Reviews : The Car and the City: The Automobile, the Built Environment, and Daily Urban Life Martin Wachs and Margaret Crawford, Editors University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1992. 325 pages. $37.50 (HB). Fast Wheels, Slow Traffic: Urban Transport Choices Charles L. Wright Temple University Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1992. 288 pages. $34.95 (HB

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-152
Author(s):  
Alan Black
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Temple University ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
The City

Joy flows through the city

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-298
Author(s):  
Mary Glenn ◽  
Jude Tiersma Watson
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
The City

People may see the pain, suffering, and injustices in the built environment before thinking of joy in the city. There are many ways of responding to the challenges facing global cities including creating rhythms and spaces of joy, identifying sources of joy, practicing kinship and mutuality as well as sharing and building joy. The gospel at its core is a revelation of the joy of Christ, a joy that is present in cities, in our cities. This article relates stories and explores scriptural themes such as shalom seeking (Jeremiah 29) that weave joy into the fabric of urban life. Joy flows like water through our lives and cities.

scholarly journals SAMUEL J. ELDERSVELD

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (04) ◽  
pp. 800-801
Author(s):  
John E. Jackson ◽  
M. Kent Jennings ◽  
Lawrence B. Mohr ◽  
Hanes Walton
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Remarkable Change ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Samuel J. Eldersveld, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Michigan and former mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan, passed away in Ann Arbor on March 5, 2010, at age 92. This closed a chapter on an extraordinary association with the University of Michigan, the discipline of political science, and the city of Ann Arbor, associations that brought remarkable change to each.

scholarly journals Paul Conway and Martha O’Hara Conway. Flood in Florence, 1966: A Fifty-Year Retrospective: Proceedings of Symposium, November 3 and 4, 2016, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Tamara E. Livingston
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Retaining Walls ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Motor Oil ◽  
Low Level ◽  
The World ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
The City ◽  
Heavy Rains

The year 2016 marked the fifty-year anniversary of the tragic and destructive flood in Florence, Italy. The floodwaters shook the world with their indiscriminate destruction of human life, property, and priceless Florentine cultural heritage. Early in November of 1966, days of heavy rains transformed the Arno River into a raging beast, overflowing its retaining walls and submerging much of the city and the area around it in foul, murky water filled with sediment, vegetation, sewage, motor oil, and the flotsam of human civilization. The floodwaters either destroyed or badly damaged historic collections of art, sculpture, architecture, books, manuscripts, and documents stored in low-level galleries or basements of institutes, libraries, museums, and private residences.

Architecture, Materiality, and the Tactile City

2019 ◽  
pp. 136-173
Author(s):  
Benjamin Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Architectural Form ◽  
Reading Experience ◽  
Circulation Patterns ◽  
The City

This chapter explores the built environment of the city at a personal scale. In a cover titled “The Comix Factory” designed for the comics magazine Raw, Dutch artist Joost Swarte employs the formal depth of comics to suggest their connection to tactile qualities of urban life in three dimensions. American Chris Ware’s ambitious boxed anthology Building Stories invites a tactile reading experience and pushes the architectural form of the comics multiframe to its limits. Also hailing from America, Mark Beyer’s transposition of his popular Amy and Jordan comic to the format of “City of Terror Trading Cards” uses tactility to implicate comics in city circulation patterns. Canadian artist Seth has been building tactile models of buildings in Dominion—the fictional setting for many of his comics. The Ghost of Gaudí by El Torres and Jesús Alonso Iglesias highlights Barcelona’s architecture.

scholarly journals High Street

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Alexandra Maria Sawicka-Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Ground Plane ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Jane Jacobs ◽  
High Rise ◽  
High Street ◽  
To Come ◽  
The City

