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Since the Industrial Revolution, cities and industry have grown
together; towns and metropolitan regions have evolved around
factories and expanding industries. New Industrial Urbanism
explores the evolving and future relationships between cities and
places of production, focusing on the spatial implications and
physical design of integrating contemporary manufacturing into the
city. The book examines recent developments that have led to
dramatic shifts in the manufacturing sector - from large-scale mass
production methods to small-scale distributed systems; from
polluting and consumptive production methods to a cleaner and more
sustainable process; from broad demand for unskilled labor to a
growing need for a more educated and specialized workforce - to
show how cities see new investment and increased employment
opportunities. Looking ahead to the quest to make cities more
competitive and resilient, New Industrial Urbanism provides lessons
from cases around the world and suggests adopting New Industrial
Urbanism as an action framework that reconnects what has been
separated: people, places, and production. Moving the conversation
beyond the reflexively-negative characterizations of industry, more
than two centuries after the start of the Industrial Revolution,
this book calls to re-consider the ways in which industry creates
places, sustains jobs, and supports environmental sustainability in
our cities. This book is available as Open Acess through
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/.
Since the Industrial Revolution, cities and industry have grown
together; towns and metropolitan regions have evolved around
factories and expanding industries. New Industrial Urbanism
explores the evolving and future relationships between cities and
places of production, focusing on the spatial implications and
physical design of integrating contemporary manufacturing into the
city. The book examines recent developments that have led to
dramatic shifts in the manufacturing sector - from large-scale mass
production methods to small-scale distributed systems; from
polluting and consumptive production methods to a cleaner and more
sustainable process; from broad demand for unskilled labor to a
growing need for a more educated and specialized workforce - to
show how cities see new investment and increased employment
opportunities. Looking ahead to the quest to make cities more
competitive and resilient, New Industrial Urbanism provides lessons
from cases around the world and suggests adopting New Industrial
Urbanism as an action framework that reconnects what has been
separated: people, places, and production. Moving the conversation
beyond the reflexively-negative characterizations of industry, more
than two centuries after the start of the Industrial Revolution,
this book calls to re-consider the ways in which industry creates
places, sustains jobs, and supports environmental sustainability in
our cities. This book is available as Open Acess through
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/.
Public protests are a vital tool for asserting grievances and
creating temporary, yet tangible, communities as the world becomes
more democratic and urban in the twenty-first century. While the
political and social aspects of protest have been extensively
studied, little attention has been paid to the physical spaces in
which protests happen. Yet place is a crucial aspect of protests,
influencing the dynamics and engagement patterns among
participants. In The Design of Protest, Tali Hatuka offers the
first extensive discussion of the act of protest as a design: that
is, a planned event in a space whose physical geometry and symbolic
meaning are used and appropriated by its organizers, who aim to
challenge socio-spatial distance between political institutions and
the people they should serve. Presenting case studies from around
the world, including Tiananmen Square in Beijing; the National Mall
in Washington, DC; Rabin Square in Tel Aviv; and the Plaza de Mayo
in Buenos Aires, Hatuka identifies three major dimensions of public
protests: the process of planning the protest in a particular
place; the choice of spatial choreography of the event, including
the value and meaning of specific tactics; and the challenges of
performing contemporary protests in public space in a fragmented,
complex, and conflicted world. Numerous photographs, detailed
diagrams, and plans complement the case studies, which draw upon
interviews with city officials, urban planners, and protesters
themselves.
Violent acts over the past fifteen years have profoundly altered
civil rituals, cultural identity, and the meaning of place in Tel
Aviv. Three events in particular have shed light on the global rule
of urban space in the struggle for territory, resources, and power:
the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin in 1995 in the city
council square; the suicidal bombing at the Dolphinarium
Discotheque along the shoreline in 2001; and bombings in the Neve
Shaanan neighborhood in 2003. Tali Hatuka uses an interdisciplinary
framework of urban theory and sociopolitical theory to shed light
on the discourse regarding violent events to include an analysis of
the physical space where these events take place. She exposes the
complex relationships among local groups, the state, and the city,
challenging the national discourse by offering a fresh
interpretation of contesting forces and their effect on the urban
environment. Perhaps the most valuable contribution of this book is
its critical assessment of the current Israeli reality, which is
affected by violent events that continually alter the everyday life
of its citizens. Although these events have been widely publicized
by the media, there is scant literature focusing on their impact on
the urban spaces where people live and meet. In addition, Hatuka
shows how sociopolitical events become crucial defining moments in
contemporary lived experience, allowing us to examine universal
questions about the way democracy, ideology, and memory are
manifested in the city.
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