Understanding the Urban
Cities are changing at a rate unparalleled since the industrial revolution and more than half the population of the world now lives in cities compared with less than a quarter in 1950. Construction is booming in and around cities, but the downside to these developments is that cities of the postindustrial world appear to have greater social divisions. Understanding the Urban examines the contemporary nature and possible futures of cities in a postindustrial and globalized world. Theoretical debates and empirical research from a range of disciplines are brought together to provide an understanding of cities both as complex systems and as the p…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-333-72428-6
- EAN: 9780333724286
- Produktnummer: 1694201
- Verlag: Red Globe Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 220 S.
- Masse: H22.5 cm x B14.2 cm x D1.9 cm 404 g
- Auflage: 4. A.
- Gewicht: 404
Über den Autor
DAVID BYRNE is Reader in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Durham. He has worked both as an academic and in community research and his main intellectual interest is in the development of complexity theory as a method of understanding the social world in order to change it.
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