Harvey, David (2012). Rebel Cities. From the right to the city to the urban revolution.

London: Verbo.

The Just City

 

Fainstein, Susan (2010). The Just City. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

«For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of neoliberalism has caused the allocation of spatial, political, economic, and financial resources to favor economic growth at the expense of wider social benefits. Susan Fainstein's concept of the "just city" encourages planners and policymakers to embrace a different approach to urban development. Her objective is to combine progressive city planners' earlier focus on equity and material well-being with considerations of diversity and participation so as to foster a better quality of urban life within the context of a global capitalist political economy. Fainstein applies theoretical concepts about justice developed by contemporary philosophers to the concrete problems faced by urban planners and policymakers and argues that, despite structural obstacles, meaningful reform can be achieved at the local level. In the first half of The Just City, Fainstein draws on the work of John Rawls, Martha Nussbaum, Iris Marion Young, Nancy Fraser, and others to develop an approach to justice relevant to twenty-first-century cities, one that incorporates three central concepts: diversity, democracy, and equity. In the book's second half, Fainstein tests her ideas through case studies of New York, London, and Amsterdam by evaluating their postwar programs for housing and development in relation to the three norms. She concludes by identifying a set of specific criteria for urban planners and policymakers to consider when developing programs to assure greater justice in both the process of their formulation and their effects.» (source: publisher)

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Carlos Nunes Silva (2012). recensão / book review

In International Journal of E-Planning Research, Vol. 1 (2): 88-91.

Seeking Spatial Justice

 

Soja, Edward W. (2010). Seeking Spatial Justice.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

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Carlos Nunes Silva (2012). recensão / book review
In International Journal of E-Planning Research, Vol. 1 (2): 88-91.

The right to the city

 

 

Mitchell, Don (2003). The right to the city. Social justice and the fight for public space.

New York: The Guilford Press.

Ethics for practicing planners

 

 

Barrett, Carol (2001). Everyday ethics for practicing planners.

Washington: Institute of Certified Planners

Ethical land use. Principles of policy and planning

 

Beatley, Timothy (1994). Ethical land use. Principles of policy and planning.

Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press

Land Ethic

 

Craig W. Allin (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Global Resources. 4 volumes.

Pasadena (CA): Salem Press

Ethics, Legitimacy and the Validation of Knowledge

 

Thomas, H.; Healey, P. (Eds.) (1991). Dillemmas of Planning Practice.

Ethics, Legitimacy and the Validation of Knowledge. Aldershot: Avebury

Ethics and the Built Environment

 

 

Warwick Fix (ed.) (2000). Ethics and the Built Environment. London: Routledge

 

 

«Much has been written in recent years on environmental ethics relating to the more general 'natural' environment but little specifically written about ethics of the built environment. Ethics and the Built Environment responds to this need and offers a debate on the ethical dimension of building in all its forms from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and approaches.»

RACHEL CARSON

Carson, Rachel (1962). Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

ALDO LEOPOLD

Leopold, Aldo (1989). A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There.

Oxford: Oxford University Press.

NEW URBANISM - Duany, Andres & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk & Jeff Speck

Duany, Andres; Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk & Jeff Speck (2001). Suburban Nation.

The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream.

New York: North Point Press/Macmillan.

New Urbanism and American Planning: the conflict of cultures

 

 

Talen, Emily (2005). New Urbanism and American Planning:

the conflict of cultures. London: Routledge.

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Carlos Nunes Silva (2007). Book review
In Urban Affairs Review, vol. 42 (5): 759-762.

Planning the Good Community. New Urbanism in Theory and Practice

 

 

Jill Grant (2006). Planning the Good Community. New Urbanism in Theory and Practice.

London:Routledge, 256 p.

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Carlos Nunes Silva (2007). recensão / book review
In European Planning Studies, vol. 15 (9): 1291-1293.

 

 

Planning for multicultural cities

 

Sandercock, Leonie (1998). Towards Cosmopolis. Planning for multicultural cities. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.

CIAM Discourse on Urbanism

 

Mumford, Eric (2000). The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960.

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

 

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«CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne), founded in Switzerland in 1928, was an avant-garde association of architects intended to advance both modernism and internationalism in architecture. CIAM saw itself as an elite group revolutionizing architecture to serve the interests of society. Its members included some of the best-known architects of the twentieth century, such as Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Richard Neutra, but also hundreds of others who looked to it for doctrines on how to shape the urban environment in a rapidly changing world.

In this first book-length history of the organization, architectural historian Eric Mumford focuses on CIAM's discourse to trace the development and promotion of its influential concept of the "Functional City." He views official doctrines and pronouncements in relation to the changing circumstances of the members, revealing how CIAM in the 1930s began to resemble a kind of syndicalist party oriented toward winning over any suitable authority, regardless of political orientation. Mumford also looks at CIAM's efforts after World War II to find a new basis for a socially engaged architecture and describes the attempts by the group of younger members called Team 10 to radically revise CIAM's mission in the 1950s, efforts that led to the organization's dissolution in 1959.» (MIT Press webpage)

 



Building Suburbia. Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000

 

Hayden, Dolores (2004). Building Suburbia. Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000.

New York:Vintage Books.

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Carlos Nunes Silva (2006). recensão / book review
In H-NET Book Review), July 13, 2006

Spaces of Global Cultures. Architecture, Urbanism

 

King, Anthony D. (2004). Spaces of Global Cultures. Architecture, Urbanism, Identity.

London: Routledge.

 

«This book brings together a series of new and historical case studies to show how different phases of globalization are transforming the built environment. Taking a broad interdisciplinary approach, the author draws on sociological, geographical, cultural and postcolonial studies to provide a critical account of the development of three key concepts: global culture, post colonialism, and modernity. Subsequent case studies examine how global economic, political and cultural forces shape the forms of architectural and urban modernity in globalized suburbs and spaces in major cities worldwide. The first book to combine global and postcolonial theoretical approaches to the built environment and to illustrate these with examples, Spaces of Global Cultures argues for a more historical and interdisciplinary understanding of globalization: one that places material space and the built environment at the centre and calls for new theories to address new conditions.»

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Carlos Nunes Silva (2007). recensão / book review

In Planning Perspectives. An International Journal of History, Planning and the Environment, Vol. 22 (4): 473-476.

Urban Planning in a changing world: the twentieth century experience

Robert Freestone (ed.). Urban Planning in a changing world:
the twentieth century experience. London: Spon

Urban utopias in the twentieth century

Fishman, Robert (1997). Urban utopias in the twentieth century.

Cambridge (Mass.): The MIT Press.

The legacy of Ebenezer Howard

Hall, Peter & Ward, Colin (1998). Sociables cities. The legacy of Ebenezer Howard.

London: Wiley.

The birth of city planning in the United States, 1840-1917

 

Peterson, Jon A. (2003). The birth of city planning in the United States, 1840-1917.

Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press.

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Carlos Nunes Silva (2008). recensão / book review
Past - Pionner American Society Transactions, vol. 31: 113-116.