Shaping the city

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"Taking on the key issues in urban design, Shaping the City 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. The book serves as both a textbook for classes in urban design, planning and theory and is also attractive to the increasing interest in urbanism by scholars in other fields. Shaping the City provides an essential overview of the range and variety of urbanisms and urban issues that are critical to an understanding of contemporary urbanism"--

subjects: City planning,  Case studies,  Urban Sociology,  Cities and towns,  Metropolitan areas,  History,  Cities and towns, history,  Sociology, urban,  City planning, history,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography,  ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban,  POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development,  ARCHITECTURE,  Urban & Land Use Planning,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Human Geography,  Sociology,  Urban,  Architecture and Planning,  City planning--case studies,  Metropolitan areas--case studies,  Cities and towns--history,  Cities and towns--history--20th century--case studies,  Cities and towns--history--21st century--case studies,  Ht166 .s399 2003,  307.1/216

Times: 20th century,  21st century