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Author:
Bill Bishop
Title: The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us ApartReview
"Essential reading for activists, poli-sci types, journalists and trend-watchers." (Kirkus Reviews )
"A timely, highly readable discussion of American neighborhoods and the implications of who lives in them." (Library Journal )
"A book posing hard questions across the political spectrum." (Booklist, ALA, Boxed Review )
"Bishop's argument is meticulously researched—surveys and polls proliferate—and his reach is broad." (Publishers Weekly )
"Jam-packed with fascinating data, "The Big Sort" presents a provocative portrait of the splintering of America." (Boston Globe )
"[a] rich and challenging book about the ways in which the citizens of this country have, in the past generation, rearranged themselves into discrete enclaves that have little to say to one another and little incentive to bother trying." (The Wall Street Journal )
"a gripping new book" - The Economist
Author:
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Title: Municipal Mind: Manifestos for the Creative City
Building sustainable cities in a global era, predicated on city soul. Municipal Mind
offers up a whole new way of civic being and thinking that puts wonder before
commerce and nothing before human encounter.
Author:
John Howkins
Title: The Creative Economy: How People Make Money from Ideas
Product Description
Britain makes more money from music than from its car industry. In the United States, the core copyright industries achieved foreign sales and exports of $60.18 billion-a figure that surpasses, for the first time, every other export sector, including automobiles, agriculture, and aircraft. Howkins sets out to explore how we can harness creativity and the industry it sustains to our common interests. The Creative Economy is not about information and the information society. It is about more basic matters, what we humans want and what we are good at.
Managing creative people will be fundamental to business success in the next century, and this book is the first to address the whole business of the creative economy-its importance, and how to manage it. A landmark in business books.
Author:
Charles Landry
Titles:
The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators 2nd Edition
Review
"* 'A stimulating book which will help to change our outmoded views on the importance of imagination and culture as creative forces in the renaissance of our cities. This book will power the post-industrial revolution' Lord Richard Rogers * 'Immensely rewarding. A veritable cascade of stimulating ideas for anyone practically involved in making their city work' Ketso Gordhan, CEO, City of Johannesburg * 'Tremendously useful for practitioners in urban planning and revitalization' Development and Change * 'Charles Landry is one of the very few people with the experience and imagination to address the fundamental problems that confront cities today' Tim Campbell, Head of the Urban Partnership, The World Bank"
Product Description
The Creative City is a clarion call for imaginative action in developing and running urban life. It shows how to think, plan and act creatively in addressing urban issues, with remarkable examples of innovation and regeneration from around the world. This revised edition of Charles’ Landry’s highly influential text has been updated to contain a new introduction and case studies.
The Art of City Making
Review
"'Charles Landry is one of the very few people with the experience and imagination to address the fundamental problems that confront cities today' Tim Campbell, The World Bank"
Product Description
City-making is an art, not a formula. The skills required to re-enchant the city are far wider than the conventional ones like architecture, engineering and land-use planning. There is no simplistic, ten-point plan, but strong principles can help send good city-making on its way. The vision for 21st century cities must be to be the most imaginative cities for the world rather than in the world. This one change of word – from ‘in’ to ‘for’ – gives city-making an ethical foundation and value base. It helps cities become places of solidarity where the relations between the individual, the group, outsiders to the city and the planet are in better alignment.
Following the widespread success of The Creative City, this new book, aided by international case studies, explains how to reassess urban potential so that cities can strengthen their identity and adapt to the changing global terms of trade and mass migration. It explores the deeper fault-lines, paradoxes and strategic dilemmas that make creating the ‘good city’ so difficult.
The Intercultural City: Planning for Diversity Advantage
Product Description
In a world where individuals are increasingly mobile, how people originating from
different cultures live together is one of the key issues of the 21st century. There is a
growing need for new thinking on how diverse communities can live together in
productive harmony and not in parallel and separate lives. Policy is often
dominated by mitigating the perceived negative effects of diversity (complexity,
loss of cohesion, exploitation and racism) but little thought has been given to how
a diversity dividend or increased innovative capacity might be achieved.
