Types of Public Spaces: The Polish Contribution to the Discussion of Suburban Public Space
TL;DR: In this paper, a deficiency of fully public spaces result in an increasingly complex mixture of different types of spaces of public functions, resulting in a more complex mix of different public functions.
Abstract: Intensive suburbanization, especially in postsocialist countries, and a deficiency of fully public spaces result in an increasingly complex mixture of different types of spaces of public functions....
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TL;DR: The authors examines the development of urban society and structure from the ancient world to the present, taking the reader from the assembly hall of Athens to the Palladium Club, from Augustine's "City of Gold" to the Turkish baths of the lower east side, from 18th century English gardens to the housing projects of east Harlem and from Nietzsche's "Birth of Tragedy" to subway graffiti.
Abstract: With an eye toward the architecture, art, literature and technology of urban life one of America's observers of society gives us an incisive study of the search for shelter and the fear of exposure to strangers and new experience in Western culture - and how these two concerns have shaped the physical fabric of the city. The author examines the development of urban society and structure from the ancient world to the present. His discussion takes the reader from the assembly hall of Athens to the Palladium Club, from Augustine's \"City of Gold\" to the Turkish baths of the lower east side, from 18th century English gardens to the housing projects of east Harlem and from Nietzsche's \"Birth of Tragedy\" to subway graffiti. By the author of \"The Hidden Injuries of Class\", \"The Fall of Public Man\" and \"Authority\".
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TL;DR: Mendez as discussed by the authors reviewed Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In written by Roger Keil and Pablo Mendez of SuburbanPlanet: Suburban Earth.
Abstract: Book Review by Pablo Mendez of Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In written by Roger Keil.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a post-industrial example of inner suburbanisation in the post-socialist Katowice conurbation in southern Poland and discuss the factors of the advancement of this process.
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TL;DR: The winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize, this book is the first detailed history of suburban life in America from its origin to the drive-in culture of today as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize, this book is the first detailed history of suburban life in America from its origin to the drive-in culture of today.
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01 Jan 1985
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the role of public housing in the ghettoization and the loss of community in the United States, focusing on the cost of good intentions.
Abstract: 1.: Suburbs as Slums 2.: The Transportation Revolution and the Erosion of the Walking City 3.: Home Sweet Home: The House and the Yard 4.: Romantic Suburbs 5.: The Main Line: Elite Suburbs and Commuter Railroads 6.: The Time of the Trolley 7.: Affordable Homes for the Common Man 8.: Suburbs into Neighborhoods: The Rise and Fall of Municipal Annexation 9.: The New Age of Automobility 10.: Suburban Development Between the Wars 11.: Federal Subsidy and the Suburban Dream: How Washington Changed the American Housing Market 12.: The Cost of Good Intentions: The Ghettoization of Public Housing in the United States 13.: The Baby Boom and the Age of the Subdivision 14.: The Drive-in Culture of Contemporary America 15.: The Loss of Community in Metropolitan America 16.: Retrospect and Prospect
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...…of housing design, garage-dominated facades, curvilinear streets and cul-de-sacs, the absence of sidewalks, and pedestrian oriented shopping areas, which encourage the privatization of leisure time (Jackson 1985; Duany and Plater-Zyberk Volume 70, Number 4, November 2018 1991; Langdon 1997)....
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21 Oct 1970
TL;DR: In this article, the first broad treatment of the city in both its historic and its contemporary aspects is presented, and the authors offer an overview of its history and its present state.
Abstract: This offers the first broad treatment of the city in both its historic and its contemporary aspects. For distinction, entertainment, information, scholarship, and general human interest [this] is one of the most distinguished books (Forum). Index; photographs. "
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...…of “fascination with private, single-family living in increasingly exclusive settings” (Hirt 2012, 107), “the collective effort to live a private life” (Mumford 1938, 43), and “conscientious rejection of socialist residential collectivism” (Hirt 2012, 107) in the case of postsocialist countries....
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01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: In this paper, the Postfordist Industrial Metropolis: Restructuring the Geopolitical Economy of Urbanism is discussed. And the Carceral Archipelago: Governing Space in the Postmetropolis.
Abstract: List of Illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgments. Part I: Remapping the Geohistory of Cityspace. . Introduction. 1. Putting Cities First. 2. The Second Urban Revolution. 3. The Third Urban Revolution: Modernity and Urban--Industrial Capitalism. 4. Metropolis in Crisis. 5. An Introduction to the Conurbation of Greater Los Angeles. Part II: Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis. . Introduction. 6. The Postfordist Industrial Metropolis: Restructuring the Geopolitical Economy of Urbanism. 7. Cosmopolis: The Globalization of Cityspace. 8. Exopolis: The Restructuring of Urban Form. 9. Fractal City: Metropolarities and the Restructured Social Mosaic. 10. The Carceral Archipelago: Governing Space in the Postmetropolis. 11. Simcities: Restructuring the Urban Imaginary. Part III: Lived Space: Rethinking 1992 in Los Angeles. 12. L. A. 1992: Overture to a Conclusion. 13. L. A. 1992: The Spaces of Representation. 14. Postcript: Critical Reflections on the Postmetropolis. Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index.
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...Soja (2000) claimed that this model can occur in any other city but on a different scale and in different ways....
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01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define personal space of the body, exclusive space of property, intimate space of home, material and institutional space of common world, and public and private spaces of the city.
Abstract: 1. Personal Space of the Body 2. Exclusive Space of the Property 3. Intimate Space of the Home 4. Interpersonal Space of Sociability 5. Communal Space of the Neighbourhood 6. Material and Institutional Space of the Common World 7. Impersonal Space of the City 8. Public and Private Spaces of the City.
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...…space, where in between there are a wide range of hybrid spaces that meet some but not all of the criteria of publicness, and ownership, thought to be one of the most important criteria, seems to be less and less important (Madanipour 2003; Kohn 2004; De Magalh~aes 2010; N emeth and Schmidt 2011)....
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...Although the model of an ideal public space has evolved over the centuries, it has become subject of special interest in the last few decades (Francis 1987; Carr et al. 1992; Madanipour 2003)....
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