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Power in stone : cities as symbols of empire
From ancient Persia to the Third Reich, imperial powers have built cities in their image, seeking to reflect their power and influence through a show of magnificence and a reflection of their values. Statues, pictures, temples, palaces --all combine to produce the necessary justification for the wielding of power while intimidating opponents. In this work, Geoffrey Parker traces the very nature of power through history by exploring the structural symbolism of these cities. Traveling from Persepolis to Constantinople, Saint Petersburg to Beijing and Delhi, Parker considers how these structures and monuments were brought together to make the most powerful statement and how that power was wielded to the greatest advantage. A fascinating history of some of the world's most intriguing cities, past and present.
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The Study of Regulation on Settlement Development in Medan Belawan District
The problem of settlements that occur in big cities is a problem that makes local governments confuse, not least in Medan. In the program from the Ministry of Pekerjaan Umum dan Permukiman Rakyat (PUPR) that Medan is one of thirty cities with the most slum areas. This research problem are the fact of slums, factors that influence the growth of settlements, the regulation of coastal settlement development, the implementation of settlement development regulations and appropriate regulatory context for settlement construction in Medan Belawan district. This research aims to map the slums, analyze the factors that affect the growth of settlements, examine regulation of settlement development, analyze application of regulations on coastal settlement and make appropriate regulatory context for settlement construction in Medan Belawan District. Researchers distributed questionnaires and field observations to collect data. The findings of this research were to find out the factor of slums and to appropriate regulatory context for settlement construction in Medan Belawan District. This research can help local governments to pay attention and to reorganize the developments located in Medan Belawan District. This research is expected to provide benefits to all local governments to pay attention and resolve the causes of slums in their area.
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Urban bridgescape Space Construction Strategy
The strategy of urban bridgescape space construction, starting from two levels, the first layer is to divide urban bridgelscape space construction into three strategies: aesthetic strategy, environmental strategy and economic strategy; the second layer is to sum up and extract six strategies from aesthetic, environmental and economic strategies that have universal guiding significance for urban bridgescape space construction.
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Cities and immigration : political and moral dilemmas in the new era of migration
All over the world immigration is one of the most urgent political issues, creating tensions and unrest as well as questions of justice and fairness. Academics as well as politicians have been relating to the question of how states should cope with immigrants; but 96% of immigrants end up in cities, and in Europe and the USA, two thirds of the immigrants settle in seven or eight cities. Indeed, most of us encounter with immigrants as city-zens, in our everyday life, rather than as citizens of states. So how should cities integrate immigrants? Should cities be allowed to design their autonomous integration policies? Could they issue visas and permits to immigrants? Should immigrants be granted voting rights in local elections before naturalization? And how do cities think about these issues? What can we learn from cities which are thought to be successful in integrating and assimilating immigrants? Is there a model of integration within the city which is best? The book discusses these questions both empirically and normatively. The book is based on hundreds of in depth discussions of these matters with city dwellers in San Francisco, New York, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Thessaloniki and Jerusalem. It shifts the discourse on immigration from 'thinking like a state' to 'thinking like a city'.
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horse in the city
Honorable mention, 2007 Lewis Mumford Prize, American Society of City and Regional Planning
The nineteenth century was the golden age of the horse. In urban America, the indispensable horse provided the power for not only vehicles that moved freight, transported passengers, and fought fires but also equipment in breweries, mills, foundries, and machine shops.
Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr, prominent scholars of American urban life, here explore the critical role that the horse played in the growing nineteenth-century metropolis. Using such diverse sources as veterinary manuals, stable periodicals, teamster magazines, city newspapers, and agricultural yearbooks, they examine how the horses were housed and fed and how workers bred, trained, marketed, and employed their four-legged assets. Not omitting the problems of waste removal and corpse disposal, they touch on the municipal challenges of maintaining a safe and productive living environment for both horses and people and the rise of organizations like the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
In addition to providing an insightful account of life and work in nineteenth-century urban America, The Horse in the City brings us to a richer understanding of how the animal fared in this unnatural and presumably uncomfortable setting.
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Architectural and Urban Planning Features of Ecotopia
This article has been devoted to the analysis of the description of architecture in the works of utopian philosophers, and the identification of the main means by which they tried to ensure the environmental friendliness of their society and connection with nature. Utopian ideas and concepts arise as a result of dissatisfaction with the standard of living and contribute to the active development of society. The models of states described in utopian works serve as a source of ideas for possible scenarios for improving current systems. Ecotopies are a specific type of utopias which describe states with a clear and exclusively ecologically-oriented social order. This article presents an analysis of architectural and engineering means of communication with nature in the works by Plato, T. More, T. Campanella, Cyrano de Bergerac, D. Vairasse and V. Odoyevsky. The work of E. Callenbach, as the first example of ecotopia, is analyzed in detail, and the peculiarities of the architecture and urban structure of the cities of Ecotopia are highlighted.
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Toward the construction of a comfort model for urban environment
The concept of \"comfortable urban environment\" is considered in the article, and its components are selected taking into account the principles of harmonious human development in symbiosis with the natural environment, based on the obtained results, a conceptual model of urban environment comfort is constructed and its formal description is given.
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