UID:
almafu_9959327288102883
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780470774915
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0470774916
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9780470777527
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0470777524
Content:
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.
Note:
History -- Philosophy -- Politics -- Culture -- Gender -- Environment -- Aesthetics -- Typologies -- Pragmatics.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Cuthbert, Alexander R. Form of cities. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006 ISBN 1405116390
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1405116404
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.1002/9780470774915
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470774915
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470774915
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470774915
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