cliff. These neighborhoods lost residents and jobs for decades before Latin American immigration turned them around beginning in the 1970s. ...
Cities at war: global insecurity and urban resistance by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780231546133Warfare in the twenty-first century goes well beyond conventional armies and nation-states. In a world of diffuse conflicts taking place across sprawling cities, war has become fragmented and uneven to match its settings. Yet the analysis of failed states, civil war, and state building rarely considers the city, rather than the country, as the terrain of battle.In Cities at War, Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen assemble an international team of scholars to examine cities as sites of contemporary warfare and insecurity. ...
Imagine Lagos: mapping history, place, and politics in a nineteenth-century African city by Call Number: Baker-Berry DT 515.9 .L3 A34 2024ISBN: 9780821424896Written from a digital humanities perspective, this book combines historical sources, maps, and a walking cartography to create new perspectives on the nineteenth-century history of Lagos, West Africa's most populous city. What traces do people leave in the places where they live, and even where they die? This book addresses the spatial history of nineteenth-century Lagos, rebuilding its past as a series of encounters: between men and women, between past and present, between enslaved and free, between living and dead, and finally between land and lagoon. ...
In divisible cities: a phanto-cartographical missive by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780615853192In Divisible Cities takes Italo Calvino's classic re-imagining of Venice, viewed in the mind's eye from many different metaphysical angles, and projects it on to the world at large. Where the Italian saw his favorite city as an impossible metropolis of many moods, shades, and ways of being, this unauthorized sequel unpacks the Escheresque streets in unexpected directions. In Divisible Cities is thus an exercise in cartographic origami: the reflective and poetic result of the narrator's desire to map hidden cities, secret cities, imaginary cities, impossible cities, and overlapping cities, existing beneath the familiar Atlas of everyday perception. ...
Sensing the city: a companion to urban anthropology by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9783035608489The city is more than demography and architecture, it is a state of mind. Various groups, scenes and subcultures, widely known as "man in the street", shape and are shaped by urban space and its history according to imaginations, nightmares and dreams. Urban anthropologists get immersed in this closely knit fabric of urban culture and conduct field research with all their senses. This reader provides a compact introduction into urban anthropology, which has become the key discipline in exploring cities and city live as sites of encounter, conflict and sensation. It introduces the most influential writers in the field as well as young and upcoming field researchers. ...
Taking the land to make the city: a bicoastal history of North America by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781477317839The history of the United States is often told as a movement westward, beginning at the Atlantic coast and following farmers across the continent. But cities played an equally important role in the country's formation. Towns sprung up along the Pacific as well as the Atlantic, as Spaniards and Englishmen took Indian land and converted it into private property. In this reworking of early American history, Mary P. Ryan shows how cities--specifically San Francisco and Baltimore--were essential parties to the creation of the republics of the United States and Mexico. ...
Urban formalism: the work of city reading by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780823288052Urban Formalism radically reimagines what it meant to “read” a brave new urban world during the transformative middle decades of the nineteenth century. At a time when contemporaries in the twin capitals of modernity in the West, New York and Paris, were learning to make sense of unfamiliar surroundings, city peoples increasingly looked to the experiential patterns, or forms, from their everyday lives in an attempt to translate urban experience into something they could more easily comprehend. ...
Urban histories of science: making knowledge in the city, 1820-1940 by Call Number: Baker-Berry Q 127 .E85 U73 2019ISBN: 9780415784177This book tells ten urban histories of science from nine cities: Athens, Barcelona, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Dublin (2 articles), Glasgow, Helsinki, Lisbon, and Naples, situated on the geographical margins of Europe and beyond. Ranging from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, the contents of this volume debate why and how we should study the scientific culture of cities, often considered "peripheral" in terms of their production of knowledge. ...
Finding scholarly articles and journals
Cities: the international journal of urban policy and planning by Call Number: Electronic journalThe primary aims of the journal are to analyze and assess past and present urban development and management as a reflection of effective, ineffective and non-existent planning policies; and the promotion of the implementation of appropriate urban policies in both the developed and the developing world.
City, culture and societyCall Number: Electronic journalThe 21st century has been dubbed the century of cities - sustainable cities, compact cities, post-modern cities, mega-cities, and more. CCS focuses on urban governance in the 21st century, under the banner of cultural creativity and social inclusion. Its primary goal is to promote pioneering research on cities and to foster the sort of urban administration that has the vision and authority to reinvent cities adapted to the challenges of the 21st century. ...
Urban historyCall Number: Electronic journalUrban History occupies a central place in historical scholarship, with an outstanding record of interdisciplinary contributions, and a broad-based and distinguished panel of referees and international advisors. Each issue features wide-ranging research articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities. ...
The web of science citation databases by Call Number: Electronic resourceThe online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.
