Place and prosperity how cities help us to connect and innovate
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 -...
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Island Press
2022
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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 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 important to understand that places are not created by accident. They are created in order to further a political or economic agenda. Better cities emerge when the people who shape them think more broadly and consciously about the places they are creating. In "Place and Prosperity," urban planning expert William Fulton takes an engaging look at the process by which these decisions about places are made, how cities are engines of prosperity, and how place and prosperity are deeply intertwined. Fulton has been writing about cities over his forty-year career that includes working as a journalist, professor, mayor, planning director, and the director of an urban think tank in one of America's great cities. "Place and Prosperity" is a curated collection of his writings with new and updated selections and framing material. Though the essays in this book are in some ways personal, drawing on Fulton's experience in learning and writing about cities, their primary purpose is to show how these two ideas - place and prosperity. |
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| Beschreibung: | xxv, 187 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781642832501 978-1-64283-250-1 |