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BUILDING AND DWELLING: Ethics for the City: By RICHARD SENNETT. xiv and 343 pp.; ills., index. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2018. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780374200336.
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In 1961, the New York Times published a review of Jane Jacobs' recently released The Death and Life of Great American Cities as discussed by the authors, and the prescient reviewer (an MIT urban studies professor) mused th...Abstract:
In 1961, the New York Times published a review of Jane Jacobs’ recently released The Death and Life of Great American Cities. In it, the prescient reviewer (an MIT urban studies professor) mused th...read more
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Understanding Smart Cities: Innovation ecosystems, technological advancements, and societal challenges
TL;DR: In this paper, a special issue on "Understanding Smart Cities: Innovation Ecosystems, Technological Advancements, and Societal Challenges" is presented, where the authors take stock of past work and provide new insights through the lenses of a hybrid framework.
Journal ArticleDOI
Social infrastructure and the public life of cities: Studying urban sociality and public spaces
Alan Latham,Jack Layton +1 more
TL;DR: The concept of social infrastructure is proposed in this paper as a way to recognize the public dimensions of often overlooked and undervalued spaces, such as libraries, laundrettes, and playgrounds.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Pandemic City: Urban Issues in the Time of COVID-19
Lina Martínez,John Rennie Short +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at the context for the pandemic and then review studies and debates in four areas: transformations in the configuration of public spaces, transportation, urban connectivities, and urban economies.
Journal ArticleDOI
The new normal or the forgotten normal: contesting COVID-19 impact on contemporary architecture and urbanism
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the New Normal has become a buzzword to describe the anticipated changes in human life across the globe due to the impact of COVID-19 and call for reviving the forgotten normal in the way places, neighborhoods and cities are designed and planned.
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Social sustainability and transformation in higher educational settings : A utopia or possibility?
Lili-Ann Wolff,Peter Ehrström +1 more
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