Urban Theory and the Urban Experience
Subtitle: Encountering the City
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 23, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415245913
First sentence: When the distinguished American urbanist Lewis Mumford asked what is a city? - his focus was on the great renewal of urban society in Europe and the Western World from the tenth century onwards and, especially, the massive expansion in the number and size of cities since the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century.