Cities by Design: The Social Life of Urban Form - Couverture souple

Tonkiss, Fran

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745648983 ISBN 13 : 9780745648989

Editeur : Polity, 2013

Synopsis

Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in their design? This book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process and examines the close relationship between the social and physical shaping of urban environments. With cities taking a growing share of the global population, urban forms and urban experience are crucial for understanding social injustice, economic inequality and environmental challenges. Current processes of urbanization too often contribute to intensifying these problems; cities, likewise, will be central to their solution. Focusing on a range of cities in developed and developing contexts, Cities by Design highlights major aspects of contemporary urbanization: urban growth, density and sustainability; inequality, segregation and diversity; informality, environment and infrastructure. Offering keen insights into how the shaping of our cities is shaping our lives, Cities by Design provides a critical exploration of key issues and debates that will be invaluable to students and scholars in sociology and geography, environmental and urban studies, architecture, urban design and planning.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Fran Tonkiss is Reader in Sociology and Director of the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is author, among other books, of Space, The City and Social Theory (Polity, 2005), and Market Society: Markets and Modern Social Theory (Polity, 2001, with Don Slater), and is managing editor of Economy and Society and former editor of the British Journal of Sociology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745648983
• ISBN 13: 9780745648989
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
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