Based on her extensive experience in the urban communities of Los Angeles, historian and architect Dolores Hayden proposes new perspectives on gender, race, and ethnicity to broaden the practice of public history and public art, enlarge urban preservation, and reorient the writing of urban history to spatial struggles.In the first part of The Power of Place, Hayden outlines the...(展开全部)

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)

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)

"Theorizing the City has become fundamental reading for those students of urban society and culture who wish to better understand twentieth-century city forms and spaces, as well as why certain race, gender, age, and class inequalities continue to be manifested today." -- Alejandro Lugo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Using rich comparative material, this volume pr...(展开全部)

罗伯特·B·登哈特（Robert B. Denhardt）：现任美国亚利桑纳州立大学公共事务学院教授，美国国家公共行政研究院院士并且担任美国许多州政府和地方政府在质量管理、战略规划和公共生产率等方面的咨询顾问。作为国际著名的公共行政学家，登哈特博士曾经担任美国公共行政学（ASPA）会长、中佛罗里达大学公共行政系主任、密苏里—哥伦比亚大学副校长以及密苏里州长的生产率咨询委员会主席，他还是美国公共行政学会全国公共服务运动组织的创始人和第一任主席。登哈特博士著述甚丰，迄今为止，已经出版了16本专著，其中有代表性的著作包括：《新公共服务》，《公共组织理论》等。 https://priceschool.usc.edu/robert-denhardt/ 珍妮特·V·登哈特（Janet V. Denhardt）：现任美国亚利桑纳州立大学公共事务学院教授，她的教学和...(展开全部)