Sustaining Cities: Urban Policies, Practices, and Perceptions

Herausgeber: Krause, Linda

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores what has happened to a selection of US metropolitan and smaller centres in the wake of the global economic recession. The nine essays look at such diverse topics as globalization and agriculture, public policies in modern cities, and corporate support in urban areas. Contributors examine how urban planners, architects, novelists, and filmmakers tap the unique and complex character of cities in response to economic, environmental, social, and political changes.

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Produktdetails

• New Directions in Internationa
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 231g
• ISBN-13: 9780813554150
• ISBN-10: 0813554152
• Artikelnr.: 36674250

Autorenporträt

LINDA KRAUSE is an associate dean and associate professor in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is a coeditor of Global Cities: Cinema, Architecture, and Urbanism in a Digital Age (Rutgers University Press).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
P A R T I
Sustainable City
Hostage Cities
Reframing Housing Value
P A R T I I
Notes toward a History of Agrarian Urbanism
The Art of Place-making
Beyond Boundaries
P A R T I I I
Chinese Cities
From “The Dead” to the Dead
Imagining and Reimagining a Promised Land
Notes on Contributors
Index