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Rebel Cities

av David Harvey • 2012

Capitalism doesn't just happen in cities. It happens through them, and the rent is coming due.

3.92

2 000+

🌆 Urban Capitalism 🗺️ Marxist Geography 🏛️ Political Economy

Rebel Cities

Capitalism doesn't just happen in cities. It happens through them, and the rent is coming due.

av David Harvey 2012 206 sider

3.92

2 000+ vurderinger

🌆 Urban Capitalism 🗺️ Marxist Geography 🏛️ Political Economy

Ghetto

av Mitchell Duneier • 2015

The ghetto was built in Venice. It took 500 years for America to perfect it.

3.75

500+

🏙️ Urban History 💡 Intellectual History 🧱 Racial Segregation

Ghetto

The ghetto was built in Venice. It took 500 years for America to perfect it.

av Mitchell Duneier 2015 304 sider

3.75

500+ vurderinger

🏙️ Urban History 💡 Intellectual History 🧱 Racial Segregation

The Rise of the Creative Class

av Richard Florida • 2004

Jobs once followed factories. Now a class of creatives clusters in the most tolerant cities.

3.68

3 000+

🏙️ Urban Economics 🎨 Creative Industries 🧠 Knowledge Work

The Rise of the Creative Class

Jobs once followed factories. Now a class of creatives clusters in the most tolerant cities.

av Richard Florida 2004 434 sider

3.68

3 000+ vurderinger

🏙️ Urban Economics 🎨 Creative Industries 🧠 Knowledge Work

Uses of Disorder

av Richard Sennett • 1970

The young craving for purity is architecting our cities into sterile, segregated cages.

3.88

258

🏙️ Urban Sociology 🧩 Identity Formation 🚧 Social Segregation

Uses of Disorder

The young craving for purity is architecting our cities into sterile, segregated cages.

av Richard Sennett 1970 198 sider

3.88

258 vurderinger

🏙️ Urban Sociology 🧩 Identity Formation 🚧 Social Segregation

The Economy of Cities

av Jane Jacobs • 1969

Cities didn't follow farms; farms followed cities. That reversal explains every economic boom.

4.09

1 000+

🏙️ Urban Economics 📦 Import Substitution ⚙️ Division Of Labor

The Economy of Cities

Cities didn't follow farms; farms followed cities. That reversal explains every economic boom.

av Jane Jacobs 1969 288 sider

4.09

1 000+ vurderinger

🏙️ Urban Economics 📦 Import Substitution ⚙️ Division Of Labor

Against the smart city

av Adam Greenfield • 2013

Smart cities sell efficiency but deliver surveillance. The real operating system is people.

3.96

132

🏙️ Smart Cities 📐 Urban Planning 🔬 Technological Critique

Against the smart city

Smart cities sell efficiency but deliver surveillance. The real operating system is people.

av Adam Greenfield 2013 152 sider

3.96

132 vurderinger

🏙️ Smart Cities 📐 Urban Planning 🔬 Technological Critique

Flesh and Stone

av Richard Sennett • 1996

Why Western cities silence the body, and how the body fights back in stone.

4.28

500+

🏙️ Urban History 🧬 History Of The Body 🏛️ Architectural Theory

Flesh and Stone

Why Western cities silence the body, and how the body fights back in stone.

av Richard Sennett 1996 432 sider

4.28

500+ vurderinger

🏙️ Urban History 🧬 History Of The Body 🏛️ Architectural Theory

Coffee Life in Japan (Volume 36)

av Merry White • 2012

A tea-loving nation now ranks third in global coffee consumption. Its cafés hold the explanation.

3.72

137

🫘 Coffee Culture 🏠 Third Spaces 🇯🇵 Japanese Culture

Coffee Life in Japan (Volume 36)

A tea-loving nation now ranks third in global coffee consumption. Its cafés hold the explanation.

av Merry White 2012 240 sider

3.72

137 vurderinger

🫘 Coffee Culture 🏠 Third Spaces 🇯🇵 Japanese Culture

No Shame in My Game

av Katherine S. Newman • 1999

The job everyone ridicules might be the best shot at dignity for America's working poor.

