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• Introduction: Gold Coast slave forts and castles as frontiers of Euro-African economic and cultural encounter, c. 1482-1960
• The long shadow of the enslaved: from Africa into the diaspora
• Portuguese global trade: slave forts, castles and dungeons on the Gold Coast and the Atlantic slave trade
• The Dutch global enterprise and the Atlantic slave trade: slave fort and castle construction
• English hegemony, the slave forts, castles and dungeons and the Atlantic slave trade
• The Danes on the eastern seaboard of the Gold Coast: the "Baltic-African complex" and the Atlantic slave trade
• The Brandenburgers and the Atlantic slave trade: following the Dutch example in the Guinea trade
• Conclusion: From "gates of no return" to "gates of return": PANAFEST, emancipation commemoration and the slave forts, castles and dungeons in Ghana.

• Introduction
• Cadrage sur les mobilités
• Les PIGS (People Information Goods Spaces)
• La mobilité en trois dimensions pour un positionnement des PIGS
• Le nomade apprivoisé
• L'adhérence temporaire est fonction de la situation
• Individus AOMC (Appellation d'Origine Mobile Contrôlée) Agents bio-politiques
• Territoires vitaux et fluides
• "I'm at home hotel Buenos Aires..."
• Tactiques de recentrement
• Mise en scène des espaces à la demande
• Environnements génétiquement modifiés (EGM)
• Formes adaptées et conception sensible
• Espaces flous et conception mémorielle
• Espaces aliénants et design relationnel
• Quand le néo-nomadisme permet la réalisation de villes durables
• Rien n'est plus contraignant que la mobilité
• Mobilités et conception durable : quelques notions
• Les apports de la condition néo-nomade
• Conclusion.

"La mobilité d'aujourd'hui se conjugue au pluriel. À la fois physique, numérique et mentale, elle induit une condition nouvelle, une forme de nomadisme parfois imposé, souvent voulu, parfois jusqu'au-boutiste, pas toujours bien vécu. Ce néo-nomadisme donne naissance à des modes de vie autrefois atypiques qui, désormais, se généralisent. Il apporte aussi un état d'esprit générant transgressions et situations inédites, qui nous amènent à nous interroger sur ses conséquences profondes. Quels sont les nouveaux liens qui se tissent entre les personnes, les objets, les données et les lieux ? Quel est l'impact de ces mutations sur l'identité des individus, autant connectés qu'isolés, sur les territoires et les espaces ? Dans un contexte néo-nomade, les technologies de l'information sont-elles libératrices ou aliénantes ? Que deviennent le rôle de l'urbaniste et celui de l'architecte, confrontés à une instabilité qui oblige à redéfinir les contours de la ville et son accessibilité ? Comment ces transformations peuvent-elles s'inscrire dans une dynamique de durabilité, au plan environnemental, économique et social ? Cet essai critique porte un regard sans concession sur les transformations issues de ces nouvelles mobilités, et fournit les clés pour en comprendre les risques et mieux les appréhender."--P. [4] of cover.

