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- Title
- Towards Cosmopolis : Planning for Multicultural Cities
- Author
- Sandercock, Leonie
- Publisher
- Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0471971987
- ISBN 13
- 9780471971986
- Item weight
- 1.314 pounds
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From Polis to Metropolis, men and women have continued to struggle to perfect our cities. Urban history presents a picture of grand ideals and devastating failures. Towards Cosmopolis explores why we have failed, and how we could succeed, in building an urban Utopia - with a difference.
Globalization, civil society, feminism and post-colonialism are the forces, ever shifting and changing our cities. We need a new vision to face such change. Sandercock pulls down the pillars of modernist city planning and raises in their place a new post-modern planning, a planning sensitive to community, environment and cultural diversity.
Towards Cosmopolis is illustrated with case material from around the world - which present 'a thousand tiny empowerments' of current planning practice - and with a superb range of specially commissioned images. This bold critique cuts to the heart of current debates about the future of our cities. It deserves a place on every citizen's shelf.
Globalization, civil society, feminism and post-colonialism are the forces, ever shifting and changing our cities. We need a new vision to face such change. Sandercock pulls down the pillars of modernist city planning and raises in their place a new post-modern planning, a planning sensitive to community, environment and cultural diversity.
Towards Cosmopolis is illustrated with case material from around the world - which present 'a thousand tiny empowerments' of current planning practice - and with a superb range of specially commissioned images. This bold critique cuts to the heart of current debates about the future of our cities. It deserves a place on every citizen's shelf.
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About the Author
Leonie Sandercock is Professor and Chair of the Department of Landscape, Environment & Planning at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
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