TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cuthbert,Alexander R.
ED  - Wiley InterScience (Online service)
TI  - The form of cities: political economy and urban design 
SN  - 9780470774915
AV  - HT166 .C885 2006eb
U1  - 307.1/216 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Malden, MA, Oxford
PB  - Blackwell Pub.
KW  - City planning
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Design urbain
KW  - Urbanisme
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Villes
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Regional Planning
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - rvm
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-290) and index; History -- Philosophy -- Politics -- Culture -- Gender -- Environment -- Aesthetics -- Typologies -- Pragmatics
N2  - The "Form of Cities" offers readers a considered theoretical introduction to the art of designing cities. It encourages them to go beyond abstract social science into the realm of human experience, aesthetics, and the creative process in order to understand why cities are how they are; and it demonstrates that cities are replete with symbolic values, collective memory, association, and conflict. The book reviews existing theoretical interpretations underpinning the subject and suggests a new understanding based in political economy. It then refines this approach, elaborating particular ways of conceptualising the city, whether through aesthetics or the prism of gender. The result is an engagingly written text, eschewing jargon but retaining a sophisticated interpretative edge
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470774915
ER  -