Translating the city - Interdisciplinarity in ur

List of contents

1. Introduction,  2. Urban Translations,  3. Planning,  4. Order,  5. Nature,  6. Cultures,  7. Image,  8. Conclusion

Summary

The city is a highly fragmented, heterogeneous subject; those who study, analyze and question it make a use of a variety of disciplines and methods and have different areas of expertise. How is a dialogue built between heterogeneous urban contexts and urban researchers, architects, developers, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists? What capacity do concepts and methods have to travel from one context to another? How can they be transferred?

The strength of Urban Translations lies in its disciplinary and geographical comparison and dialogue on a global scale. It openly targets an international audience, bringing together leading researchers from a variety of disciplines (urban planning, sociology, architecture and anthropology) and presenting case studies from highly contrasting urban settings, including Rio de Janeiro, Mumbai, Cape Town, Dubai, Montreal, Geneva, Lisbon, Ljubljana and Berlin.

Product details

• Authors: Hossam (Lasur Aldy, Hossam Pedrazzini Aldy, Stephanie Vincent Geslin
• Assisted by: Hossam Aldy (Editor), Hossam (Lasur Aldy (Editor), Aldy Hossam (Editor), Yves Pedrazzini (Editor), Yves (LASUR Pedrazzini (Editor), Pedrazzini Yves (Editor), Stephanie Vincent-Geslin (Editor), Stéphanie Vincent-Geslin (Editor), Stephanie (LASUR Vincent-Geslin (Editor), Yafiza Zorro (Editor), Yafiza (LASUR Zorro (Editor), Zorro Yafiza (Editor)
• Publisher: EPFL Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.02.2015
• EAN: 9781138775398
• ISBN: 978-1-138-77539-8
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Sociologie urbaine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Kaufmann, Dubai, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Urban Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Urban & municipal planning, Human Geography, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Urban Theory, urban dynamics