Cosmopolis II
Subtitle: mongrel cities in the 21st century
By: Leonie Sandercock ; images by Peter Lyssiotis
Contributors: Lyssiotis, Peter
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: City planning; Multiculturalism; Sociology, Urban; Pluralism (Social sciences)
Other titles: Cosmopolis 2; Cosmopolis two; Mongrel cities in the 21st century
Description: The 21st century will be the century of multicultural cities, of the struggle for equality and diversity and the struggle against fundamentalism. Cosmopolis II presents a truly global tour of contemporary cities - from Birmingham to Rotterdam, Frankfurt to Berlin, Sydney to Vancouver, and Chicago to East St. Louis. Passionately written and superbly illustrated with a range of specially commissioned images, Cosmopolis II is a visionary book of our urban future
Notes: "Began as a second edition of Towards cosmopolis, but ... became a new book"--P. [xi]

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-257) and index