The Intercultural City analyzes the relationship of urban policy to policies on
cultural diversity, principally in the UK but also drawing upon original research in
North America, Europe and Australasia. It includes a review of the literature in the
field, and a critique of past and current policy, before introducing new theoretical
concepts. It provides significant and practical advice for the reader, with new
insights and tools for practitioners including the “intercultural lens”, “indicators of
openness” and “urban cultural literacy”.
<<u>u>Author:
Bill Strickland
Title: Make the Impossible Possible: One Man's Crusade to Inspire Others
to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary</</u>b>
“Passionate. Inspirational. Hopeful. Optimistic. Powerful. Compelling. And most important— it works . . . Here is the cure to what ails this country. Take it home. Read it. Then live it.” —Alan M. Webber, founding editor, Fast Company magazine
“Bill Strickland is a genius, because he sees the inherent genius in everyone. Bill’s ability to inspire hope is powerful, universal, and world changing. Make the Impossible Possible will show you how you can achieve even your wildest dreams. Bravo!”
—Jeff Skoll, first president of eBay, founder and chairman, Skoll Foundation
“I have lived a jazz life for the better part of my 95 years, but it was not until I read Bill’s book that I truly understood the influence that jazz has had on my success.…Kudos to Bill who has not only put into words what I have always felt in my heart, but who has also laid out a path that others can follow.”
— John Levy, NEA Jazz Master, manager of Cannonball Adderley, Wes Montgomery, Joe Williams, Nancy Wilson, and many others.
"We often hear the word inspire, likely allowing it to pass and not sink in our psyche.
However we often will never forget things that inspire us. A visit to see Bill Strickland's concept in Pittsburgh was one of those events for me. Now you can read about how he was driven to build it.” —Jim Hackett, President and CEO, Steelcase, Inc.
“Are you yearning to pursue what others say is an unrealistic or impractical dream? This is the book for you. By telling his remarkable story, Bill Strickland shows us that an impossible notion is just an idea nobody had the guts to try. With great flair and amazing range—you'll read about jazz, pottery, airplanes, even orchids!—he reveals how each of us can change our part of the world. Like the man who wrote it, this book is inspired and inspiring.” —Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author of A Whole New Mind
Author:
Tom Vanderbilt
Title: Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)</</u>b>
How could no one have written this book before? These days we spend almost as much time driving as we do eating (in fact, we do a lot of our eating while driving), but I can't remember the last time I saw a book on all the time we spend stuck in our cars. It's a topic of nearly universal interest, though: everybody has a strategy for beating the traffic. Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) has plenty of advice for those shortcut schemers (Vanderbilt may well convince you to become, as he has, a dreaded "Late Merger"), but more than that it's the sort of wide-ranging contrarian compendium that makes a familiar subject new. I'm not the first or last to call Traffic the Freakonomics of cars, but it's true that it fits right in with the school of smart and popular recent books by Leavitt, Gladwell, Surowiecki, Ariely, and others that use the latest in economic, sociological, psychological, and in this case civil engineering research to make us rethink a topic we live with every day. Want to know how much city traffic is just people looking for parking? (It's a lot.) Or why street signs don't work (but congestion pricing does), why new cars crash more than old cars, and why Saturdays now have the worst traffic of the week? Read Traffic, or better yet, listen to the audio book on your endless commute. --Tom Nissley
Author:
by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic
Title: The Endless City
Product Description
More and more people are moving into towns and cities to live and work, which is altering the urban/rural balance of countries worldwide. THE ENDLESS CITY is an unparalleled study of the growth of six of the world's international cities (New York, Shanghai, London, Mexico City, Johannesburg, and Berlin), exploring key structural, social, and economic factors. This book was overseen by the London School of Economics, and features extensive research and coherent texts by world-renowned professionals in the field of urban planning and development. The information is presented in a comprehensive and visually compelling sequence, enabling quick and efficient reference as well as offering material that is exciting to study. Each city is examined individually in its own chapter as well as being analyzed comparatively in an observational chapter. THE ENDLESS CITY is authoritatively edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic in collaboration with the London School of Economics and the Urban Age Project, an expanding international organization seeking a new urban agenda for global cities.