3.75

466

🧐 Urban Ethnography 🧑‍🏭 Working Poor 🍔 Low-Wage Labor

No Shame in My Game

The job everyone ridicules might be the best shot at dignity for America's working poor.

av Katherine S. Newman 1999 416 sider

3.75

466 vurderinger

🧐 Urban Ethnography 🧑‍🏭 Working Poor 🍔 Low-Wage Labor

Radical Cities

av Justin McGuirk • 2014

The slums and squatter towers of Latin America are the world's most daring urban experiments.

4.27

434

🏚️ Informal Settlements ✊ Activist Architecture 🌎 Latin American Cities

Radical Cities

The slums and squatter towers of Latin America are the world's most daring urban experiments.

av Justin McGuirk 2014 304 sider

4.27

434 vurderinger

🏚️ Informal Settlements ✊ Activist Architecture 🌎 Latin American Cities

The Edifice Complex

av Deyan Sudjic • 2006

From Hitler's Reich Chancellery to the Bilbao Guggenheim, what monuments are really for.

3.8

380

🏛️ Architecture And Power 🧠 Political Psychology ⭐ Starchitecture

The Edifice Complex

From Hitler's Reich Chancellery to the Bilbao Guggenheim, what monuments are really for.

av Deyan Sudjic 2006 403 sider

3.8

380 vurderinger

🏛️ Architecture And Power 🧠 Political Psychology ⭐ Starchitecture

Streetfight

av Janette Sadik-Khan • 2016

Paint, data, and political nerve: beating the car-first status quo.

4.26

2 000+

🛣️ Street Design 🎨 Tactical Urbanism 🌳 Public Space

Streetfight

Paint, data, and political nerve: beating the car-first status quo.

av Janette Sadik-Khan 2016 368 sider

4.26

2 000+ vurderinger

🛣️ Street Design 🎨 Tactical Urbanism 🌳 Public Space

Vital Little Plans

av Jane Jacobs • 2016

Top-down planning kills cities. The sidewalk sees what the drafting table never will.

4.21

186

🏙️ Urban Vitality 🚶 Walkable Cities 🏪 Mixed-Use Development

Vital Little Plans

Top-down planning kills cities. The sidewalk sees what the drafting table never will.

av Jane Jacobs 2016 544 sider

4.21

186 vurderinger

🏙️ Urban Vitality 🚶 Walkable Cities 🏪 Mixed-Use Development

The Origins of the Urban Crisis

av Thomas J. Sugrue • 1996

Detroit collapsed from job loss and housing segregation decades before the 1967 riot finished it.

4.24

2 000+

🏙️ Urban History ⚖️ Racial Inequality 🏭 Deindustrialization

The Origins of the Urban Crisis

Detroit collapsed from job loss and housing segregation decades before the 1967 riot finished it.

av Thomas J. Sugrue 1996 416 sider

4.24

2 000+ vurderinger

🏙️ Urban History ⚖️ Racial Inequality 🏭 Deindustrialization

Sidewalk

av Mitchell Duneier • 1999

Some of the most disorderly figures on the sidewalk are also the ones preventing real crime.

4.15

1 000+

🛝 Urban Ethnography 💰 Informal Economies 🚨 Broken Windows Debate

Sidewalk

Some of the most disorderly figures on the sidewalk are also the ones preventing real crime.

av Mitchell Duneier 1999 400 sider

4.15

1 000+ vurderinger

🛝 Urban Ethnography 💰 Informal Economies 🚨 Broken Windows Debate

Urban Acupuncture

av Jaime Lerner • 2003

Fast, precise interventions where a city hurts trigger chain reactions no master plan ever could.

3.66

490

🏙️ Urban Design ⚡ Tactical Urbanism 🌳 Public Space

Urban Acupuncture

Fast, precise interventions where a city hurts trigger chain reactions no master plan ever could.

av Jaime Lerner 2003 160 sider

3.66

490 vurderinger

🏙️ Urban Design ⚡ Tactical Urbanism 🌳 Public Space

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