Welcome to the urban revolution : how cities are changing the world /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Press,
2010, c2009.
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| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Look again : a view from the expanding edge of the global city
- The improbable life of an urban patc : deciphering the hidden logic of global urban growth
- The great migration : the rise of homo urbanis
- Anatomy of urban revolution : the inevitable democracy of the city
- The tyrants' demise : the irrepressible economics of urban association
- What we can learn from the way that migrants build their cities : buildings, city models, and citysystems
- The final phase : two billion new city dwellers in search of a new urbanism
- Cities of crisis : sources of global vulnerability
- Great opportunities cities : stuck in negotiation
- A planet transformed : urban ecosystem or global dystopia?
- The strategic city : from global burden to global solution
- Designing the ecosystem : a new city rises on the Serra do Mar plateau
- Building local culture : reclaiming the streets of Gràcia District, Barcelona
- Governing the entrepreneurial city : local markets and the resurgence of Chicago
- Cocreating the citysystem : toward a world of urban regimes.