The new century of the metropolis : urban enclave and orientalism / Tom Angotti.

Main entry:

Angotti, Thomas, 1941-

Title & Author:

The new century of the metropolis : urban enclave and orientalism / Tom Angotti.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Description:

xi, 198 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-189) and index.
The metropolis in the twenty-first century : problem or solution? -- Urban orientalism, planning and the metropolis of the "others" -- Urban and rural dependencies and divides -- Last chance for the urban village? The urban-rural divide and food sovereignty in India -- Orientalist roots : Palestine and the Israeli metropolis -- Lessons from twentieth century socialism : the USSR and China / Tom Angotti, Samuel Stein -- The free-market metropolis and enclave urbanism -- Latin America : enclaves, orientalism and alternatives -- New century, new ways of planning.

Summary:

The problems created by metropolitanization have become increasingly apparent. Attempts to limit growth, disperse populations and plan neighbourhoods have been largely unsuccessful. Strategies are needed to improve the world's major cities in the twenty-first century. Tom Angotti is fundamentally optimistic about the future of the metropolis, but questions urban planning's inability to integrate urban and rural systems, its contribution to the growth of inequality, and increasing enclave development throughout the world. Using the concept of 'urban orientalism' as a theoretical underpinning of modern urban planning grounded in global inequalities, Angotti confronts this traditional model with new, progressive approaches to community and metropolis. Written in clear, precise terms by an award-winning author, The New Century of the Metropolis argues that only when the city is understood as a necessary and beneficial acccompaniment to social progress can a progressive, humane approach to urban planning be developed.

ISBN:

9780415615099 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780415615105 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415615097 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0415615100 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning.
Urbanization.
Economic development Social aspects.
Urbanisation.
urbanization.
Stadtplanung
Verstädterung
Megastadt
Metropolregion

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283965
Call No.: BIB 222493
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available

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