Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order? (Studies in Urban and Social Change)

Marcuse, Marcuse:

ISBN 10: 0631212906 / ISBN 13: 9780631212904

Published by John Wiley & Sons, 2000

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340 Seiten Blackwell 2000 : Peter Marcuse - tb GY-AR41-PTD6 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 581.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order? (Studies in Urban and Social Change)
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631212906
• ISBN 13: 9780631212904
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Befriedigend
• Weight: 581 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sozialwissenschaft

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Synopsis

This exciting collection of original essays provides students and professionals with an international and comparative examination of changes in global cities, revealing a growing pattern of social and spatial division or polarization.

About the Author

Peter Marcuse is Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University in New York City. He has also taught at the University of California at Los Angeles, as well as universities in Johannesburg, Weimar, and Sao Paulo. He has been President of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, and a member of a Community Board in New York City. A lawyer as well as planner, he has written widely on comparative housing and planning issues.

Ronald van Kempen is Associate Professor of urban geography at the Urban Research Centre Utrecht at Utrecht University. His current research focuses on the links between spatial segregation, social exclusion and the development of cities. He has published widely on these subjects. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.