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Thick Space: Approaches to Metropolitanism

By Dorothee Brantz , Sasha Disko , Georg Wagner-Kyora

Book information

Publisher
Transcript-Verlag
Year
2012
ISBN
3837620433, 9783837620436
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11765945 bytes)
Series
Urban Studies
Pages
384\385
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2016-07-16 01:56:07
Urban & Land Use Planning;Architecture;Arts & Phot

Description

Could the concepts of »metropolitanism« and »thick space« aid our understanding of historical and contemporary urban change? Essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic provide interdisciplinary approaches to the complex dynamics of large-scale urbanization. The book opens with conceptual questions regarding the development of metropoles and metropolitan studies. The following sections provide analyses of the social, environmental, and cultural dimensions of metropolitan spaces from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective, such as the role of planning and urban parks, the impact of ethnic diversity and segregation, the place of cinematic visions or the centrality of infrastructures and architecture.

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