<p>High Street addresses the problem of disconnection between high-rise buildings and the life of the street. High-rises are often adopted as an efficient means of creating more usable space per square meter. However, their height also isolates them from the urban milieu below. This thesis investigates how to unite the two typologies by elevating the street through the high-rise. As more people are living in cities, the high-rise has become the most prevalent building type to accommodate this increasing urban density. It is important to continue to address how the built environment can enhance urban life architecturally.  This proposition investigates externalising the circulation of a ten storey apartment building in central Wellington in a way that encourages the pedestrian to come above the ground plane and gives the resident a direct connection to the outdoors. In doing so elevating the street challenges the norms of circulation design in high-rise buildings. This thesis draws on the observations of Jan Gehl, Jane Jacobs and Richard Sennett to develop a circulation space that acts a social condenser (Koolhaas 73) for the resident and the pedestrian. A series of formal experiments and case study analyses were used to further the design solution through comparison and critique. The research process revealed the tension between the need for efficiency and humaneness in the design solution and analysis showed that circulation design in high-rise buildings is often underdeveloped as a social condenser.  High Street creates a solution which three-dimensionalises the city from a pedestrian perspective and simultaneously improves the communal spaces of high-rise living. The elevated street redefines the connection between built environment and the public infrastructure of the city and a means by which the pedestrian can traverse it.</p>

The Dianszhizhai Pictorial: Shanghai Urban Life, 1884–1898. By Xiaoqing Ye. [Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. 249 pp. $50.00. ISBN 0-89264-162-2.]

2004 ◽  
Vol 177 ◽  
pp. 234-236
Author(s):  
Barbara Mittler
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Late Qing ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
History Of ◽  
Coffee Table

Finally, one is inclined to sigh, a scholarly study of the Shanghai illustrated magazine Dianshizhi huabao, one of the most significant pictorials in late-Qing China, founded by an Englishman, Ernest Major, who had successfully launched the Shanghai daily Shenbao a dozen years earlier. A handful of coffee table books hitherto featured illustrations from this pictorial, but there is no systematic study of its background and contents to date. This book is not that study either, but it presents a valuable mine of material. With its aim of reading the Dianshizhai huabao as a “source of Shanghai social history” (p. 2), it not only covers a wide range of material from the pictorial itself (laudably, it includes 137 illustrations), but also makes extensive use of the Shenbao, as well as contemporary memoirs and literary works.The book consists of four parts, a short introduction and an afterword. Part one gives a brief history of the Dianshizhai, parts two and three deal with stories depicting Shanghai as a city between old and new and the source of a new urban culture, respectively. Part four turns to religious practices depicted in the Dianshizhai. No explanation is given for why these particular topics have been chosen. In the 1991 dissertation on which this book is based, an argument about urban popular culture had served to connect the several parts. This argument created coherence. It has been eschewed here.

Architecture and the Urban Life of Cairo

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Opportunity To Learn ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Visual Narrative ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Urban Imaginary ◽  
Architectural Development ◽  
The City

When it comes to Cairo, there is a plethora of writing taking place amid its streets and alleyways. Trying to make sense of, and structure, such an immense output is quite a difficult task. However, this article aims to highlight some significant writings that would offer those interested in Cairo’s architecture an opportunity to learn more about the city and its built environment. My intent is also to expand the scope of the inquiry. Rather than simply focusing on specific buildings, I seek to include the broader urban context and also look at the socioeconomic conditions that gave rise to important structures. I start with a review of some major texts that have looked at the city from different perspectives and, in doing so, shed light on the city’s urban and architectural development. It is interesting to note that for the most part, authors in this section do not come from an architectural or urban-planning background. Instead they write from a historical, economic, and geographic perspective. Following this, I look at a variety of other sources and writings that have appeared in edited books and book chapters. I have also included journal articles, since they offer an in-depth examination of certain buildings and the city’s overall urban growth. In addition to writings about the city, I also sought to capture its “urban imaginary” (i.e., the extent to which its built environment has been represented by writers, filmmakers, and artists). To that end, a section is dedicated toward a review of key works and the extent to which they have shed valuable insights into Cairo’s past, present, and future. The city’s urban imaginary is also portrayed through the medium of film, which allows for a conveyance of a visual narrative that evokes the sight and sounds of the city. Here I review key articles discussing the representation of the city through cinema, which is then followed by a filmography of major movies released since the late 20th century. Last, I review online resources, offering researchers material about the city’s architecture and urban environment in the form of images, maps, and drawings, in addition to blogs discussing Cairo’s rich history as well as modern problems.

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