Perverse Cities: Hidden Subsidies, Wonky Policy, and Urban Sprawl
(Source: amazon.com)
I have just finished this book and I have to say it is one of the best books I have read. It´s not only about architecture or landscapes. It is a complete study of how urban economy, urban planning, history, lifestyle, sociology and the future of work link.
Pastoral capitalism as a marketing idea to complete suburban lifestyles for white-collar workers after II world War. Pastoral capitalism as a set of social values to take headquarters and laboratories out of city centres.
This is the way we organized professional services in the last decades BUT, WILL IT LAST? The way we work is changing. Do we need these big spaces?
Great, great book.
(Source: bonfirevanities, via zuloarkcollective)
Cities for People, Not for Profit
Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City
The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and unsustainability of capitalist forms of urbanization. This book contributes analyses intended to be useful for efforts to roll back contemporary profit-based forms of urbanization, and to promote alternative, radically democratic and sustainable forms of urbanism.
Small Gritty and Green: The promise of America’s smaller industrial cities in a low-carbon world
By Catherine Tumber
(Source: cles.org.uk)
2011 Global Metro Monitor
by Brookings
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International Handbook Of Globalization And World Cities
Our cities are full of empty buildings. Here’s how we can use them better.
城市裡閒置建築好多，但其實有更多用途。
Startup New York. Technology-led urban economy
Nueva York apuesta por las startups.I wrote some notes in my blog about New York and how it is trying to overtake Silicon Valley. Urban economy and tech startups. Even a powerful global capital needs to reinvent its economy.
As always, you can try with an automatic translation of the original in spanish.
An analysis of public records shows that more than 400 technology start-ups in New York City have raised money from investors in the last two years.
Creativity and the Capitalist City :: TRAILER :: Amsterdam 2011
(Source: thepolisblog.org)
Map: China’s Top 100 Industrial Clusters
The map below illustrates the concentration of industry in China, using cities to identify locations where resources and competencies have been concentrated to produce a competitive advantage in a specific industry.
(via nycdigital)
European regional economy (GDP and unemployment)
