Description
| Product ID: | 9780367501907 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Twenty-First Century Urbanism |
| Subtitle: | A New Analysis of the City |
| Authors: | Author: Rob Sullivan |
| Page Count: | 128 |
| Subjects: | City and town planning: architectural aspects, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Sociology, Human geography, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Sociology, Human geography, Urban & municipal planning |
| Description: | Twenty-First Century Urbanism provides planning and urban design academics and students with a multifaceted approach to understanding the development of cities, encouraging the examination of cities through a myriad, non-linear approach. This volume argues that the city cannot be captured by any one mode of analysis but instead is composed of the mobile, relational, efficient, sentient, and the phenomenological with all of them cast in new theoretical configurations and combined into one methodological entity. Rather than focusing on any one city or abstract analytical model, this book instead takes a multipronged theoretical and methodological approach to present the city as an intelligent affective organism – a sentient being. It proposes that cities operate on a relational, mobile, and phenomenological basis through the mode of efficiency, calibrated by a profoundly complicated division of labor. Its starting point is that the city is a mobile unit of analysis, from its economic status to its demographic makeup, from its cultural configuration to its environmental conditions, and therefore easily evades our quantitative and qualitative methods of computation and comprehension. Twenty-First Century Urbanism provides planning and urban design academics and students with a multifaceted approach to understanding the development of cities, encouraging the examination of cities through a myriad, non-linear approach. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-03-04 |
