Atlas of Cities

Herausgegeben von Knox, Paul; Mitarbeit: Florida, Richard

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

More than half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to three-quarters by 2050. Urbanization is a global phenomenon, but the way cities are developing, the experience of city life, and the prospects for the future of cities vary widely from region to region. The Atlas of Cities presents a unique taxonomy of

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• With a Foreword by Richard Flo edition
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 287mm x 230mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1628g
• ISBN-13: 9780691157818
• ISBN-10: 0691157812
• Artikelnr.: 40817931

Autorenporträt

Paul Knox is University Distinguished Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning and codirector of the Global Forum on Urban and Regional Resilience at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His many books include Palimpsests: Biographies of 50 City Districts, Cities and Design, and Urban Social Geography.

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"The Atlas of Cities is a major contribution to our understanding of the place of cities in today's world. This is a new type of map. It does what words alone cannot do; it makes visible the thick patterns that are cutting across old divides."--Saskia Sassen, Columbia University and author of Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy