The endless city, the urban age project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society, edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic
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The endless city, the urban age project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society, edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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index present
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non fiction
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The endless city
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bibliography
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edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic
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the urban age project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society
Table Of Contents
Introduction : Foreword / Wolfgang Nowak -- The urban age project / Ricky Burdett and Philipp Rode -- Theory, policy and practice / Deyan Sudjic -- Cities : The urbanization of the world / Edward Soja and Miguel Kanai -- New York City : Finding its nerve / Deyan Sudjic ; Behind the boom / Susan Fainstein ; An urban age in a suburban nation? / Bruce Katz and Andy Altman -- Shanghai : The speed and the friction / Deyan Sudjic ; The urban laboratory / China's new revolution / Xiangming Chen -- London : Governing the ungovernable / Deyan Sudjic ; The capital of suburbia / Ricky Burdett ; Towards a Europe of cities / Tony Travers ; The European city model / Joan Clos -- Mexico City : Back from the brink / Deyan Sudjic ; After the explosion / Jose Castillo ; Makeshift globalization / Nestor Canclini -- Johannesburg : The view from outside / Deyan Sudjic ; Recovering from apartheid / Lindsay Bremner ; African urbanism / Carolin Kihato --^Berlin : Looking for a new future / Deyan Sudjic ; The stunted metropolis ; The German system / Dieter Lapple -- Data: a statistical analysis of the six urban age cities -- Issues : Seeing like a city / Saskia Sassen ; The open city / Richard Sennett ; Designing government / Gerald Frug ; Politics, power, cities / Enrique Penalosa ; In search of authenticity / Rem Koolhaas ; The particular and the generic / Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron ; The death and life of the urban office / Frank Duffy ; How roads kill cities / Hermann Knoflacher, Philipp Road and Geetam Tiwari ; Informality and its discontents / Geetam Tiwari ; Confronting fear / Sophie Body-Gendrot ; At home in the city / Anne Power ; Towards a carbon neutral London / Nicky Gavron ; Sustainable cities / Guy Battle ; A taxonomy of towers / Alejandro Zaera-Polo -- Interventions : From theory into practice : an exploration of 20 projects demonstrating new urban thinking in the six urban age cities / Sarah Ichioka --^Positions : An agenda for the urban age / Bruce Katz, Andy Altman and Julie Wagner ; Urban age glossary
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