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The 21st century will be the century of multicultural cities, of the struggle for equality and diversity and the struggle against fundamentalism. This text presents a global tour of contemporary cities - from Birmingham to Rotterdam, Frankfurt to Berlin, Sydney to Vancouver, and Chicago to East St.Louis.
| ISBN | 0826464637 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9780826464637
(What's this?) | | Pages | 288 | | Publisher | Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | Mansell Publishing | | Weight (grammes) | 553 | | Format | Paperback | | Published in | London | | Publication date | 06 Nov 2003 | | Height (mm) | 156 | | Non-book description | book | | Width (mm) | 234 | | Library of Congress | 2004273666 | | Spine width (mm) | 19 | | DEWEY | 307.1216 | | Academic level | Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | Acknowledgements | | | | | | Preface | | | | | | Introduction: A Love song To Our Mongrel Cities | | 1 | | 1 | | Modernist Cities and Planning: Oh What a Lovely Paradox! | | 13 | | 2 | | Rewriting Planning History: Official and Insurgent Stories | | 37 | | 3 | | Who Knows? Exploring Planning's Knowledges | | 59 | | 4 | | Mongrel Cities: How Can We Live Together? | | 85 | | 5 | | Home, Nation, and Stranger: Fear in the City | | 107 | | 6 | | There is No Hiding Place: Integrating Immigrants | | 127 | | 7 | | Transformative Planning Practices: How and Why Cities Change | | 157 | | 8 | | The Power of Story in Planning | | 181 | | 9 | | City Songlines: A Planning Imagination For the 21st Century | | 207 | | | | Notes | | 231 | | | | References | | 241 | | | | Index | | 259 |
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