ISBN:
9781000703665
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (321 pages)
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
307.76
Keywords:
Cities and towns-Growth
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Cities and towns-Growth
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Preface Obsessive Cartography -- Introduction -- Part 1 THE SPONTANEOUS CITY -- Chapter 1 Cities without Plans -- What Slime Mould Can Tell Us about City Growth -- You Canʼt Designate a Gay Village -- Four Phase Transitions -- Tokyo: The Efficient Yet Unplanned City -- Chapter 2 The Natural Town -- The Artificial Sand Dune -- Alexanderʼs Timeless Way of Building -- The Unplanned Indian Town -- Sanganer: From Shrine to Industrial Suburb -- Chapter 3 The Spontaneous Slum -- A Rate of Urbanisation Never Before Seen in the World -- Barrios, Shanty Towns, Kacchi Basti, Favelas and Slums -- The Slums of Guwahati -- Part 2 THE DESIGNED CITY -- Chapter 4 The Subtle Art of Masterplanning -- The Scottish System of Feuing -- Plot-based Development -- New Anzac-on-Sea to Almere -- Chapter 5 In Search of Nowhere -- The Invention of Utopia -- Starchitects and Masterplans -- Chapter 6 Cities from Scratch -- Masterplanning: The Largest of the Creative Arts -- The Gridded Masterplan -- Why Arenʼt There More Circular Masterplans -- St Petersburg: A Capital City Built to Order -- Chapter 7 Room to Expand -- A Job for Engineers -- The Building of Barcelona -- Chapter 8 Boulevards and Dictators -- A Very English Plan -- A Street of Granite in the Sky -- The Remodelling of Paris -- Welthauptstadt Germania -- Part 3 THE UNRULY CITY -- Chapter 9 The Terrifying Exploding City -- The 'Demographic Transition' -- Manchester: The First City to Explode -- Mumbai: The Continually Exploding City -- Chapter 10 The Incredible Shrinking City -- The Near Death of the City -- Samuel Brooks and the First Urban Exodus -- Reversing the Cityʼs Polarity -- Chapter 11 The Astounding Sprawling City -- Stemming the Tide -- From the Urban to the Suburban -- The Limits of Sprawl -- Part 4 THE CITY AND THE PLANNER.
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