Urban futures : critical commentaries on shaping the city

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Title:

Author:

Hall, Tim, 1968-

ISBN:

9780415266932

9780415266949

Publication Information:

New York : Routledge, 2003.

Physical Description:

vi, 228 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Contents:

1. Where the Thinking Stops, Time Crystallises ... / Jane Rendell -- 2. Differencing the City: Urban Identities and the Spatial Imagination / Dorothy Rowe -- 3. Strange Days / Malcolm Miles -- 4. Resistance or Security? Young People and the 'Appropriation' of Urban, Cultural and Consumer Space / Steven Miles -- 5. Prestige Projects, City Centre Restructuring and Social Exclusion: Taking the Long-Term View / Patrick Loftman and Brendan Nevin -- 6. Car-ceral Cities: Social Geographies of Everyday Urban Mobility / Tim Hall -- 7. What is Radical Architecture? / Iain Borden -- 8. Public Art: A Renewable Resource / Patricia Phillips -- 9. Landscape, Ecology, Art and Change / Tim Collins and Reiko Goto -- 10. Gentrification and Social Exclusion: Spatial Policing and Homeless Activist Responses in the San Francisco Bay Area / Anne R. Roschelle and Talmadge Wright -- 11. Shaping the Cultural Landscape: Local Regeneration Effects / Graeme Evans and Jo Foord.

12. Turbulent Prospects: Sustaining Urbanism on a Dynamic Planet / Nigel Clark.

Subject Term:

Cities and towns.

Sociology, Urban.

Urban geography.

Architecture and society.

Urban ecology (Sociology)

Added Author:

Hall, Tim, 1968-

Miles, Malcolm, 1950 June 6-

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Summary

Urban Futures brings together commentaries from a wide range of contemporary disciplines and fields relevant to urban culture, form and society. The book concerns cities in the broadest sense, not just as buildings and spaces, but also as processes and events or sites of occupation, in which meanings are constructed in many ways. The contributors draw on their specialist areas of research to inform current debate, but they also speculate as to how cities will be shaped in the 21st century.
Specific areas of research include homeless people's organisations and restoration ecology in brownfield sites in the USA, post-industrial urban landscapes, post-industrial economics, tourism and cultural planning. The book allows each writer to state their own conclusions, but together they suggest that tomorrow's cities will, while remaining locations of difference and contestation, be rapidly evolving systems in which dwellers assume increasing responsibilities and power.