Main entry:

Marshall, Stephen, 1967-

Title & Author:

Cities design and evolution / Stephen Marshall.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2009.

Description:

xiii, 342 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, plans ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-330) and index.
Introduction -- Planning at the crossroads -- Understanding urbanism -- Learning from science and nature -- This book -- Cities, planning and modernism -- City planning -- Modernist city planning -- Post-modern urbanism -- Conclusions -- Articulating urban order -- Urban units -- Urban syntax -- The nature of urban order -- Conclusions -- The social logic of urban order -- Buildings -- Cities -- The streets -- Conclusions -- The kind of thing a city is -- Metaphors and models -- Emerging perspectives -- The city as ecosystem -- Conclusions -- Emergence and evolution -- Emergence -- Evolution -- Conclusions -- Emergent urban order -- Urban emergence -- Street patterns -- City forms -- Conclusions -- Cities in evolution -- The evolution of cities -- Modernism in evolution -- 21st century evolving urbanism -- Planning, design and evolution -- Creation, development or evolution -- Space, time and civics -- An evolutionist approach -- Conclusions -- Understanding cities and urbanism -- Implications for practice and research -- Reflections on evolution -- Beyond cities, design and evolution.
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Summary:

"Cities, Design & Evolution offers and engaging and original narrative that interprets planning philosophies from Modernism to New Urbanism, organic theories from Patrick Geddes to Le Corbusier, and evolutionary thinking from Charles Darwin to Richard Dawkins. The book develops a new evolutionary perspective that recognises both the 'designed' and 'organic nature of cities, and provides a rational and impetus for fresh approaches to urban planning and design."--Jacket

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ISBN:

9780415423298 (pb ; alk. paper)
0415423295 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning.
Cities and towns.
Cities
Villes.
cities.
Stadtplanung

Holdings:

Location: Library main 259545
Call No.: BIB 190455
Status: Available