《拱廊研究计划》是本雅明对巴黎19世纪城市景观的研究计划。在19世纪与20世纪现代性与资本主义是一个硬币的两面。“浪漫主义的反资本主义者”本雅明接受列宁所说“最后阶段”，相信资本主义的末世不远，萌生了通过研究巴黎拱廊这样一个大都市异化景观来研究19世纪下半叶“资本主义盛世”的计划，即《巴黎拱廊计划》。在这项研究完成之前本雅明自杀身亡，遗留下来的只有两篇提纲（1935年提纲与1939年提纲）和两篇关于泼德莱尔的论文。这些所有遗留的文字即是本书《巴黎，19世纪的首都》。虽然是一部未完成作品，但是没有人会怀疑其重要性。

財政危機曾經漫溢於大部分開發中國家，造成災難性後果，遍及墨西哥到印尼，俄羅斯到阿根廷，而今 (2008)更從已開發國家的美國幅爆出金融海嘯，全球無一寸土能夠倖免。新自由主義幾乎等於全球化，新自由主義化所帶來的災難，因此幾乎等於災難的全球化。高度發達資本主義已經自掘墳墓了嗎？影響所及，馬克思主義經典遂而在西方再度熱銷。馬克思主義是否是救贖仍未知，但新自由主義的失敗已是事實。不管如何，站立在自己腳上的反思是必要的，台灣不能再人家消費我們買單了。
大衛．哈維是當今最重要的地理學家，也是當前時代領袖群倫的社會理論家，針對當代資本主義提出了全面性的批判。在這本十分迷人的書裡，他指引了邁向理解世界經濟驅動力量的道路，擴大了他近期著述的關鍵主題：新自由主義的發展、蔓延全球的不平等，以及「空間」是個關鍵性的理論概念。
這本書既是新研究綱領的重大宣告，也是大衛．哈維核心關懷的簡明導論，將成為人文學科與社會科學領域學者及學生的必讀之作。
特別註明：本中譯書翻譯所依據之原文書版本（即2005年由Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart出版），等同於2006年Verso出版的版本。
【本書目錄】
導言：二○○四年海德堡的赫特納講座 ... Peter Meusburger 與 Hans Gebhardt
新自由主義與階級力量的復辟 ... 大衛．哈維
不均地理發展理論筆記 ... 大衛．哈維
空間是個關鍵詞 ... 大衛．哈維
索引

该书系统地勾勒出1000年至1994年欧洲城市化进程的轮廓，同时向读者阐释了对于城市建筑者的成果以及“高度便利”的城市生活的理解。全书包括三部分。第一部分，前工业化时期：11-14世纪；第二部分，原工业时代：14-18世纪；第三部的：工业时代：18-20世纪。

本书是旅美中国历史学家王笛对成都社会史的研究著作，作者从下层民众的角度详细描绘了晚清到民国初年的成都丰富的城市生活，为我们呈现了在邻里穿梭的小贩和工匠、打扰居民的乞丐和流氓、宗教仪式和娱乐，以及充满活力的茶馆。

