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Fran Tonkiss - Cities by Design: The Social Life of Urban Form - 9780745648972 - V9780745648972
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Cities by Design: The Social Life of Urban Form

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Description for Cities by Design: The Social Life of Urban Form Hardback. Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? 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. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSG; JHB; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 444.

Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? 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 the solutions to such problems. Focusing on a range of cities in developed and developing contexts, Cities ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745648972
SKU
V9780745648972
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Fran Tonkiss
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 ... Read more

Reviews for Cities by Design: The Social Life of Urban Form
"She brings to the fore a wealth of research from design, planning, and development studies and offers for her own part a compelling view of urban form and place making that complicates common assumptions—in sociology and planning alike—about the nature of cities in the 21st century." American Journal of Sociology "A momentous work of uncommon intelligence and clarity that ... Read more

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