Urban Futures. Critical Commentaries on Shaping the City
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Author(s): M. Miles and T. Hall (Eds)
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415266947
Format: softback
228pp
Price: £20.99
Review Date: 28 January 2003
Review: This book has two main aims. The first is to bring together perspectives from a range of subjects that share a focus on contemporary urban questions, taking the discussion beyond the limits of any single discipline. The second is to show the different ways in which cities are shaped, by juxtaposing material, and to emphasise that cities are more than mere accumulations of forms and spaces, and that the processes of their future determination are open to change as well as investigation. The book is in the form of a collection of essays with contributors contributing their points of view from their own specialist areas of research.. They are divided into four parts headed: framing, moving, practising and shaping.