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The form of cities : political economy and urban design / Alexander R. Cuthbert.

By: Cuthbert, Alexander RContributor(s): Wiley InterScience (Online service)Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006Description: 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780470774915; 0470774916; 9780470777527; 0470777524Subject(s): City planning | City planning -- Philosophy | Cities and towns -- Philosophy | Design urbain | Urbanisme -- Philosophie | Villes -- Philosophie | POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning | Cities and towns -- Philosophy | City planning | City planning -- Philosophy | Design urbain | Urbanisme -- Philosophie | Villes -- PhilosophieGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Form of cities.DDC classification: 307.1/216 LOC classification: HT166 | .C885 2006ebOnline resources: Wiley Online Library

Contents:

History -- Philosophy -- Politics -- Culture -- Gender -- Environment -- Aesthetics -- Typologies -- Pragmatics.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-290) and index.

History -- Philosophy -- Politics -- Culture -- Gender -- Environment -- Aesthetics -- Typologies -- Pragmatics.

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.

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