Towards Cosmopolis Planning for Multicultural Cities

Name: Towards Cosmopolis Planning for Multicultural Cities
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ISBN: 9780471971986

ISBN-10: 0471971987

ISBN-13: 9780471971986

Edition: 1997

Authors: Leonie Sandercock

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The most important book on planning practice of the late 20th Century. It will set the terms of debate for years to come. Robert Beauregard The best contemporary text for teaching planning history and theory. It pushes theory and practice beyond its stubbornly modernist paradigms and into the new spaces opened by post-modern, post-colonial and feminist critiques. Edward Soja Sandercock draws on recent theoretical and political debates on gender, rate and sexuality as well as on grassroot struggles in the radically multiple cities of the late 20th Century to argue that planners have to find a way of building the new multicultural city, the Cosmopolis. Neil Smith A brilliant tour de force, an…

Book details

List price: $70.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/11/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 6.63" wide x 9.67" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English



Theoretical Airings


A Death Foretold: A Chronicle of Modernist Planning


Re/presenting Planning's Histories


Exploring Planning's Knowledges


The Difference that Theory Makes


Voices from the Borderlands: The Theory that Difference Makes


Groundings: Insurgent Practices


Insurgent Practices: "A Thousand Tiny Empowerments."


Postmodern Possibilities: Cosmopolis and Planning


Towards Cosmopolis: A Postmodern Utopia


Planning for Cosmopolis: A New Paradigm


Appendix


Endnotes


References


Index