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Why Cities Look the Way They Do (Paperback)
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Why Cities Look the Way They Do (Paperback)
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List price R561
Loot Price R518
Discovery Miles 5 180
You Save R43 (8%)
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We tend to think cities look the way they do because of the
conscious work of architects, planners and builders. But what if
the look of cities had less to do with design, and more to do with
social, cultural, financial and political processes, and the way
ordinary citizens interact with them? What if the city is a process
as much as a design? Richard J. Williams takes the moment
construction is finished as a beginning, tracing the myriad
processes that produce the look of the contemporary global city.
This book is the story of dramatic but unforeseen urban sights: how
financial capital spawns empty towering skyscrapers and
hollowed-out ghettoes; how the zoning of once-illicit sexual
practices in marginal areas of the city results in the reinvention
of culturally vibrant gay villages; how abandoned factories have
been repurposed as creative hubs in a precarious postindustrial
economy. It is also the story of how popular urban cliches and the
fictional portrayal of cities powerfully shape the way we read and
see the bricks, concrete and glass that surround us.
Thought-provoking and original, Why Cities Look the Way They Do
will appeal to anyone who wants to understand the contemporary
city, shedding new light on humanity's greatest collective
invention.
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