Title & Author:

The endless city : the urban age project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society / edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic.

Publication:

London : Phaidon, 2007.

Description:

510 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Published in collaboration with the London School of Economics.
First of three publications related to the "Urban Age" project. The other two publications are: "Living in the endless city" and "Shaping cities in an urban age".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Foreword / Wolfgang Nowak -- The urban age project / Ricky Burdett and Philipp Rode -- Theory, policy and practice / Deyan Sudjic -- Cities : The urbanization of the world / Edward Soja and Miguel Kanai -- New York City : Finding its nerve / Deyan Sudjic ; Behind the boom / Susan Fainstein ; An urban age in a suburban nation? / Bruce Katz and Andy Altman -- Shanghai : The speed and the friction / Deyan Sudjic ; The urban laboratory / Xiangming Chen ; China's new revolution / Xiangming Chen -- London : Governing the ungovernable / Deyan Sudjic ; The capital of suburbia / Ricky Burdett ; Towards a Europe of cities / Tony Travers ; The European city model / Joan Clos -- Mexico City : Back from the brink / Deyan Sudjic ; After the explosion / José Castillo ; Makeshift globalization / Néstor Canclini -- Johannesburg : The view from outside / Deyan Sudjic ; Recovering from apartheid / Lindsay Bremner ; African urbanism / Caroline Kihato -- Berlin : Looking for a new future / Deyan Sudjic ; The stunted metropolis / Franziska Eichstädt-Bohlig ; The German system / Dieter Läpple -- Data: a statistical analysis of the six urban age cities -- Issues : Seeing like a city / Saskia Sassen ; The open city / Richard Sennett ; Designing government / Gerald Frug ; Politics, power, cities / Enrique Peñalosa ; In search of authenticity / Rem Koolhaas ; The particular and the generic / Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron ; The death and life of the urban office / Frank Duffy ; How roads kill cities / Hermann Knoflacher, Philipp Rode and Geetam Tiwari ; Informality and its discontents / Geetam Tiwari ; Confronting fear / Sophie Body-Gendrot ; At home in the city / Anne Power ; Towards a carbon neutral London / Nicky Gavron ; Sustainable cities / Guy Battle ; A taxonomy of towers / Alejandro Zaera-Polo -- Interventions : From theory into practice : an exploration of 20 projects demonstrating new urban thinking in the six urban age cities / Sarah Ichioka -- Positions : An agenda for the urban age / Bruce Katz, Andy Altman and Julie Wagner ; Urban age glossary.

Summary:

"At the turn of the twenty-first century, the world is faced with an unprecedented challenge. It must address a fundamental shift in the world's population towards the cities, and away from mankind's rural roots. Over the course of two years, a group of internationally renowned professionals from a variety of different disciplines and backgrounds gathered together in six world cities to take stock of the new urban condition and to offer an approach to dealing with it. The result was a sometimes passionate, always challenging and informed debate on how architects, urbanists, politicians and policy makers can constructively plan the infrastructure and development of the endless city, to promote a better social and economic life for its citizens."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780714848204
0714848204
9780714859569 (pbk.)
0714859567 (pbk.)

Subject:

Berlin, ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Urbanization.
Urban policy.
City planning.
Globalization.
Cities and towns Growth.
Cities and towns Case studies.
City Planning
Villes Croissance.
Villes Études de cas.
Urbanisation.
Politique urbaine.
Urbanisme.
Mondialisation.
urbanization.
globalism.
urban planning.
urban areas.
towns.
land use.
globalization.
social classes.
social conditions.
sustainability.
Villes.
Cities and towns
Metropole
Stadtstruktur
Strukturwandel
Verstädterung
Städer tillväxt.
Urbanisering.
Stadsplanering.
Storstäder.
Globalisering.
Johannesburg
London
Mexiko
Schanghai

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Case studies

Added entries:

Burdett, Richard, editor.
Sudjic, Deyan, editor.
Burdett, Richard
Sudjic, Deyan
London School of Economics and Political Science.
Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft für Internationalen Dialog.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256042
Call No.: BIB 186328
Status: Available