In 1980, William H. Whyte published the findings from his revolutionary Street Life Project in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Both the book and the accompanying film were instantly labeled classics, and launched a mini-revolution in the planning and study of public spaces. They have since become standard texts, and appear on syllabi and reading lists in urban planning, sociology, environmental design, and architecture departments around the world.
Project for Public Spaces, which grew out of Holly’s Street Life Project and continues his work around the world, has acquired the reprint rights to Social Life, with the intent of making it available to the widest possible audience and ensuring that the Whyte family receive their fair share of Holly’s legacy.
Summary: This book is great
Rating: 5
I read this book for school... but I would recommend it to anyone interested in the subject matter. (Reading it, I was always wandering around talking to friends and family about it). The book is short, but there is a lot to think about. :)
Summary: How urban areas work
Rating: 5
Years ago I watched an episode of NOVA on PBS on William H. Whyte that explained the background and purpose and accomplishments of his project to study what makes urban spaces in cities work. I sat there riveted, as he methodically and carefully unveiled a vast range of urban phenomena of which I had hitherto been unaware.
The background to his study was this: following the enormous success of the plaza of Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building in New York in the mid-1950s, the city began to give tax breaks to new buildings that included plazas as part of their design. At the Seagram, people found in the heart of the city a marvelous space in which to congregate, to eat lunch, to sit and talk, and just enjoy a few minutes away from the office. While the idea of providing an incentive to new plaza development was unquestionably a great aim, a small problem developed: many of the new plazas were, unlike that of the Seagram, just dreadful. Cold, austere, people unfriendly, unwelcoming, many of them seemed designed more to keep people away than give them a place to enjoy themselves. This is where Whyte comes in. New York City was concerned with codifying what made a successful plaza, and giving tax breaks based more on the kind of plaza being built, rather than any kind of plaza at all. So, Whyte was charged with discovering precisely what goes into a successful urban space. The results of his exhaustive study are summed up in this brilliant monograph.
Whyte took cameras and began filming all kinds of urban spots in plazas and parks, and on regular sidewalks. As a result of this study, he was able first to analyze how urban spaces work, and secondly on the basis of this make, to make suggestions as to how to make successful spaces. He discusses the enormous value and utility of using fountains or falling water both to provide aesthetic benefits and to create a barrier of white noise between an urban space and the street. He shows the value of having a variety of steps and levels in providing fun places to sit. He allays the fears of those who are afraid that a plaza will attract undesirables by showing that the homeless tend to go where other people are not. He displays the patterns of traffic on sidewalks and the function that street food can play. Whyte comes across not merely as a sophisticated urban planner and social scientist: he is revealed as a visionary.
I think that this ought to be a must-read for anyone with any curiosity about cities and the potential they possess for a vibrant and exciting social life. Here in my own city of Chicago, I constantly lament that Whyte's lessons go unheeded and unlearned. We Chicagoans take pride in how clean our downtown area is, but we possess very, very few plazas, instead having virtually all of our buildings coming all the way to the edge of the sidewalk. I lament that there are so few places in the Loop and the near North to sit at lunch, that so very, very little has been done along the river to make it people friendly, and that there are so few places to congregate. We have a gorgeous, inpirational skyline, but on the sidewalk level, things are different. I wish our city planners had more of Whyte's view of things.
Summary: A classic case study for urban design professionals
Rating: 5
Although the photographs are dated, the material is classic. This book is a must for anyone who is involved with design or review of open spaces. It shows how people use open space and identifies the common elements of successful spaces. While the elements all seem logical, the book shows how we often fly in the face of logic when using these spaces. The book focuses primarily on plazas and small parks in New York City, but includes a section for smaller cities with low rise buildings. The information can also be applied to parks in any size town. This book is a facinating case study in social ecology.

In 1980, William H. Whyte published the findings from his revolutionary Street Life Project in The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces. Both the book and the accompanying film were instantly labeled classics, and launched a mini-revolution in the planning and study of public spaces. They have since become standard texts, and appear on syllabi and reading lists in urban planning, sociology, environmental design, and architecture departments around the world.




Project for Public Spaces, which grew out of Holly's Street Life Project and continues his work around the world, has acquired the reprint rights to Social Life, with the intent of making it available to the widest possible audience and ensuring that the Whyte family receive their fair share of Holly's legacy.




From the forward:




For more than 30 years, Project for Public Spaces has been using observations, surveys, interviews and workshops to study and transform public spaces around the world into community places. Every week we give presentations about why some public spaces work and why others don't, using the techniques, ideas, and memorable phrases from William H. "Holly" Whyte's The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces.




Holly Whyte was both our mentor and our friend. Perhaps his most important gift was the ability to show us how to discover for ourselves why some public spaces work and others don't. With the publication of The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces and its companion film in 1980, the world could see that through the basic tools of observation and interviews, we can learn an immense amount about how to make our cities more livable. In doing so, Holly Whyte laid the groundwork for a major movement to change the way public spaces are built and planned. It is our pleasure to offer this important book back to the world it is helping to transform.

In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings, de Certeau draws brilliantly on an immense theoretical literature to speak of an apposite use of imaginative literature.

Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre's first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing the development of the urban environment. Although it is widely considered a foundational book in contemporary thinking about the city, The Urban Revolution has never been translated into English-until now. This first English edition, deftly translated by Robert Bononno, makes available to a broad audience Lefebvre's sophisticated insights into the urban dimensions of ???.

