Urbanism of Exception

The Urbanism of Exception: The Dynamics of Global City Building in the Twenty-First Century Murray Martin J. (University of Michigan Ann Arbor) Wydawca: Cambridge University Press Data wydania: 2017 ISBN: 9781316620526 Liczba stron: 416 Format: 154 x 228 x 25 Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: This book challenges the conventional understanding of cities not only as bounded spaces with a coherence all of their own but also urbanization as a universal process along a linear pathway toward a common end-point. Increasingly, urbanizing processes on a global scale have produced distended urban regions that resemble assemblages of enclosed enclaves and discontinuous zones.