The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are crystallizing. In New Urban Spaces, Neil Brenner argues that understanding these mutations of urban life requires not only concrete research, but new theories of urbanization. To this end, Brenner proposes an a...(展开全部)

The New West is a reprint of the photography book, first issued in 1974, that was a formative influence on a whole generation of American photographers. In the book Robert Adams documents the changing landscape of the United States in the 60s and 70s.

Instilling a poetics of place is a goal of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA), the famous landscape design firm that has created successful public spaces in some of the country's most challenging urban sites. In these locations, nature offers not so much an escape from city living as a teasing dialogue with built structures. The whole experience is aimed, as critic Paul ...(展开全部)

[英国]尼尔•史密斯（Neil Smith，1954—2012），英国地理学家，1982年在美国约翰•霍普金斯大学获得博士学位，曾任纽约城市大学研究生院人类学和地理学特聘教授，美国新泽西州罗格斯大学担任地理学教授、当代文化批评中心代理主任。

Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic? Will the process continue in the twenty-first century or has it ended? What does this mean for the people who live there? Can they do anything about it? This book challenges conventional wisdom, which holds...(展开全部)

威廉•朱利叶斯•威尔逊（William Julius Wilson），美国著名社会学家，生于1935年，1966年获得华盛顿州立大学博士学位，1972年至1996年在芝加哥大学任教，后转入哈佛大学，于约翰•F•肯尼迪政府学院任教授，主要研究领域为民权、种族、贫困问题以及社会与城市政策。曾经担任美国社会学协会主席，获得过四十多个荣誉学位，包括耶鲁大学、普林斯顿大学、哥伦比亚大学等校的荣誉博士学位。他也是美国国家科学院院士。1996年，他被《时代》杂志评为美国最有影响力的二十五人之一。1998年获得了美国科学界的最高荣誉“国家科学勋章”。

Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson persuasively argues that problems endemic to America's inner cities--from fathe...(展开全部)

The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement is a groundbreaking project unveiling recent documentary film work that has transformed visual culture in China, and brought new immediacy along with a broader base of participation to Chinese media. As a foundational text, this volume provides a much-needed introduction to the topic of Chinese documentary film, the signature mode of co...(展开全部)