The geography, politics, and architecture of cities: studies in the creation and complexification of culture / ed. by M.A.McAdams, J.T.Cantú, I.Vassoler-Froelich; with a foreword by K.E.Soltan. - Lewisto: Edwin Mellen Press, 2012. - xii, 314 p.: ill., maps. - Incl. bibl. ref. - Ind.: p.305-309. - ISBN-10 0-7734-2616-7; ISBN-13 978-0-7734-2616-0  Место хранения:   048 | Байкальский институт природопользования CO РАН | Улан-Удэ

Оглавление / Contents

Foreword: Karol Edward Solta .................................. iii Acknowledgments ............................................... vii Introduction ................................................... ix Part I: Urban Planning Theory and Practice 1 Complexity Theory and Urban Planning ......................... 1 Michael A. McAdams 2 Plans and Why They Fail ..................................... 31 Jesus Treviño Cantú 3 A Catalyst for Change: The Role of City Organizations in the Process of Urban Reform .............................. 63 Ivani Vassoler-Froelich 4 Application of the Urban Realms Model to Istanbul .......... 101 Mehmet Karakuyu Part II: Urban Spaces: Physical and Imaginary Borders 5 "Walls" As Political Metaphors ............................. 119 Vassil Anastassov 6 Soft Social Infrastructure - An Instrument of Survival of Poor Populations in Urban Areas: A Case Study of the Roma in Bulgaria ........................................... 135 Alexi Danchev 7 Culture in the Digital Metropolis: Theoretical and Methodological Crossroads .................................. 153 Sheenagh Pietrobruno Part III: Urban Development in the Global Periphery 8 Political and Environmental Challenges of Border Communities: The Case of Colonias in South Texas ........... 181 Nirmal Goswami and Joseph Jozwiak 9 The Urban Structure of El Centro in Border Cities: A Case Study of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico ................ 213 Michael A. McAdams 10 A Mexican Border City in the Global Periphery: Piedras Negras and the Steel Manufacturing, 1935-1990 .............. 231 Michaels Yoder Part IV: Viewing the City Beyond the Built Infrastructure 11 Barcelona 2004: A "Redeemed Flâneur's" Report .............. 245 Jesus Treviño Cantú 12 Worldliness in Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul Memories of a City ... 273 Verena Laschinger 13 Americans in Paris, Paris in Americans: Symbolic Geography in the Novels of Henry James ..................... 289 Joshua Parker Epilogue ...................................................... 301 Index ......................................................... 305 Contributors .................................................. 311