Understanding the urban / by David Byrne

By:

Byrne, David

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Hampshire : Palgrave MacMillan, 2001.Description: ix, 220 pISBN:

9780333724286

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DDC classification:

307.76 BYR-U

Contents:

Contents : Introduction-- 1. The City at the Beginning of a New Millennium-- 2. The genesis and the implications of the Post-industrial city-- 3. Locality and Community : the significance of place-- 4. Grounding the Global : cities in a world system-- 5. The Divided City : the ecology of Postindustrial Places-- 6. Culture and the Urban : commodity, understanding and resource-- 7. The production and reproduction of the built environment.-- 8. Politics and governance in urban places-- Conclusion : the tranjectory of complex cities into the 21st century.

Summary: Cities are changing at a rate unparalleled since the industrial revolution and more than half the population of the world now lives in cities compared with less than a quarter in 1950.

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Includes bibliographical reference and index.

Contents : Introduction--
1. The City at the Beginning of a New Millennium--
2. The genesis and the implications of the Post-industrial city--
3. Locality and Community : the significance of place--
4. Grounding the Global : cities in a world system--
5. The Divided City : the ecology of Postindustrial Places--
6. Culture and the Urban : commodity, understanding and resource--
7. The production and reproduction of the built environment.--
8. Politics and governance in urban places--
Conclusion : the tranjectory of complex cities into the 21st century.

Cities are changing at a rate unparalleled since the industrial revolution and more than half the population of the world now lives in cities compared with less than a quarter in 1950.

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