Student Problems Book to Accompany Engineering Mechanics: Statics

By I.C. Jong

From Polis to Metropolis, men and women have continued to struggle to perfect our cities. Urban history presents a picture of grand ideals and devastating failures. Towards Cosmopolis explores why we have failed, and how we could succeed, in building an urban Utopia with a difference. Globalization, civil society, feminism and postcolonialism are the forces, ever shifting and changing our cities. We need a new vision to face such change. Sandercock pulls down the pillars of modernist city planning and raises in their place a new postmodern planning, a planning sensitive to community, environment and cultural diversity. Towards Cosmopolis is illustrated with case material from around the world which present 'a thousand tiny empowerments' of current planning practice and with a superb range of specially commissioned images. This bold critique cuts to the heart of current debates about the future of our cities. It deserves a place on every citizen's shelf.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0030263123
• ISBN13: 9780030263125
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 11.0"