Future city
By: edited by Stephen Read, Jürgen Rosemann, and Job van Eldijk.
Contributors: Read, Stephen J.; Eldijk, Job van.; Rosemann, Jürgen.
Publisher: Spon Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Urbanization.; Cities and towns.; Cities and towns -- Forecasting.; Civilization, Modern -- 21st century.; City planning.; Social change.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction / Jürgen Rosemann; value: The form of the future / Stephen Read; value: From randstad to deltametropolis / Dirk Frieling; value: Remaking Johannesburg / Lindsay Bremner; value: The construction of Sydney's global image / Penelope Dean; value: Kuala Lumpur, an allegorical postmetropolis / Ramesh Kumar Biswas; value: The voids of Berlin / Andreas Huyssen; value: Mumbai : millennial identities / Jim Masselos; value: Capitalism and the city / Richard Sennett; value: Exit 'post' : the making of 'glocal' urban modernities / Erik Swynegdouw; value: Reading the city in a global digital age : between topographic representation and spatialized power projects / Saskia Sassen; value: Playing with information : urbanism in the twenty-first century / M. Christine Boyer; value: Los Angeles, cluster city / Kazys Varnelis; value: Amsterdam, beyond inside and out / Stephen Read; value: Local navigation in Douala / AbdouMaliq Simone; value: Hong Kong, the experienced city / Gary Chang; value: Belgrade, evolution in an urban jungle / STEALTH Group; value: Milan : urban footnotes / Stefano Boeri; value: Millennium tour / NEXT Architects.