Rethinking the American City: An International Dialogue
By Miles Orvell
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
Whether struggling in the wake of postindustrial decay or reinventing themselves with new technologies and populations, cities have once again moved to the center of intellectual and political concern. Rethinking the American City brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to examine an array of topics that illuminate the past, present, and future of cities.
Rethinking the American City offers a lively and fascinating survey of contemporary thinking about cities in a transnational context. Utilizing an innovative format, each chapter opens with an iconic image and includes a brief and provocative essay on a single topic followed by an extended dialogue among all the essayists. Topics range from energy use, design, and digital media to transportation systems and housing to public art, urban ruins, and futurist visions. By engaging with key contemporary concerns—public and private space, sustainability, ethnic and racial divisions, and technology—this volume illuminates how global society has imagined American urban life.
Contributors: Klaus Benesch, Dolores Hayden, David M. Lubin, Malcolm McCullough, Jeffrey L. Meikle, David E. Nye, Miles Orvell, Andrew Ross, Mabel O. Wilson, Albena Yaneva.
Miles Orvell
Miles Orvell is professor of English and American studies at Temple University. He is the author of The Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community.
Read more from Miles Orvell
The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Rethinking the American City
Related ebooks
Rethinking the American City: An International Dialogue Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaking Cities Global: The Transnational Turn in Urban History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGlobal Downtowns Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTransformations: Art and the City Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrom a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRe-Imagining the City: Art, Globalization and Urban Spaces Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUrban Transformations in the U.S.A.: Spaces, Communities, Representations Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLife Among Urban Planners: Practice, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Changing American Neighborhood: The Meaning of Place in the Twenty-First Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaking Place: Space and Embodiment in the City Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeyond the Supersquare: Art and Architecture in Latin America after Modernism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKeys to the City: How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLandscape as Urbanism: A General Theory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Golden Ages, Dark Ages: Imagining the Past in Anthropology and History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBuilding the Urban Environment: Visions of the Organic City in the United States, Europe, and Latin America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShaking Up the City: Ignorance, Inequality, and the Urban Question Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Just City Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNew York City, 1664–1710: Conquest and Change Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCities of Power: The Urban, The National, The Popular, The Global Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Civitas by Design: Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Politics of Urban Water: Changing Waterscapes in Amsterdam Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMiddle Eastern Cities: A Symposium on Ancient, Islamic, and Contemporary Middle Eastern Urbanism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpaces of the Poor: Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitants Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCity Dreams, Country Schemes: Community and Identity in the American West Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Building of Cities: Development and Conflict Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe City Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Environmental Design: Architecture, Politics, and Science in Postwar America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDesigning London's Public Spaces Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Public Policy For You
The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe (and Maybe You Should Too) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAgainst Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Capital in the Twenty-First Century Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works--and How It Fails Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chasing the Scream: The Inspiration for the Feature Film "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Social Security 101: From Medicare to Spousal Benefits, an Essential Primer on Government Retirement Aid Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5America: The Farewell Tour Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Affluent Society Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Deception: The Great Covid Cover-Up Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNo More Police: A Case for Abolition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Rethinking the American City
0 ratings0 reviews