By Paul L. Knox, Peter J. Taylor
ISBN-10: 0511522193
ISBN-13: 9780511522192
ISBN-10: 0521481651
ISBN-13: 9780521481656
ISBN-10: 0521484707
ISBN-13: 9780521484701
The dominating impact of a comparatively small variety of towns has characterised the shift to a extra international economic climate through the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties. Eighteen unique essays hence study the character, calls for and relationships of worldwide towns resembling big apple, Tokyo and London.
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This book, stunningly illustrated with black-and-white photographs by Phil Sayer, is in a class by itself. Leonie Sandercock compares Sudjik's writing to Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, Marshall Berman, and Alike Davis, all of them, of course, largely from outside the academy: His central argument is the by now familiar view that the world cities are inextricably linked as a single system, one which demands sharper competition between them. And it is property developers, not planners or architects, who are primarily responsible for the shape and appearance of today's cities.