Cosmopolis II

Zusatztext "A book of passion and conviction about how cities are and what they might become. It is a challenge to all those whose professions are bound up with shaping the world's urban future."--City Informationen zum Autor LEONIE SANDERCOCK is Professor of Urban Planning and Social Policy in the School of Community and Regional Planning at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Zusammenfassung This text presents a global tour of contemporary cities - from Birmingham to Rotterdam, Frankfurt to Berlin, Sydney to Vancouver, and Chicago to East St.Louis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part One: Looking Back: Modernist Planning and its Discontents 1) Modernist Cities and Planning 2) Rewriting Planning History 3) Who Knows?: Exploring Planning's Knowledges Part Two: Looking Forward: Mongrel Cities and the 21st Century Multicultural project 4) Mongrel Cities: How Can We Live Together? 5) Home, Nation and Stranger: Fear in the City 6) There is No Hiding Place: Integrating Immigrants Part Three: Towards a New Planning Imagination 7) Transfomative Planning Practices: How and Why Cities Change 8) The Power of Story Planning 9) City Songlines

Product details

• Authors: Leonie Sandercock, Sandercock Leonie
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2004
• EAN: 9780826464637
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-6463-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban communities, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Urban communities / city life