國立虎尾科技大學 |

The City of Grace = An Urban Manifesto /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The City of Grace/ by David Wadley.
Reminder of title:	An Urban Manifesto /
Author:	Wadley, David.
Description:	XXIII, 259 p. 13 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Human geography. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1112-7
ISBN:	9789811511127

The City of Grace = An Urban Manifesto /
Wadley, David.

The City of GraceAn Urban Manifesto /[electronic resource] :by David Wadley. - 1st ed. 2020. - XXIII, 259 p. 13 illus.online resource.

Chapter 1 Population, Globalization, the Market and The Environment -- Chapter 2 The Foundations of Urban Modelling -- Chapter 3 Beyond Goodness and Greatness: Desperately Seeking Grace -- Chapter 4 Modelling the City of Grace -- Chapter 5 A City Gracious in Function -- Chapter 6 A City Graceful in Form -- Chapter 7 A Graceless Age: Roadblocks and Pathways to Progress -- Chapter 8 Conclusion: Grace and Urban Well-Being -- Postscript -- Saving Grace: A Southern Saga.

In this sweeping appraisal of the urban condition, David Wadley argues that anything less that high-level resolution in modelling the well-being of inhabitants is wasting precious time. Humanity is encountering rising entropy, caused by unsustainable economic and demographic expansion. Backed by a strong interdisciplinary backdrop featuring systems and crisis theories, The City of Grace tackles these obstacles by picturing gracious function and graceful form in a human-scale settlement. In an attempt to salvage things lost in the teleology of urban development over the last 100 years, the outlook is both heterodox and contrarian. How long can we all go on in the present way? In addressing grace, a more elevated concept than those focusing previous urban analyses, this manifesto aims not to placate or please but, instead, to get humanity to face the encompassing realities it tries so hard to forget.

ISBN: 9789811511127

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-15-1112-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

571437
Human geography.

LC Class. No.: GF1-900

Dewey Class. No.: 304.2

The City of Grace = An Urban Manifesto /
LDR:02682nam a22003975i 4500 001 1026843
003 DE-He213
005 20200702034634.0
007 cr nn 008mamaa
008 210318s2020 si | s |||| 0|eng d
020 $a 9789811511127 $9 978-981-15-1112-7
024 7 $a 10.1007/978-981-15-1112-7 $2 doi
035 $a 978-981-15-1112-7
050 4 $a GF1-900
072 7 $a RGC $2 bicssc
072 7 $a SOC015000 $2 bisacsh
072 7 $a RGC $2 thema
082 0 4 $a 304.2 $2 23
100 1 $a Wadley, David. $e author. $4 aut $4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut $3 1323180
245 1 4 $a The City of Grace $h [electronic resource] : $b An Urban Manifesto / $c by David Wadley.
250 $a 1st ed. 2020.
264 1 $a Singapore : $b Springer Singapore : $b Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2020.
300 $a XXIII, 259 p. 13 illus. $b online resource.
336 $a text $b txt $2 rdacontent
337 $a computer $b c $2 rdamedia
338 $a online resource $b cr $2 rdacarrier
347 $a text file $b PDF $2 rda
505 0 $a Chapter 1 Population, Globalization, the Market and The Environment -- Chapter 2 The Foundations of Urban Modelling -- Chapter 3 Beyond Goodness and Greatness: Desperately Seeking Grace -- Chapter 4 Modelling the City of Grace -- Chapter 5 A City Gracious in Function -- Chapter 6 A City Graceful in Form -- Chapter 7 A Graceless Age: Roadblocks and Pathways to Progress -- Chapter 8 Conclusion: Grace and Urban Well-Being -- Postscript -- Saving Grace: A Southern Saga.
520 $a In this sweeping appraisal of the urban condition, David Wadley argues that anything less that high-level resolution in modelling the well-being of inhabitants is wasting precious time. Humanity is encountering rising entropy, caused by unsustainable economic and demographic expansion. Backed by a strong interdisciplinary backdrop featuring systems and crisis theories, The City of Grace tackles these obstacles by picturing gracious function and graceful form in a human-scale settlement. In an attempt to salvage things lost in the teleology of urban development over the last 100 years, the outlook is both heterodox and contrarian. How long can we all go on in the present way? In addressing grace, a more elevated concept than those focusing previous urban analyses, this manifesto aims not to placate or please but, instead, to get humanity to face the encompassing realities it tries so hard to forget.
650 0 $a Human geography. $3 571437
650 0 $a Sociology, Urban. $3 558048
650 0 $a Urban planning. $3 1180826
650 0 $a City planning. $3 554970
650 1 4 $a Human Geography. $3 670481
650 2 4 $a Urban Studies/Sociology. $3 1105769
650 2 4 $a Urbanism. $3 668179
710 2 $a SpringerLink (Online service) $3 593884
773 0 $t Springer Nature eBook
776 0 8 $i Printed edition: $z 9789811511110
776 0 8 $i Printed edition: $z 9789811511134
776 0 8 $i Printed edition: $z 9789811511141
856 4 0 $u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1112-7
912 $a ZDB-2-SLS
912 $a ZDB-2-SXS
950 $a Social Sciences (SpringerNature-41176)
950 $a Social Sciences (R0) (SpringerNature-43726)