Please contact us to check one of these books out of our library. Please also feel free to recommend a book for the library or make a donation.
Author:
Bill Bishop
Title: The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us ApartReview
"Essential reading for activists, poli-sci types, journalists and trend-watchers." (Kirkus Reviews )
"A timely, highly readable discussion of American neighborhoods and the implications of who lives in them." (Library Journal )
"A book posing hard questions across the political spectrum." (Booklist, ALA, Boxed Review )
"Bishop's argument is meticulously researched—surveys and polls proliferate—and his reach is broad." (Publishers Weekly )
"Jam-packed with fascinating data, "The Big Sort" presents a provocative portrait of the splintering of America." (Boston Globe )
"[a] rich and challenging book about the ways in which the citizens of this country have, in the past generation, rearranged themselves into discrete enclaves that have little to say to one another and little incentive to bother trying." (The Wall Street Journal )
"a gripping new book" - The Economist
Author:
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Title: Municipal Mind: Manifestos for the Creative City
Building sustainable cities in a global era, predicated on city soul. Municipal Mind
offers up a whole new way of civic being and thinking that puts wonder before
commerce and nothing before human encounter.
Author:
John Howkins
Title: The Creative Economy: How People Make Money from Ideas
Product Description
Britain makes more money from music than from its car industry. In the United States, the core copyright industries achieved foreign sales and exports of $60.18 billion-a figure that surpasses, for the first time, every other export sector, including automobiles, agriculture, and aircraft. Howkins sets out to explore how we can harness creativity and the industry it sustains to our common interests. The Creative Economy is not about information and the information society. It is about more basic matters, what we humans want and what we are good at.
Managing creative people will be fundamental to business success in the next century, and this book is the first to address the whole business of the creative economy-its importance, and how to manage it. A landmark in business books.
Author:
Charles Landry
Titles:
The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators 2nd Edition
Review
"* 'A stimulating book which will help to change our outmoded views on the importance of imagination and culture as creative forces in the renaissance of our cities. This book will power the post-industrial revolution' Lord Richard Rogers * 'Immensely rewarding. A veritable cascade of stimulating ideas for anyone practically involved in making their city work' Ketso Gordhan, CEO, City of Johannesburg * 'Tremendously useful for practitioners in urban planning and revitalization' Development and Change * 'Charles Landry is one of the very few people with the experience and imagination to address the fundamental problems that confront cities today' Tim Campbell, Head of the Urban Partnership, The World Bank"
Product Description
The Creative City is a clarion call for imaginative action in developing and running urban life. It shows how to think, plan and act creatively in addressing urban issues, with remarkable examples of innovation and regeneration from around the world. This revised edition of Charles’ Landry’s highly influential text has been updated to contain a new introduction and case studies.
The Art of City Making
Review
"'Charles Landry is one of the very few people with the experience and imagination to address the fundamental problems that confront cities today' Tim Campbell, The World Bank"
Product Description
City-making is an art, not a formula. The skills required to re-enchant the city are far wider than the conventional ones like architecture, engineering and land-use planning. There is no simplistic, ten-point plan, but strong principles can help send good city-making on its way. The vision for 21st century cities must be to be the most imaginative cities for the world rather than in the world. This one change of word – from ‘in’ to ‘for’ – gives city-making an ethical foundation and value base. It helps cities become places of solidarity where the relations between the individual, the group, outsiders to the city and the planet are in better alignment.
Following the widespread success of The Creative City, this new book, aided by international case studies, explains how to reassess urban potential so that cities can strengthen their identity and adapt to the changing global terms of trade and mass migration. It explores the deeper fault-lines, paradoxes and strategic dilemmas that make creating the ‘good city’ so difficult.
The Intercultural City: Planning for Diversity Advantage
Product Description
In a world where individuals are increasingly mobile, how people originating from
different cultures live together is one of the key issues of the 21st century. There is a
growing need for new thinking on how diverse communities can live together in
productive harmony and not in parallel and separate lives. Policy is often
dominated by mitigating the perceived negative effects of diversity (complexity,
loss of cohesion, exploitation and racism) but little thought has been given to how
a diversity dividend or increased innovative capacity might be achieved.
