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The Geometry of Urban Layouts

A Global Comparative Study

By: Mahbub Rashid

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The Geometry of Urban Layouts

A Global Comparative Study

By: Mahbub Rashid

This book presents a compendium of the urban layout maps of 2-mile square downtown areas of more than one hundred cities in developed and developing countries—all drawn at the same scale using high-resolution satellite images of Google Maps. The book also presents analytic studies using metric geometrical, topological (or network), and fractal measures of these maps. These analytic studies identify ordinaries, extremes, similarities, and differences in these maps; investigate the scaling properties of these maps; and develop precise descriptive categories, types and indicators for multidimensional comparative studies of these maps. The findings of these studies indicate that many geometric relations of the urban layouts of downtown areas follow regular patterns; that despite social, economic, and cultural differences among cities, the geometric measures of downtown areas in cities of developed and developing countries do not show significant differences; and that the geometric possibilities of urban layouts are vastly greater than those that have been realized so far in our cities.

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Built Environment and Population Health in Small-Town America

Learning from Small Cities of Kansas

By: Mahbub Rashid

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Built Environment and Population Health in Small-Town America

Learning from Small Cities of Kansas

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This book describes the population health concerns of small-town America and how these concerns are affected by the unique characteristics of these places focusing on the built environment"--

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1421447991

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Physical Space and Spatiality in Muslim Societies

Notes on the Social Production of Cities

By: Mahbub Rashid

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Physical Space and Spatiality in Muslim Societies

Notes on the Social Production of Cities

By: Mahbub Rashid

Mahbub Rashid embarks on a fascinating journey through urban space in all of its physical and social aspects, using the theories of Foucault, Bourdieu, Lefebvre, and others to explore how consumer capitalism, colonialism, and power disparity consciously shape cities. Using two Muslim cities as case studies, Algiers (Ottoman/French) and Zanzibar (Ottoman/British), Rashid shows how Western perceptions can only view Muslim cities through the lens of colonization—a lens that distorts both physical and social space. Is it possible, he asks, to find a useable urban past in a timeline broken by colonization? He concludes that political economy may be less relevant in premodern cities, that local variation is central to the understanding of power, that cities engage more actively in social reproduction than in production, that the manipulation of space is the exercise of power, that all urban space is a conscious construct and is therefore not inevitable, and that consumer capitalism is taking over everyday life. Ultimately, we reconstruct a present from a fragmented past through local struggles against the homogenizing power of abstract space.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472128817

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The Geometry of Urban Layouts

A Global Comparative Study

By: Mahbub Rashid

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A Global Comparative Study

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Reflections on Human Development

By: Mahbub ul Haq

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Reflections on Human Development

By: Mahbub ul Haq

This work explores a new development paradigm whose central focus is on human well-being. Increase in income is treated as an essential means, but not as the end of development, and certainly not as the sum of human life. Development policies and strategies are discussed which link economic growth with human lives in various societies. The book also analyzes the evolution of a new Human Development Index which is a far more comprehensive measure of socio-economic progress of nations than the traditional measure of Gross National Product. For the first time, a Political Freedom Index is also presented. The book offers a new vision of human security for the twenty-first century where real security is equated with security of people in their homes, their jobs, their communities, and their environment. The book discusses many concrete proposals in this context, including a global compact to overcome the worst aspects of global poverty within a decade, key reforms in the Bretton Woods institutions of World Bank and IMF, and establishment of a new Economic Security Council within the United Nations.

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Oxford University Press

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0195356306

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Built Environment and Population Health in Small-Town America

Learning from Small Cities of Kansas

By: Mahbub Rashid

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Built Environment and Population Health in Small-Town America

Learning from Small Cities of Kansas

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This book describes the population health concerns of small-town America and how these concerns are affected by the unique characteristics of these places focusing on the built environment"--

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Physical Space and Spatiality in Muslim Societies

Notes on the Social Production of Cities

By: Mahbub Rashid

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Notes on the Social Production of Cities

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Book's by Mahbub Rashid

The Geometry of Urban Layouts

The Geometry of Urban Layouts

Built Environment and Population Health in Small-Town America

Built Environment and Population Health in Small-Town America

Physical Space and Spatiality in Muslim Societies

Physical Space and Spatiality in Muslim Societies

The Geometry of Urban Layouts

The Geometry of Urban Layouts

Reflections on Human Development

Reflections on Human Development

Built Environment and Population Health in Small-Town America

Built Environment and Population Health in Small-Town America

Physical Space and Spatiality in Muslim Societies

Physical Space and Spatiality in Muslim Societies

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