Urban Futures Critical Commentaries on Shaping Cities 1st Edition by Malcolm Miles, Tim Hall 0415266939 9780415266932

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ISBN 10: 0415266939 

ISBN 13: 9780415266932

Author: Tim Hall, Malcolm Miles

Urban Futures brings together commentaries from a wide range of contemporary disciplines and fields relevant to urban culture, form and society. The book concerns cities in the broadest sense, not just as buildings and spaces, but also as processes and events or sites of occupation, in which meanings are constructed in many ways. The contributors draw on their specialist areas of research to inform current debate, but they also speculate as to how cities will be shaped in the 21st century. Specific areas of research include homeless people’s organisations and restoration ecology in brownfield sites in the USA, post-industrial urban landscapes, post-industrial economics, tourism and cultural planning. The book allows each writer to state their own conclusions, but together they suggest that tomorrow’s cities will, while remaining locations of difference and contestation, be rapidly evolving systems in which dwellers assume increasing responsibilities and power.

Table of contents:

Part I Framing
Introduction
1 Where the Thinking Stops, Time Crystallises…
I The Angel of History
II Lustre
III Gold Sheen
IV Blue Lustre
V Blurred Focus
II (Lustre Again): The Act of Self-Absorption
VI Two Keys: Positions of Entry
VII Between Real and Imagined
VIII Between Dream and Awakening
IX Between Fragment and Gesture
VI (Two Keys Again) When Two Keys Fit The Lock
X Tailor’s Chalk
XI An Ongoing Memory
XII Present as Palimpsest
XIII Still Life
X (Tailor’s Chalk Again) Over Writing
I (The Angel of History Again) Where The Thinking Stops, Time Crystallises…

2 Differencing the City: Urban Identities and the Spatial Imagination
Further Reading
Notes

3 Strange Days
Introduction
Context: Strange Times
The Disaster Scenario
The Disaster Scene: Los Angeles
Other Voices, Other Stories
Planning for Difference
Conclusion
Coda: Strange Days Have Found US

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Part II Moving
Introduction

4 Resistance or Security? Young People and the ‘Appropriation’ of Urban, Cultural and Consumer Space
Rebellious Youth?
Youth Subcultures
Young People, Risk and Consumption
Young People and Sites of Consumption
Conclusions
Suggestions for Further Reading

5 Prestige Projects, City Centre Restructuring and Social Exclusion: Taking the Long-Term View
Introduction: Inter-Urban Competition and Prestige Projects
A Review: Birmingham’s City Centre Focused Pro-Growth Policies 1984–2000
The Dick Knowles era: genesis of the pro-growth agenda
The Stewart years: ‘Back to Basics’
Albert Bore: return of the pro-growth agenda
Birmingham’s City Centre Focused Pro-Growth Policies: 2002
‘Westside’: The Convention Centre Quarter
Eastside Regeneration Initiative
City Centre Living
Birmingham’s City Centre Focused Strategy: Social Equity Impact
Acknowledgement
Notes

6 Car-ceral Cities: Social Geographies of Everyday Urban Mobility
Introduction: Social Geography and Urban Mobility
Mobility and Urban Form
The Impacts of Automobility
Environmental impacts
Economic impacts
Health impacts and road safety
Social impacts
Responses–Travel-Reduction Strategies
Substitution mechanisms
Switching mechanisms
Conclusions

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Part III Practising
Introduction

7 What is Radical Architecture?
Politics and Architecture
What is Radical Architecture?
Materiality and tectonics
Form and its experience
Social relations and culture
Relations of production
Discourse
The concept of architecture
Notes

8 Public Art: A Renewable Resource

9 Landscape, Ecology, Art and Change
Introduction
Applied Ecologies
Preservation, conservation, and restoration ecology
Restoration Ecology–Concepts and Practices
Cultural Ecologies
Background, art and landscape
Earth-art
Ecosystem approaches
Art and Radical Ecology
Theory and interdiscipline
Dualities
The philosophies
Eco-art and paradigmatic change
Conclusion
Recommended Texts

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Part IV Shaping
Introduction

10 Gentrification and Social Exclusion: Spatial Policing and Homeless Activist Responses in the San Francisco Bay Area
Introduction
The Political Economic Context of Homeless Activism
Criminalising The Homeless and Punitive Policing Strategies
Advocate/Activist Perceptions of Strategies, Tactics And Effective Organising
Internal fragmentation
External fragmentation
Developing Regional Activist Networks
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes

11 Shaping the Cultural Landscape: Local Regeneration Effects
Introduction
Cultural Landscapes
Intermediaries
Shaping Stepney’s Cultural Landscape
Stepney’s Hidden Cultural Landscape
Local Cultural Flagships
Conclusion
Note

12 Turbulent Prospects: Sustaining Urbanism on a Dynamic Planet
Unruly Cities
Urban Sustainability
Encountering Turbulence
Heavy Weather
Wild Life
Shaky Ground
Future Prospects
Further Reading
Conclusion

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