Review
“David Harvey provoked a revolution in his field and has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals.” (Naomi Klein )
“Harvey is a scholarly radical; his writing is free of journalistic clichés, full of facts and carefully thought-through ideas.” (Richard Sennett )
“Whose streets? Our streets! In Rebel Cities David Harvey shows us how we might turn this slogan into a reality. That task—and this book—could hardly be more important.” (Benjamin Kunkel, author of Indecision and a founding editor of N+1 )

Jeff Speck has spent his career determining what makes a city work, and he has boiled it down to one essential factor: walkability. For urban life to thrive, cities must prioritize pedestrians over cars. Six-lane highways tearing through downtown must give way to crossable streets, massive parking lots must give way to pedestrian plazas, architecture designed to be appreciated from afar must give way to welcoming buildings. Making all of this happen is relatively easy and cheap; seeing what needs to be done is the trick. Speck can show us the invisible workings underneath the city, how simple decisions have cascading effects, and how we can make the right decisions for our cities. Cities have been recognized as the key to sustainable living. But New York, San Francisco, Chicago, D.C. - these are not the next great American cities, and they are not where the future of urban life will be formed. Most Americans live in midsize cities - Lowell, Massachusetts; Tacoma, Washington; Grand Rapids, Michigan - that need downtowns that are vibrant and appealing; they need to feel like the urban hubs that they are. They need walkability. Bursting with sharp observations and real-world examples, giving key insight to what urban planners actually do and how cities can and do change, "Walkable City" lays out a practical, necessary, and eminently achievable vision of how to make our American cities work.

作者利用同乡之便，深入位于北京城乡结合部的“浙江村”全面深入地了解了“浙江村”的形成、结构、运作、变迁，用大量第一手的材料，描述了“浙江村”与周边村镇，政府部门，大中型国有商业企业的互动，分析了在深刻而巨大的社会变迁中，方方面面面临的危机和挑战以及他们的对策。
本书选材新颖、内容丰富、视角独特、涉及的问题既深且广，堪称有前中国改革开放二十年来触及社会和人民心理深层变革的佳作。

《正义、自然和差异地理学》作者试图从马克思主义哲学观念出发，在全球化背景下重新理解时间、空间和自然环境的基本概念，并立足于现代性来回应当代政治。

《城乡中国》内容介绍：中国虽然大，可以说只有两块地方：一是城市，一是乡村。中国的人口十几亿，也可以说只有两部分人：一部分叫城里人，另外一部分叫乡下人。城乡中国深刻的分野，促使费孝通先生在20世纪40年代就写出他著名的《乡土中国》。
今天，虽然中国的经济飞速发展，可是城乡之间依然有着巨大的差距，甚至鸿沟越来越大，导致中国发展中的大多数重点难点，都在农村，都在城乡之间。周其仁教授在《城乡中国》中指出，没有农村、农业和农民状况的根本改善，国民经济是搞不起来的。因此，近年来关于城镇化的讨论始终不绝于耳，成为政府、大众、舆论、专家学者热议的焦点问题。
5年来，周其仁教授及其同人陆续以实地调研的形式，深入调查了中国很多地方城乡的情况，在《城乡中国》一书中，将城乡之间这些差异形成的原因、后果以及可能的解决办法娓娓道来，试图增加对中国社会和经济的认识，找出沸沸扬扬的城镇化改革的症结，消除城乡之间的巨大分隔。也期望让更多的读者通过《城乡中国》了解和思考今日的中国和未来的发展，找到新的经济和社会发展的契机和触发点。

上海近代建筑是上海近代城市文化的一个重要组成部分，上海近代建筑在中国近代建筑史书上占有极其重要的一页。《上海百年建筑史1840-1949》试图从政治、经济、社会和文化等方面人手，探索上海近代建筑形成与发展的动因，寻求上海近代建筑的演变轨迹。《上海百年建筑史1840-1949》对近代上海各时期的建筑技术发展、建筑师及其建筑设计思想和建筑中表现出的风格特征进行了全面的考察和论证，并将寻其置于世界近代建筑史的大背景与上海近代史的大环境中进行了深入的分析与研究，其目的是试图展示一部较为完整，较为全面，也较为系统的上海近代建筑史，可供建筑、规划和历史研究人员及广大建箭罟好者阅读参考。

