Over half the world's population live in cities and this proportion is set to grow rapidly. This text offers a toolkit of methods by which our cities can be revived and revitalised.
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"This book will have a lasting influence on the future quality of public open spaces. By helping us better understand the larger public life of cities, Life between Buildings can only move us toward more lively and healthy public places. Buy this book, find a comfortable place t…
"This book will have a lasting influence on the future quality of public open spaces. By helping us better understand the larger public life of cities, Life between Buildings can only move us toward more lively and healthy public places. Buy this book, find a comfortable place t…
This book shows that cities in the postcolonial world are producing novel forms of urbanism not reducible to Western models. An international cast of contributors focuses on the heavily urbanized world region of Southeast Asia to investigate the forms of urbanism germinating in …
This book seeks to understand how rapidly proliferating and resource-intensive urbanism affects everyday lived environments and the ecological processes that undergird them in Indian cities. Case studies on nature conservation in the city, urban housing and slum development, was…
In the electronic age, documents appear to have escaped their paper confinement. But we are still surrounded by flows of paper with enormous consequences. In the planned city of Islamabad, order and disorder are produced through the ceaseless inscription and circulation of milli…
