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Living in 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.
Title & Author:

Living in 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 Press Ltd, 2011.

Description:

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

Notes:
"Since 2005, the London School of Economics and Duetsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society - together with maors, city planners, state governments, architects, scientists, community groups and committed local people - have studied growing, and in some cases shrinking, cities of the twenty-first century. The Endless city, published in 2007, described the outcome of the first two years of collaboration. This book ... covers the following three."--Foreword.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 414-416) and index.
Introduction : Foreword / Wolfgang Nowak -- Living in the urban age / Ricky Burdett and Philipp Rode -- The architecture of the endless city / Deyan Sudjic -- The economics of cities / Saskia Sassen -- Cities : Mumbai : Managed chaos / Deyan Sudjic ; Democracy and self-interest / K.C. Sivaramakrishnan ; A matter of people / Darryl D'Monte ; Looking for the bird of gold / Suketu Mehta ; The static and the kinetic / Rahul Mehrotra ; The long view / Charles Correa ; Beyond the maximum / Geetam Tiwari -- São Paulo : The urban giant / Deyan Sudjic ; Filling the political vacuum / Jeroen Klink ; The cultures of the metropolis / Gareth A. Jones ; Looking for a shared identity / José de Souza Martins ; Worlds set apart / Teresa Caldeira ; The mirage and its limits / Raul Juste Lores ; Living on the edge / Fernando de Mello Franco -- Istanbul : The city to big to fail / Deyan Sudjic ; Bridging histories / Ílhan Tekeli ; The hinge city / Richard Sennett ; It's Istanbul (not globalization) / Hashim Sarkis ; The violence of change / Asu Aksoy ; The contours of concrete / Ömer Kanipak ; Measuring success / Çaǧler Keyder -- Data : Vital statistics: nine cities compared ; Understanding the numbers / Justin McGuirk ; Understanding what people think / Tony Travers -- Reflections : Boundaries and borders / Richard Sennett ; No frills and bare life / Alejandro Zaera-Polo ; City solutions to global problems / Nicholas Stern, Dimitri Zenghelis and Philipp Rode ; Democracy and governance / Gerald E. Frug ; The urban earthquake / Anthony Williams ; Uneven landscapes / Sophie Body-Gendrot ; From utopia to youtopia / Alejandro Aravena ; Surviving in an urban age / David Satterthwaite ; Getting to work / Fabio Casiroli ; Facing the metro challenge / Bruce Katz ; On the ground / Adam Kaasa with Marcos Rosa and Priya Shankar.
Summary:

Examines the issues that affect cities in the 21st century through essays on Mumbai, São Paulo, and Istanbul by mayors, architects, urban planners, professors, and policy makers.

ISBN:

0714861189 (hbk.)
9780714861180 (hbk.)

Subject:

Cities and towns Growth.
Urbanization.
Urban policy.
City planning.
Globalization.
Villes Croissance.
Urbanisation.
Politique urbaine.
Mondialisation.
suburban growth.
urban sprawl.
urbanization.
globalism.
21.73 urban development (architecture)
74.72 urban planning.
71.14 urban society.
Society.
Großstadt
Zukunft
Verstädterung
Ballungsraum
Stadtentwicklung
Strukturwandel
Cities.
Urban development.
Internationalization.
Expectations for the future.
Stadt.
Urbanisering.
Stadsplanering.
Städer.
Globalisering.
URBANIZATION.
URBAN LAND POLICY.
URBAN PLANNING.
CITIES.
CAPITAL CITIES.
GLOBALIZATION.
Bombay
São Paulo
Istanbul
Mumbai.
So paulo (city)

Added entries:

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

Holdings:

Location: Library main 273227
Call No.: BIB 206737
Status: Available

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