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Tensions in Diversity
Urban landscapes are complex spaces of sociocultural diversity, characterized by narratives of both conviviality and conflict. As people with multiple ethnicities and nationalities find their common destinies in thriving globalizing cities, social cohesiveness becomes more precarious as different beliefs, practices, ambitions, values, and affiliations intersect in close proximity, producing social tensions. Tensions in Diversity presents a multi-method comparative study that draws on the experiences of 140 residents of native and immigrant origin, community organizers, and municipal officers in three culturally diverse neighbourhoods of varying income levels in Los Angeles County. Using cognitive mapping analysis combined with data from interviews, surveys, and participant observation, this book explores how exactly coexistence is socio-spatially experienced and negotiated in daily life. Tensions in Diversity identifies the planning and design considerations that enable intercultural learning in the public places within diverse cities. In doing so, this book foregrounds urban space as an active force in shaping coexistence and convivial public environments.
Space and Pluralism
This book addresses the social, functional and symbolic dimensions of urban space in today?s world. The twelve essays are grouped in three parts, ranging from a conceptual framework to case descriptions rich with illustrations. They provide a valuable service in exploring the nature and significance of social space and particular aspects of its contemporary distribution and contestation. The book addresses a topic that is intrinsically interdisciplinary. Questions of space are examined from a rich variety of disciplinary perspectives in a welcome range from urban planning to political philosophy, shedding a good deal of light in the process. The issues in focus include the dichotomies of public and private space, discussion of rights and duties with regard to the use of space, or conflicts over its allocation. Well reasoned and presented discussion is offered from the perspective of basic values and rights. The policy issue of institutional recognition of the specifics of (minority community) identity is raised in opposition to abstract distributive accounts of justice.
Transcultural Cities
Transcultural Cities collects case studies of intercultural exchange and the urban transformations that have accompanied it. Jeffrey Hou and a talented team of multidisciplinary scholars argue for a more critical and open view of cities, urban places, and placemaking as vehicles for cross-cultural understanding.
Companion to Urban Design
Today the practice of urban design has forged a distinctive identity with applications at many different scales – ranging from the block or street scale to the scale of metropolitan and regional landscapes. Urban design interfaces many aspects of contemporary public policy – multiculturalism, healthy cities, environmental justice, economic development, climate change, energy conservations, protection of natural environments, sustainable development, community liveability, and the like. The field now comprises a core body of knowledge that enfolds a right history of ideas, paradigms, principles, tools, research and applications, enriched by electric influences from the humanities, and soc...
In the Images of Development
The urban legacy of the Global South since the colonial era and how sustainable development and environmental and social justice can be achieved. Remarkably little of the expansive literature on development and globalization considers actual urban form and the physical design of cities as outcomes of these phenomena. The development that has shaped historic transformations in urban form and urbanism—and the consequent human experiences—remains largely unexplored. In this book, Tridib Banerjee fills this void by linking the idea of development with those of urbanism, urban form, and urban design, focusing primarily on the contemporary cities in the developing world—the Global South—an...
Sharing by Design
This book answers the question of how to design a sharing system that can promote sustained, meaningful, and socially constructive sharing practices in today’s cities. To do so, it constructs a framework for practical inquiry into the design of sharing systems. Further, the book invites readers to consider questions such as: If sharing can be designed, then how does one design a sharing system for cities? Which urban conditions make this sharing system possible? What are the considerations, variables, and methods that can inform and guide the designers of a sharing system? By considering both the environmental and societal motivations for sharing, and the reality that most examples of the ...
Space and Pluralism
This book addresses the social, functional and symbolic dimensions of urban space in today's world. The twelve essays are grouped in three parts, ranging from a conceptual framework to case descriptions rich with illustrations. They provide a valuable service in exploring the nature and significance of social space and particular aspects of its contemporary distribution and contestation. The book addresses a topic that is intrinsically interdisciplinary. Questions of space are examined from a rich variety of disciplinary perspectives in a welcome range from urban planning to political philosophy, shedding a good deal of light in the process. The issues in focus include the dichotomies of public and private space, discussion of rights and duties with regard to the use of space, or conflicts over its allocation. Well reasoned and presented discussion is offered from the perspective of basic values and rights. The policy issue of institutional recognition of the specifics of (minority community) identity is raised in opposition to abstract distributive accounts of justice.
國際關係理論入門
國際關係既是一個古老的現象，又是一門與時俱進的學科。它的內容牽涉廣泛，它的發展瞬息萬變。它看似與常人的生活距離遙遠，卻又與地球上每一個人的切身利益息息相關。如何對領域這麼廣闊卻又關係重大的議題提供嚴謹、有系統，且兼顧政策遠見的理解和說明，始終是人類知識的一大挑戰。古往今來，有識者雄辯滔滔，構成了仁智互見的國關理論各大學派。它們相互激盪、相互爭論，不僅開拓了人類的知識視野，也使政治家和社會大眾面對事關「存亡」的「國之大事」，有了更明智可靠的依據。本書邀集臺灣優秀年輕學者，兼顧理論傳統、新銳議題和在地關懷，簡明並批判性地介紹了學科最新的發展趨勢，是深入掌握理論精華的入門書，也是理解世局的新指南。
國際關係理論入門
國際關係既是一個古老的現象，又是一門與時俱進的學科。它的內容牽涉廣泛，它的發展瞬息萬變。它看似與常人的生活距離遙遠，卻又與地球上每一個人的切身利益息息相關。如何對領域這麼廣闊卻又關係重大的議題提供嚴謹、有系統，且兼顧政策遠見的理解和說明，始終是人類知識的一大挑戰。古往今來，有識者雄辯滔滔，構成了仁智互見的國關理論各大學派。它們相互激盪、相互爭論，不僅開拓了人類的知識視野，也使政治家和社會大眾面對事關「存亡」的「國之大事」，有了更明智可靠的依據。本書邀集臺灣優秀年輕學者，兼顧理論傳統、新銳議題和在地關懷，簡明並批判性地介紹了學科最新的發展趨勢，是深入掌握理論精華的入門書，也是理解世局的新指南。
Transcultural Cities
Transcultural Cities uses a framework of transcultural placemaking, cross-disciplinary inquiry and transnational focus to examine a collection of case studies around the world, presented by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and activists in architecture, urban planning, urban studies, art, environmental psychology, geography, political science, and social work. The book addresses the intercultural exchanges as well as the cultural trans-formation that takes place in urban spaces. In doing so, it views cultures not in isolation from each other in today’s diverse urban environments, but as mutually influenced, constituted and transformed. In cities and regions around the globe, migration...
