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This unique text looks at the history of the city by focusing on a series of critical issues in urban design that are exemplified by cities like Paris, London, New York, Berlin, Vienna and Chicago at particular times in the 19th and 20th centuries. Each author provides a case study highlightning partiular issues of design characteristic to that city. Eleven cities are(...)
Urban Theory
July 2003, New York / London
Shaping the city : studies in history, theory and urban design
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This unique text looks at the history of the city by focusing on a series of critical issues in urban design that are exemplified by cities like Paris, London, New York, Berlin, Vienna and Chicago at particular times in the 19th and 20th centuries. Each author provides a case study highlightning partiular issues of design characteristic to that city. Eleven cities are examined and chapters on the asian city, the new urbanism, the cybercity and utopia are also included. The panel of authors, each an acknowledged specialist in their chosen city, have provided a unique critique that will attract the attention of anyone with an interest in cultural geography and urban anthropology as well as students of architecture, urban design and planning.
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This publication examines the critical ideas that have driven these themes and debates through a study of particular cities at important periods in their development. As well as retaining crucial discussions about cities such as Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Brasilia at particular moments in their history that exemplified the problems and(...)
Shaping the city: studies in history, theory and urban theory
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$59.50
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This publication examines the critical ideas that have driven these themes and debates through a study of particular cities at important periods in their development. As well as retaining crucial discussions about cities such as Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Brasilia at particular moments in their history that exemplified the problems and themes at hand like the mega-city, the post-colonial city and New Urbanism, in this new edition the editors have introduced new case studies critical to any study of contemporary urbanism – China, Dubai, Tijuana and the wider issues of informal cities in the Global South.
Urban Theory