The Intercultural City analyzes the relationship of urban policy to policies on
cultural diversity, principally in the UK but also drawing upon original research in
North America, Europe and Australasia. It includes a review of the literature in the
field, and a critique of past and current policy, before introducing new theoretical
concepts. It provides significant and practical advice for the reader, with new
insights and tools for practitioners including the “intercultural lens”, “indicators of
openness” and “urban cultural literacy”.
<<u>u>Author:
Bill Strickland
Title: Make the Impossible Possible: One Man's Crusade to Inspire Others
to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary</</u>b>
“Passionate. Inspirational. Hopeful. Optimistic. Powerful. Compelling. And most important— it works . . . Here is the cure to what ails this country. Take it home. Read it. Then live it.” —Alan M. Webber, founding editor, Fast Company magazine
“Bill Strickland is a genius, because he sees the inherent genius in everyone. Bill’s ability to inspire hope is powerful, universal, and world changing. Make the Impossible Possible will show you how you can achieve even your wildest dreams. Bravo!”
—Jeff Skoll, first president of eBay, founder and chairman, Skoll Foundation
“I have lived a jazz life for the better part of my 95 years, but it was not until I read Bill’s book that I truly understood the influence that jazz has had on my success.…Kudos to Bill who has not only put into words what I have always felt in my heart, but who has also laid out a path that others can follow.”
— John Levy, NEA Jazz Master, manager of Cannonball Adderley, Wes Montgomery, Joe Williams, Nancy Wilson, and many others.
"We often hear the word inspire, likely allowing it to pass and not sink in our psyche.
However we often will never forget things that inspire us. A visit to see Bill Strickland's concept in Pittsburgh was one of those events for me. Now you can read about how he was driven to build it.” —Jim Hackett, President and CEO, Steelcase, Inc.
“Are you yearning to pursue what others say is an unrealistic or impractical dream? This is the book for you. By telling his remarkable story, Bill Strickland shows us that an impossible notion is just an idea nobody had the guts to try. With great flair and amazing range—you'll read about jazz, pottery, airplanes, even orchids!—he reveals how each of us can change our part of the world. Like the man who wrote it, this book is inspired and inspiring.” —Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author of A Whole New Mind
Author:
Tom Vanderbilt
Title: Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)</</u>b>
How could no one have written this book before? These days we spend almost as much time driving as we do eating (in fact, we do a lot of our eating while driving), but I can't remember the last time I saw a book on all the time we spend stuck in our cars. It's a topic of nearly universal interest, though: everybody has a strategy for beating the traffic. Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) has plenty of advice for those shortcut schemers (Vanderbilt may well convince you to become, as he has, a dreaded "Late Merger"), but more than that it's the sort of wide-ranging contrarian compendium that makes a familiar subject new. I'm not the first or last to call Traffic the Freakonomics of cars, but it's true that it fits right in with the school of smart and popular recent books by Leavitt, Gladwell, Surowiecki, Ariely, and others that use the latest in economic, sociological, psychological, and in this case civil engineering research to make us rethink a topic we live with every day. Want to know how much city traffic is just people looking for parking? (It's a lot.) Or why street signs don't work (but congestion pricing does), why new cars crash more than old cars, and why Saturdays now have the worst traffic of the week? Read Traffic, or better yet, listen to the audio book on your endless commute. --Tom Nissley
Author:
by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic
Title: The Endless City
Product Description
More and more people are moving into towns and cities to live and work, which is altering the urban/rural balance of countries worldwide. THE ENDLESS CITY is an unparalleled study of the growth of six of the world's international cities (New York, Shanghai, London, Mexico City, Johannesburg, and Berlin), exploring key structural, social, and economic factors. This book was overseen by the London School of Economics, and features extensive research and coherent texts by world-renowned professionals in the field of urban planning and development. The information is presented in a comprehensive and visually compelling sequence, enabling quick and efficient reference as well as offering material that is exciting to study. Each city is examined individually in its own chapter as well as being analyzed comparatively in an observational chapter. THE ENDLESS CITY is authoritatively edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic in collaboration with the London School of Economics and the Urban Age Project, an expanding international organization seeking a new urban agenda for global cities.
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