Городские исследования

Города пульсируют ритмами уличной жизни, архитектуры и бесчисленных способов, которыми люди формируют свои общие пространства. Здесь вы найдёте увлекательные исследования городской среды по всему миру — от кофейной культуры и градостроительного планирования до радикального дизайна и сложной социальной ткани, связывающей воедино жизнь мегаполисов.

Городские исследования Саммари книг

Rebel Cities

— David Harvey • 2012

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

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🌆 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.

— David Harvey 2012 206 стр.

3.92

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🌆 Urban Capitalism 🗺️ Marxist Geography 🏛️ Political Economy

Ghetto

— 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.

— Mitchell Duneier 2015 304 стр.

3.75

500+ оценок

🏙️ Urban History 💡 Intellectual History 🧱 Racial Segregation

The Rise of the Creative Class

— Richard Florida • 2004

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

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🏙️ 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.

— Richard Florida 2004 434 стр.

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🏙️ Urban Economics 🎨 Creative Industries 🧠 Knowledge Work

Uses of Disorder

— 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.

— Richard Sennett 1970 198 стр.

3.88

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🏙️ Urban Sociology 🧩 Identity Formation 🚧 Social Segregation

The Economy of Cities

— Jane Jacobs • 1969

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

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🏙️ 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.

— Jane Jacobs 1969 288 стр.

4.09

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🏙️ Urban Economics 📦 Import Substitution ⚙️ Division Of Labor

Against the smart city

— Adam Greenfield • 2013

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

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🏙️ Smart Cities 📐 Urban Planning 🔬 Technological Critique

Against the smart city

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

— Adam Greenfield 2013 152 стр.

3.96

132 оценок

🏙️ Smart Cities 📐 Urban Planning 🔬 Technological Critique

Flesh and Stone

— Richard Sennett • 1996

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

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🏙️ 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.

— Richard Sennett 1996 432 стр.

4.28

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🏙️ Urban History 🧬 History Of The Body 🏛️ Architectural Theory

Coffee Life in Japan (Volume 36)

— Merry White • 2012

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

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🫘 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.

— Merry White 2012 240 стр.

3.72

137 оценок

🫘 Coffee Culture 🏠 Third Spaces 🇯🇵 Japanese Culture

No Shame in My Game

— 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.

— Katherine S. Newman 1999 416 стр.

3.75

466 оценок

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

Radical Cities

— Justin McGuirk • 2014

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

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🏚️ 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.

— Justin McGuirk 2014 304 стр.

4.27

434 оценок

🏚️ Informal Settlements ✊ Activist Architecture 🌎 Latin American Cities

The Edifice Complex

— Deyan Sudjic • 2006

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

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🏛️ Architecture And Power 🧠 Political Psychology ⭐ Starchitecture

The Edifice Complex

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

— Deyan Sudjic 2006 403 стр.

3.8

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🏛️ Architecture And Power 🧠 Political Psychology ⭐ Starchitecture

Streetfight

— Janette Sadik-Khan • 2016

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

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🛣️ Street Design 🎨 Tactical Urbanism 🌳 Public Space

Streetfight

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

— Janette Sadik-Khan 2016 368 стр.

4.26

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🛣️ Street Design 🎨 Tactical Urbanism 🌳 Public Space

Vital Little Plans

— Jane Jacobs • 2016

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

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🏙️ Urban Vitality 🚶 Walkable Cities 🏪 Mixed-Use Development

Vital Little Plans

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

— Jane Jacobs 2016 544 стр.

4.21

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🏙️ Urban Vitality 🚶 Walkable Cities 🏪 Mixed-Use Development

The Origins of the Urban Crisis

— Thomas J. Sugrue • 1996

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

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🏙️ 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.

— Thomas J. Sugrue 1996 416 стр.

4.24

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🏙️ Urban History ⚖️ Racial Inequality 🏭 Deindustrialization

Sidewalk

— Mitchell Duneier • 1999

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

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🛝 Urban Ethnography 💰 Informal Economies 🚨 Broken Windows Debate

Sidewalk

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

— Mitchell Duneier 1999 400 стр.

4.15

1 000+ оценок

🛝 Urban Ethnography 💰 Informal Economies 🚨 Broken Windows Debate

Urban Acupuncture

— 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.

— Jaime Lerner 2003 160 стр.

3.66

490 оценок

🏙️ Urban Design ⚡ Tactical Urbanism 🌳 Public Space

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