World cities and urban form
Subtitle: fragmented, polycentric, sustainable?
By: edited by Mike Jenks, Daniek Kozak and Pattaranan Takkanon.
Contributors: Jenks, M.; Kozak, Daniek.; Takkanon, Pattaranan.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415451840; 9780415451864
Subjects: City planning -- Case studies.; Cities and towns -- Growth -- Case studies.; Metropolitan areas -- Case studies.; Urban policy -- Case studies.; Sustainable development -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction : world cities and urban form / Mike Jenks, Daniel Kozak and Pattaranan Takkanon; value: What is a "world class" city? : comparing conceptual specifications of cities in the context of a global urban network / Ben Derudder and Frank Witlox; value: Globalisation and the forms of cities / Peter Marcuse; value: The world city hypothesis revisited : export and import of urbanity is a dangerous business / Darko Radovic; value: Sustainability and the "world class" city : what is being sustained and for who? / Judy Rogers; value: Polycentrism and "defragmentation" : towards a more sustainable urban form? / Mike Jenks and Daniel Kozak; value: Promoting sustainable urban form : implementing urban consolidation policies around the Helsinki metropolitan region / Olli Maijala and Rauno Sairinen; value: Spatial disparities based on human and social capital / Natasa Urbancikova and Oto Hudec; value: The model Barcelona : 1979-2004 and beyond / Jaume Carne and Aleksandar Ivancic; value: Sustainable "world class" cities and glocal sprawl in Southeast Asian metropolitans / Sidh Sintusingha; value: Quality of life and spatial urban forms of mega-city regions in Japan / Kiyonobu Kaido and Jeahyun Kwon; value: Global integration, growth patterns and sustainable development : a case study of the peri-urban area of Shanghai / Jiaping Wu; value: Taichung the waiting metropolis and its campaign towards a "world class" city : a case of glocollision, glocoalition or glocalisation? / Shih-wei Lo; value: "World class" Vancouver : a terminal city re-imagined / May So; value: Planning a "world class" city without zoning : the experience of Houston / Zhou Qian; value: Aspects of urban fragmentation; value: Assessing urban fragmentation : the emergence of new typologies in central Buenos Aires / Daniel Kozak; value: Tracking sustainable urban forms and material flows in Singapore / Perry Pei-Ju Yang; value: The right to the city : stakeholder perspectives of greater Cairo metropolitan communities / Wael Salah Fahmi; value: "World class" living? / Nuttinee Karnchanaporn and Apradee Kasemsook; value: Bangkok's struggle to achieve a successful transportation system / Wapen Charoentrakulpeeti and Willi Zimmerman; value: To be or not to be a "world class" city? : poverty and urban form in Paris and Bucharest / Oana-Liliana Pavel; value: Inner truth of the slums in mega cities : a scenario from India / Vijay Neekhra, Takashi Onishi and T. Kidokoro; value: Conclusion : the form of cities to come? / Mike Jenks, Daniel Kozak and Pattaranana Takkanon.