Cities Made Of Boundaries
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Author |
: Benjamin N. Vis |
Publisher |
: UCL Press |
Total Pages |
: 419 |
Release |
: 2018-09-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781787351073 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1787351076 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cities Made of Boundaries by : Benjamin N. Vis
Cities Made of Boundaries presents the theoretical foundation and concepts for a new social scientific urban morphological mapping method, Boundary Line Type (BLT) Mapping. Its vantage is a plea to establish a frame of reference for radically comparative urban studies positioned between geography and archaeology. Based in multidisciplinary social and spatial theory, a critical realist understanding of the boundaries that compose built space is operationalised by a mapping practice utilising Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Benjamin N. Vis gives a precise account of how BLT Mapping can be applied to detailed historical, reconstructed, contemporary, and archaeological urban plans, exemplified by sixteenth to twenty-first century Winchester (UK) and Classic Maya Chunchucmil (Mexico). This account demonstrates how the functional and experiential difference between compact western and tropical dispersed cities can be explored. The methodological development of Cities Made of Boundaries will appeal to readers interested in the comparative social analysis of built environments, and those seeking to expand the evidence-base of design options to structure urban life and development.
Author |
: Benjamin N. Vis |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1787351084 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781787351080 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cities Made of Boundaries by : Benjamin N. Vis
Cities Made of Boundaries presents the theoretical foundation and concepts for a new social scientific urban morphological mapping method, Boundary Line Type (BLT) Mapping.
Author |
: Kevin Lynch |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 1964-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0262620014 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780262620017 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Image of the City by : Kevin Lynch
The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
Author |
: Alan Waterhouse |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 366 |
Release |
: 1994-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781442656161 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1442656166 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Boundaries of the City by : Alan Waterhouse
In this study Alan Waterhouse draws on anthropological, social and cultural history, literature, and philosophy to reach an understanding of the roots of Western architecture and city building. He explores the illusion that cities are constructed to impose rational order, an order articulated through urban boundaries. These boundaries, he finds, are shaped around our instinctive fears and insecurities about crime, insurrection, and the violent disruption of everyday life. At the same time, contrary instincts aspire to create a unified domain, to proclaim the interdependence of things through constructed work. Cities are shaped less by rational design than by a recurring dialectic of boundary formation. These impulses underlie the formal vocabulary of architecture and urbanism. Waterhouse follows them through the theories, ideologies, and styles that seem to govern city buildings; he finds their presence in the creation of territorial divisions, and also wherever the cityscape has been shaped by a poetic imagination. Tracing his narrative of urban boundaries from antiquity to the birth of modernism, Waterhouse discovers some stubborn legacies that bind contemporary urban design to the past. Part One explores the boundary dialectic in our regard for deities, for nature, and for one another, and then as a powerful influence on architectural invention and our ways of life. Part Two traces these themes through city building history, to show how architecture and human relatedness are subordinated by boundary formation in the cycles of urbanization. Electronic Format Disclaimer: Image 6.5 removed at the request of the rights holder.
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 572 |
Release |
: 1982 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015078833343 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis 1980 Census of Population by :
Author |
: John Meligrana |
Publisher |
: UBC Press |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0774809345 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780774809344 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Redrawing Local Government Boundaries by : John Meligrana
Local governments today are under extreme pressure to undertake boundary reform. The global trend toward urbanization has brought with it economic, environmental, social, and regional demands that have severe implications for local governments and their territories. As a result, changing the areal jurisdiction of this most basic level of government has become a persistent and pressing challenge around the globe. This collection examines the legal and regulatory procedures involved in such municipal restructuring. Case studies from eight nations - the United States, Canada, Spain, Germany, Israel, Korea, China, and South Africa - investigate how and why local governments have been enlarged in scope and reduced in number within each country. Four key aspects are examined: the geography of the local government boundary problem, the procedures associated with boundary reform, the roles of institutions and actors in boundary reform, and the implications for urban and regional governance. Redrawing Local Government Boundaries offers a broad theoretical understanding of local government boundary reform and informs the wider scholarly discussion about institutional change, state structures, and the areal jurisdiction of local governments. The first international comparative study of local boundary reform, it will be a valuable reference for scholars and students of political science, public administration, geography, urban studies, and urban planning.
Author |
: Michigan |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 1926 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015073439096 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Laws Relating to the Incorporation and General Powers of Cities by : Michigan
Author |
: Washington (State) |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 2062 |
Release |
: 1919 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951D02222501H |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (1H Downloads) |
Synopsis General statutes by : Washington (State)
Author |
: Wyoming |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 1614 |
Release |
: 1910 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:35112105420972 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wyoming Compiled Statutes, Annotated, 1910 by : Wyoming
Author |
: Texas |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1226 |
Release |
: 1898 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:35112204583019 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sayles' Annotated Civil Statutes of the State of Texas by : Texas