"Desegregating the City takes a global, multidisciplinary look at segregation and the strengths and weaknesses of different antisegregation strategies in the United States and other developed count…
This is a book on a subject of great and urgent importance, upon which too little serious publication has appeared. Increas- ing and uncontrolled urbanization is causing fundamental and revolutiona…
This project has been fortunate in having great support from a number of institutions and individuals. We acknowledge the superb collaboration of the Menzies Centre ar King's College, London, for f…
When city planners and designers are given the ideal assignment--to build a new city in the wilderness, unencumbered by an existing urban matrix and, at the same time, the site is located in the mi…
The book Urban Place and Process investigates the dynamics of place and process in an urban context, combining theory with practice to understand the development of modern cities. The authors discu…
The purpose of the book is to describe in depth the local government of a selected group of the world's great cities, to consider the problems these vast communities are confronting, and what steps…
The purpose of the book is to describe in depth the local government of a selected group of the world's great cities, to consider the problems these vast communities are confronting, and what steps…
Development of the urban environment has to be planned and managed if the best use is to be made of the available land, financial resources, and building talent. The creation, redevelopment, or ext…
This book illustrates the effects of the urban environment on the production of culture. It covers music, art, writing, and deviant culture production from the perspective that the urban landscape …