The Death and Life of Great American Cities Top 20 Urban Planning Books (Of all time) The Planetizen 20 features the all-time top 20 planning titles that every planner should read. Planetizen's annual lists features the top 10 popular titles published during each preceeding year. Planetizen has partnered with Amazon.com to enable you to purchase any title by selecting the linked title of the book. Also, be sure to check out our Store for the latest books in urban planning, design and development. Top 20 All-Time Urban Planning Titles Top 20 all-time urban planning books that every urban planner should read. The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs (1961) A classic since its publication in 1961, this book is the defintive statement on American cities: what makes them safe, how they function, and why all too many official attempts at saving them have failed. Buy this book The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects by Lewis Mumford (1972) Buy this book The Practice of Local Government Planning (Municipal Management Series)
Net 03/20/2014 1. Sustainable University Day Today, Sustainable Development is a major challenge - wether it is a matter of climate change, limited resources or social injustice. The Congress takes place at the University of Bern, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, Bern from 09.00 - 17.00. Please find more information on the programme's website: www.sd-universities.ch/congress The «Conférence Suisse Inter- et Transdisciplinarité ITD 14» is in preparation: Repenser les méthodes de recherche ? «call for contribution» CfP The CALL adresses primarily inter- and transdisciplinary lecturers and researchers in Switzerland. Agenda 21.02.2014 CfP 23.04.2014 deadline for contributions 14.05.2014 notice about acceptance Information about the winning projects... press release in german and french (pdf) Bibliography: We have requested experts of inter- and transdisciplinary research to indicate to us important new literature in the field of inter- and transdisciplinary research, teaching and practice published in 2012.
thinkpublic BLDGBLOG Eurodoc news « thinkpublic Looking for thinkpublic? We’re taking a pause, as our founding director Deborah is going on maternity leave from September 2012. We’ve learnt from many of our projects with new mums and children’s services, that starting a family can be like starting a business, extremely consuming in both time and energy. Which is why we are finishing off our current projects and pausing the work of the studio, we see this time as a chance to focus on a few initiatives, whilst feeding our imaginations. “I started thinkpublic when I was 23 and I had no idea what an impact it would create. thinkpublic has grown from strength to strength, I have been lucky to work with some amazing people on a diverse and exciting range of projects. Yet now is the time to do something different for a bit, the ultimate ‘social’ thing of starting a family! We’ve had an amazing time over the last 9 years leading and shaping the movement of social design and innovation in the UK and beyond. And we know there is more to do.
Emergent Urbanism, or ‘bottom-up planning’ I was asked to write an article around ‘bottom-up planning’ by Architectural Review Australia a while ago. It was published in the last issue, and I’m re-posting here. ‘Bottom-up’ is hardly the most elegant phrase, but I suspect you know what I mean. Either way, I re-cast it in the article as ‘emergent urbanism’ which captured a little more of the non-planning approaches I was interested in (note also the blog of same name, which I didn’t know about beforehand). It partly concerns increased transparency over the urban planning process but also, and perhaps more interestingly, how citizens might be able to proactively engage in the creation of their cities. And for those of you outside Australia, there are a few subtitles required to read this. And regarding this broad idea of emergent urbanism, a particularly inspirational recent project over this way has been ‘Renew Newcastle’ (Newcastle, New South Wales that is) initiated by Marcus Westbury. Yimby = Yes In My Backyard
Urban Portal | The University of Chicago Urban Network Us Now Us Now is a documentary film project "about the power of mass collaboration, the government and the Internet"[1] The New York Times describes it as a film which "paints a future in which every citizen is connected to the state as easily as to Facebook, choosing policies, questioning politicians, collaborating with neighbours."[2] The documentary weaves together the perceptions of leading thinkers on the power of the web, with the overriding suggestion that people gain a sense of satisfaction from active participation rather than symbolic representation in decision-making processes.[3] (Rebecca Frankel, editor of Channel 4's FourDocs) Synopsis[edit] The Us Now website describes the project as an examination of the role of the internet, and more specifically Web 2.0 in facilitating direct public governance without the need for politicians. Release and distribution[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] Jump up ^ "Us Now website". External links[edit]
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