Economy, Population, Jurisdiction, and Town Building, 1875-1885

2018 ◽  
pp. 73-106
Author(s):  
Brad A. Bays
Keyword(s):  
Town Building

Town-Building in History

1957 ◽  
Vol 123 (3) ◽  
pp. 406
Author(s):  
T. W. Freeman ◽  
Frederick R. Hiorns ◽  
Otis Dudley Duncan ◽  
Albert J. Reiss
Keyword(s):  
Town Building

The Treasury As Developer-Capitalist? British New Town Building in the 1950s

1990 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 903-924 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol E. Heim
Keyword(s):  
Government Spending ◽  
The State ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Property Development ◽  
New Town ◽  
New Towns ◽  
Public Role ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Town Center ◽  
Town Building

In the 1950s the British Treasury made an unusual departure from its traditional effort to minimize government spending, arguing that publicly funded development corporations rather than private developers should build town centers in New Towns so as to reap returns from property development. Often associated with frontier growth, development gain is partly created by the state and can only emerge and be realized with the passage of time and the evolution of expectations. Divisions within the state kept Treasury officials from fully securing a greater public role in New Town center building.

Shivta-A Byzantine Town in the Negev Desert

1985 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Segal
Keyword(s):  
Economic Life ◽  
Negev Desert ◽  
Beer Sheva ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Town ◽  
Town Building ◽  
Aesthetic Values

Shivta, a Byzantine town settled in the 5th century and abandoned in the 8th or 9th century C. E., occupies an area of about 20 acres in the Negev desert 43 kilometers southwest of Beer-Sheva. Remains of terraces, dams, and other agricultural structures indicate that the town, which was far from the trade routes, existed mainly on agriculture. Examination of the town today shows that Shivta's three churches were the source of influence and authority not only in matters of religion and worship, but also apparently in the public, administrative, and economic life of the town. It appears, further, that Shivta, as it was built, offers nothing unique in comparison to other, similarly situated towns of the same period in Roman and Byzantine Palestine and the neighboring regions. Lacking an urban tradition, its inhabitants evidently were unconcerned with aesthetic values in town building. Shivta developed spontaneously, without a guiding hand or any effort to create a monumental emphasis.

scholarly journals Urban Housing PARIS: Town/Building/ Apartment

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toni Peltola ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Urban Housing ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
City Life ◽  
The North ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Nearest Neighborhood ◽  
The City ◽  
Town Building

The project starts from the idea that to build a town and to build a dwelling emerge from the same principle – the attempt to define the limits of our way of living. The triptych of town, building, and apartment participates to this definition in stages from the intimacy of apartment to the environment of the nearest neighborhood and all the way to the making of the city. The architectural project defines itself also as a social project dealing with the inhabitants’ relation to the other individuals and to the society. The site is located between Zac Rue de Flandre Sud development area and the vast open space ofthe railroad yard of Gare de I ‘Est on the north side of the lively Boulevard de la Villette. The broken context of the turn-of-the-century working class housing is collected with a physical incision to the urban fabric. Green line – park – forms an oasis in the city life and creates public space in the quarter. Visually a whole, the park is divided into parts for each respective block and raised a little above the street level. The nature is set in the architectural frame. It is presented as a different space – living and seemingly homogeneous and confronted with the mix of buildings. The changes along the seasons condition the atmosphere of the park, which is opposite to the stability of the living buildings.

Economic Topography

2020 ◽  
pp. 121-170
Author(s):  
Catherine Casson ◽  
Mark Casson ◽  
John S. Lee ◽  
Katie Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Town ◽  
Town Building

Chapter 3 analyses the economic topography of the town, building on the results presented in Chapter 2. It investigates how far occupations were specialised in different part of the town. It constructs profiles of all the Cambridge parishes, showing how many properties were located in each, how much rent those properties paid, to whom they paid it, who held the properties, and in some cases their occupation too. It is also possible to chart the spatial distribution of occupational names. Because of the missing roll, it is possible for the first time to provide a definitive account of all the parishes. This corrects a bias in previous topographical accounts, which have over-emphasised the north and west of the town at the expense of the south and east.

International Initiatives and Building a Legacy

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin E. Larsen
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
World War ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
New Town ◽  
New Towns ◽  
Planning Experts ◽  
Town Building

This chapter considers Clarence Samuel Stein's legacy as a community architect, along with his postwar engagement in international initiatives in town planning. In the years after World War II, Stein found himself turning his attention toward international translations of his new town ideas. Communications with international architects, housers, and planners characterized this period, with a focus on specific projects, such as the new towns of Chandigarh in India and Stevenage in Great Britain, and broader community building concepts with housing and planning experts in places as diverse as Sweden and Israel. This chapter discusses Stein's travels in Europe to new towns as he completed documentation of his own visionary work in what would become Toward New Towns for America. It also describes Stein's involvement in town building projects in India and Israel and concludes with an assessment of his legacy in the areas of investment housing and communitarian regionalism and the influence of his community building concepts ranging from the Regional City to the Radburn Idea.

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