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Streets and Buildings
• Chapter 2: The Suburban Solution
• Chapter 3: Experts and Citizens
• Chapter 4: Saving the Center
• Chapter 5: Metropolis and Megaregion
• Chapter 6: Nature in the City
• Chapter 7: Unnatural Disasters and Resilient Cities Epilogue: Imagining Future Cities List of Illustrations References Further Reading.
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City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and-sometimes utopian-aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments calls on the same range of disciplines and approaches that we use for understanding cities themselves, from art and literature through the social and natural sciences. Surrounding the core profession of city planning, also known as urban or town planning, are related fields of architecture, landscape design, engineering, geography, political science and policy, sociology, and social work. In addition, the legions of community and environmental activists influence debates and controversies within the field. This Very Short Introduction is organized around eight key aspects of city planning: street layout; congestion and decentralization; the response to suburbanization; the conservation and regeneration of older districts; cities as natural systems; cities and regions; social class and ethnicity; and disasters and resilience. The underlying assumption throughout is that decisions that we make today about cities and metropolitan regions are best understood as the continuation of past efforts to solve fundamental problems that have shifted and evolved over multiple generations. At its best, city planning utilizes technical tools to achieve goals set by community action and political debate. Carl Abbott's addition to Oxford's long-running Very Short Introduction series is a brief but concentrated look at past decisions about the management of urban growth and their effects on the creation of the twenty-first century city.
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City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and - sometimes utopian - aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments calls on the same range of disciplines and approaches that we use for understanding cities themselves, from art and literature through the social and natural sciences. Surrounding the core profession of city planning, also known as urban or town planning, are related fields of architecture, landscape design, engineering, geography, political science and policy, sociology, and social work. Carl Abbott presents a brief but concentrated look at past decisions about the management of urban growth and their effects on the creation of the 21st century city

• Introduction: All roads lead to Fresno
• Outposts of empires
• Building a West of cities, 1840-1940
• Across the wide Mississippi
• The first Pacific century
• Inland empire cities
• Garden cities
• Smokestack frontiers
• Money in the air
• Cities of homes
• Water, power, progress
• The metropolitan West since 1940
• Wars and rumors of war
• Progress and prejudice
• The politics of diversity
• Reshaping the metropolis
• Transnational urbanism
• The long arm of the metropolitan West
• Conclusion: Urban frontiers.

Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development of the western half of North America. Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, western urban centers served as starting points for conquest and settlement. As these frontier cities matured into metropolitan centers, they grew from imitators of eastern culture and outposts of eastern capital into independent sources of economic, cultural, and intellectual change.From the Gulf of Alaska to the Mississippi River and from the bi national metropolis of San Diego-Tijuana to the Prairie Province capitals of Canada, Carl Abbott explores the complex urban history of western Canada and the United States. The evolution of western cities from stations for exploration and military occupation to contemporary entry points for migration and components of a global economy reminds us that it is cities that 'won the West'. And today, as cultural change increasingly moves from west to east, Abbott argues that the urban West represents a new center from which emerging patterns of behavior and changing customs will help to shape North America in the twenty-first century.
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It sometimes seems as if suburbs are taking over the world. For the last two centuries, most urban growth has been on the edges. This book surveys not only the 'Brady Bunch suburbs' of the United States but also improvised communities on the edges of Latin American cities and the high-rise suburbs of Eastern Europe and East Asia. Some suburbs have been carefully planned to the last detail by master architects while others are the result of thousands of individual decisions by households and builders. Together they have built the places that billions of people call home

"This book explores two centuries of suburban growth as integral to global urbanism. It argues that the future of an urbanizing world will be a suburban world and presents suburbs as places that are interesting and viable on their own terms rather than simply poor cousins of big cities. Examples come from every peopled continent, offering glimpses of suburbs from London to Lima, Sao Paolo to Singapore, Cairo to Chicago, and Dublin to Delhi. The approach is both historical and thematic. The book first traces the history of suburban development in England and North America to 1940 and then examines three different trajectories of suburbanization in more recent decades. The United States and other nations drawing on British planning traditions have built low density suburbia characterized by owner-occupied housing, dependence on automobiles, planned new towns, and a legacy of racial residential segregations. High-rise housing built by national governments dominated suburban rings in Eastern Europe and parts of Western Europe and East Asia. Where neither government nor private market has been able to meet demand, residents have acted themselves to create informal communities with self-built housing on cheap peripheral land, sometimes misleadingly called shantytowns. After this world tour, a chapter explores suburban rings as places of work, from early dispersed manufacturing and industrial suburbs to research and development suburbs in developed economies about the world. Another thematic chapter examines the negative and even dystopian reputation of suburbs and sprawl in literature, popular media, and science fiction"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction : All roads lead to Fresno
• Outposts of empires
• Transitions : Building a West of cities, 1840-1940
• Across the wide Mississippi
• The first Pacific century
• Inland empire cities
• Garden cities
• Smokestack frontiers
• Money in the air
• Cities of homes
• Water, power, progress
• Transitions: The metropolitan West since 1940
• Wars and rumors of war
• Progress and prejudice
• The politics of diversity
• Reshaping the metropolis
• Transnational urbanism
• The long arm of the metropolitan West
• Conclusion: Urban frontiers.

Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development of the western half of North America. Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, western urban centers served as starting points for conquest and settlement. As these frontier cities matured into metropolitan centers, they grew from imitators of eastern culture and outposts of eastern capital into independent sources of economic, cultural, and intellectual change.From the Gulf of Alaska to the Mississippi River and from the bi national metropolis of San Diego-Tijuana to the Prairie Province capitals of Canada, Carl Abbott explores the complex urban history of western Canada and the United States. The evolution of western cities from stations for exploration and military occupation to contemporary entry points for migration and components of a global economy reminds us that it is cities that 'won the West'. And today, as cultural change increasingly moves from west to east, Abbott argues that the urban West represents a new center from which emerging patterns of behavior and changing customs will help to shape North America in the twenty-first century.
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• Introduction: The Metropolitan Era
• The First Modern Cities
• Building and Rebuilding
• A New Urban America
• Prosperity and Poverty
• The Promise of Urban Life.
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Since the appearance of "Urban America in the Modern Age" in 1987, the study of American cities has flourished. In this long-awaited second edition, Carl Abbott draws on the recent works of historians who have explored issues of urban growth, municipal politics, immigration and ethnicity, "suburbanization", and environmental change. The fascination with growth and change in the nation's metropolitan areas spans a wide range of scholarly fields, and the new edition also benefits from scholarship in disciplines closely related to urban history, including geography, political science, sociology, and urban planning. Featuring an entirely new chapter covering the years since 1980 and a bank of interesting photographs, the second edition of "Urban America in the Modern Age" further explores and fine-tunes the themes and topics central to its predecessor - the physical form of metropolitan areas, their sources of growth and mix of ethnic and racial groups, the shaping of and responses to public policy, and ideas of community planning.
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• 1. The Failure of Western Intervention in Africa
• 2. The Evolution of Urban Development in Africa
• 3. How Modern Urban Infrastructure Evolved
• 4. Transferring the British Infrastructure Model to Africa
• 5. Decentralisation and Urban Infrastructure
• 6. Urbanization in Ethiopia
• 7. From Engineering to Infrastructure: Changing the Urban Paradigm
• 8. Rethinking Urban Development in Africa
• 9. A Green Infrastructure Model for Africa
• 10. Green Urban Infrastructure in Practice: Mediating Resource Flows
• 11. Green Infrastructure and Urban Governance
• 12. Building African Cities for a Sustainable Future.
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This book shows for the first time how green infrastructure can work in an African urban context. On one level it provides a major rethinking of the role of infrastructure in urban society since the creation of networked infrastructure in the early twentieth century. On another, it explores the changing paradigms of urban development through the fundamental question of how decisions are made. With a focus on Africa's fast-growing secondary towns, where 70 per cent of the urban population live, the book explains how urban infrastructure provides the key to the relationship between economic development and social equity, through the mediation of natural resources. Adopting this view enables investment to be channelled more effectively to provide the engine for economic growth, while providing equitable services for all residents. At the same time, the mediation of resource flows integrates the metabolism of the city into the wider ecosystem. This vision leads to a new way of thinking about infrastructure, giving clear definition to the concept of green infrastructure. On the basis of research gathered throughout an extensive career, John Abbott draws in particular from his experience in Ethiopia to demonstrate the ways in which infrastructure needs to respond to the economies, societies and natural environments of twenty-first century urban Africa.
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