Many Urbanisms - Martin J. Murray

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Résumé :
Martin J. Murray offers a groundbreaking guide to the multiplicity, heterogeneity, and complexity of contemporary global urbanism. He identifies and traces four distinct pathways that characterize cities today.

Biographie:
Martin J. Murray

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Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Rethinking Global Urbanism at the Start of the Twenty-First Century
Part I. Conventional Urban Theory at a Crossroads
1. The Narrow Preoccupations of Conventional Urban Studies
2. The Universalizing Pretensions of Mainstream Urban Studies: Generic Cities and the Convergence Thesis
Part II. Trajectories of Global Urbanism at the Start of the Twenty-First Century: A First Approximation
3. Globalizing Cities with World-Class Aspirations: The Emergence of the Postindustrial Tourist-Entertainment City
4. Struggling Postindustrial Cities in Decline
5. Sprawling Megacities of Hypergrowth: The Unplanned Urbanism of the Twenty-First Century
6. Building Cities on a Grand Scale: The Instant Urbanism of the Twenty-First Century
Part III. The Future of Urbanism
7. Conclusion: Urban Futures
Notes
Bibliography
Index