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Intercultural Urbanism - City Planning from the Ancient World to the Modern Day (Paperback)
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Intercultural Urbanism - City Planning from the Ancient World to the Modern Day (Paperback)
Series: Just Sustainabilities
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Cities today are paradoxical. They are engines of innovation and
opportunity, but they are also plagued by significant income
inequality and segregation by ethnicity, race, and class. These
inequalities and segregations are often reinforced by the urban
built environment: the planning of space and the design of
architecture. This condition threatens attainment of wider social
and economic prosperity. In this innovative new study, Dean Saitta
explores questions of urban sustainability by taking an
intercultural, trans-historical approach to city planning. Saitta
uses a largely untapped body of knowledge—the archaeology of
cities in the ancient world—to generate ideas about how public
space, housing, and civic architecture might be better designed to
promote inclusion and community, while also making our cities more
environmentally sustainable. By integrating this knowledge with
knowledge generated by evolutionary studies and urban ethnography
(including a detailed look at Denver, Colorado, one of America’s
most desirable and fastest growing ‘destination cities’ but one
that is also experiencing significant spatial segregation and
gentrification), Saitta’s book offers an invaluable new
perspective for urban studies scholars and urban planning
professionals.
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