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.
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.
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
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
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