石峁遗址位于陕西省神木县高家堡镇石峁村的秃尾河北侧山峁上，地处陕北黄土高原北部边缘。近年来的区域系统考古调查和考古勘探、发掘确认了石峁遗址由“皇城台”、内城、外城三座基本完整并相对独立的石构城址组成，是中国已发现的龙山晚期到夏代早期规模最大的城址。陕西省考古研究院等编著的《发现石峁古城》分为三部分，分别为考古发现成果、研究成果、大事记，比较全面的展示了石峁遗址从1976年发现以来学界对于石峁遗址的深刻认识以及近年来考古发掘的重大收获。

明明是一部极其严肃的文学批评专著，有时候却更像一本书写上海的颓废放荡的小说，或者像一篇妖艳华丽的散文，厚重的文字铺展开来又形成一张时空错落的文化地图，将上海这座城市在大时代中悲情传奇的命运细细勾画出来。
李欧梵精彩重塑摩登上海的文化肖像，并由此奠定其在文化研究领域的先锋地位。

全书分三部分，以中德对照形式，介绍一位被遗忘的奥地利修士画家，试图阐明他在中国艺术史上的地位。
第一部分介绍白立鼐的生平。白立鼐在中国生活了26年，曾在北京辅仁大学任教16年。他是中国知名画家陈缘督、陆鸿年、王肃达等人的导师和朋友，在很多方面帮助或影响了这些中国的年轻画家。他甚至还在北京沦陷期间，机智地营救被日军抓捕的中国教授。
第二部分是白立鼐1948年底至1949年离开北京前后的日记。日记忠实记录了白立鼐的当时的处境和复杂心情。
第三部分是白立鼐的画。书中收录了117幅原本封存在奥地利圣佳伯尔的白立鼐画作，其中，素描画37幅，水彩画27幅，人像22幅，静物17幅，其他无归类14幅。这些画作表现出了画家很明显的个人气质：宁静、平和和朴素的美。
书中还收录了8幅高清珍贵历史照片，如白立鼐与辅仁大学校长陈垣等人的合影等。

《元大都规划复原研究》是元史和元大都研究领域里第一部系统论证元大都帝京规制 “准五重城”规划的专著。本书对元大都规划的传统主流观点进行剖析和质疑，首次指出元大都规划主流观点基本属于没有进行过实证研究，即没有学术支撑的推测观点；本书运用“六重证据法”对元大都宫城、皇城、大城及中轴线的空间规划与主要建筑进行实证研究，就元里制里长和尺长、宫城与大内御苑的空间位置、双重夹垣规制、帝京规制重城规划、中轴线序列、大城城墙和居民宅院的规划及其模数等问题，提出了一系列新观点，得到元史、建筑史、城市史、地图史、北京史、元大都等学科研究权威和考古、古建专家的高度肯定：认为本书提出和论证的一系列新观点，是对传统主流观点的修正和补充，确有超越学术前辈的独到之处；是元大都规划研究领域里的一部观点创新、理论创新、研究方法创新的力作；是对元史和元大都研究、对中国古代都城制度史和北京城变迁史研究做出学术贡献的难得的研究成果；认为本书运用的“六重证据法”是在研究方法论上的独创，对研究其它古都、古城规划提供了方法论的借鉴；认为本书在论证过程中体现出的“求真辨误”的学术精神，在当今学术界是十分难得的。

作者进行的是专业视角的“公共话语”表述，主要涉及对世界历史文化名城保护历史的叙述，尤其是20世纪现代观念主导下的城市再造历史反思，认为20世纪是对历史名都进行大规模“破坏”的世纪，其中罗马的历史、经验与教训最值得强调和总结。也就是说目前在世界范围内进行的现代化，甚至现代城市保护运动，在许多方面实际上是在破坏这些历史城市的历史资源，而城市的更新实在是一项异常艰巨的工作，所谓成功的发达国家，也没有“成功”的经验。
全书分“保护伦理的觉醒”、“城市中保护的文化”和“保护伦理的扩展”三个部分，分别从现代都市保护理念产生的历史、现状分析和成功个案分析等角度，对22座世界著名历史城市进行了多视角、全方位的观察和研究。