Description: Cities by DesignThe Social Life of Urban Form Author(s): Fran Tonkiss Format: Hardback Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom Imprint: Polity Press ISBN-13: 9780745648972, 978-0745648972 Synopsis 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 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.
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Book Title: Cities by Design
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Cities by Design: the Social Life of Urban Form
Language: English
Publisher: Polity Press
Item Height: 246 mm
Subject: Geography & Geosciences, Sociology
Publication Year: 2013
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 462 g
Subject Area: Urban Planning
Author: Fran Tonkiss
Item Width: 158 mm
Format: Hardcover
