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Handbook of Creative Citiesby David Emanuel Andersson; Ake E. Andersson; Charlotta Mellander
Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 60.00With the publication of The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida in 2002, the 'creative city' became the new hot topic among urban policymakers, planners and economists. Florida has developed one of three path-breaking theories about the relationship between creative individuals and urban environments. The economist A...ke E. Andersson and the psychologist Dean Simonton are the other members of this 'creative troika'. In the Handbook of Creative Cities, Florida, Andersson and Simonton appear in the same volume for the first time. The expert contributors in this timely Handbook extend their insights with a varied set of theoretical and empirical tools. The diversity of the contributions reflect the multidisciplinary... more...
Urban and Regional Change in Southern Africaby David W. Smith
Routledge 1992; US$ 220.00Why is Southern Africa more volatile than other developing regions? This book sets urban change in South Africa within its regional context, contrasting the impact that urbanization and political change has had in particular states. more...
Dynamics of Citiesby Dimitrios Dendrinos
Routledge 1992; US$ 278.00Drawing on recorded evidence, this book argues that simple, general and powerful macrodynamic processes guide the growth and decline of present day urban agglomerations, as well as cities of the past. more...
Cities Without Citiesby Thomas Sieverts
Spon Press 2003; US$ 55.95This book investigates the social, economic, environmental and formal characteristics of today's built environment. Providing a better understanding of this new type of urban form and argues for a change in planning sytems. more...
Apartheid City and Beyondby David M. Smith
Routledge 1992; US$ 61.95This book explains how apartheid changed South Africa's cities, how people responded to regain some control over urban life, and how the forces of urbanization held back under apartheid will affect the post-apartheid era. more...
Global Metropolitanby John Rennie Short
Routledge 2004; US$ 51.95This book explains the economic and social changes cities experience as they compete in a global world and explores how the discourse of globalizing has become a major narrative in the restructuring of cities around the world. more...
Cities and Consumptionby Mark Jayne
Routledge 2005; US$ 51.95Cities and Consumption investigates the mutual and dynamic relationship between urban development and consumption: how are cities moulded by consumption, how is consumption moulded by cities? more...
Remaking the Modernby Farha Ghannam
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95In an effort to restyle Cairo into a global capital that would meet the demands of tourists and investors and to achieve President Anwar Sadat's goal to modernize the housing conditions of the urban poor, the Egyptian government relocated residents from what was deemed valuable real estate in downtown Cairo to public housing on the outskirts of the city. Based on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork among five thousand working-class families in the neighborhood of al-Zawyia al-Hamra, this study explores how these displaced residents have dealt with the stigma of public housing, the loss of their established community networks, and the diversity of the population in the new location. Until now, few anthropologists have delivered detailed... more...
Unsettling Citiesby John Allen
Taylor & Francis 1999; US$ 67.95This text explores the mix of proximity and difference that exists in the rich and diverse texture of city life and reveals the association between the changing fortunes of cities and the power and influence of global networks. more...
Constructing Suburbsby Ann Forsyth
Taylor & Francis 1999; US$ 40.95Examining the debate between activists and professional planners over the vision of the future of a large growth corridor in Sydney, Australia, this case study maps the history of development from the late-1960s to the mid-1990s, during which time serious environmental and financial problems arose. more...