Description: Further DetailsTitle: Many UrbanismsCondition: NewSubtitle: Divergent Trajectories of Global City BuildingISBN-10: 023120406XEAN: 9780231204064ISBN: 9780231204064Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 02/15/2022Description: Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleNow, for the first time in history, the majority of the world’s population lives in cities. But urbanization is accelerating in some places and slowing down in others. The sprawling megacities of Asia and Africa, as well as many other smaller and medium-sized cities throughout the “Global South,” are expected to continue growing. At the same time, older industrial cities in wealthier countries are experiencing protracted socioeconomic decline. Nonetheless, mainstream urban studies continues to treat a handful of superstar cities in Europe and North America as the exemplars of world urbanism, even though current global growth and development represent a dramatic break with past patterns.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: tourist-entertainment cities with world-class aspirations; struggling postindustrial cities; megacities experiencing hypergrowth; and “instant cities,” or master-planned cities built from scratch. Murray shows how these different types of cities respond to different pressures and logics rather than progressing through the stages of a predetermined linear path. He highlights new spatial patterns of urbanization that have undermined conventional understandings of the city, exploring the emergence of polycentric, fragmented, haphazard, and unbounded metropolises. Such cities, he argues, should not be seen as deviations from a norm but rather as alternatives within a constellation of urban possibility. Innovative and wide-ranging, Many Urbanisms offers ways to understand the disparate forms of global cities today on their own terms.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Martin J. MurrayGenre: Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Many Urbanisms
Title: Many Urbanisms
Subtitle: Divergent Trajectories of Global City Building
ISBN-10: 023120406X
EAN: 9780231204064
ISBN: 9780231204064
Release Date: 02/15/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Number of Pages: 392 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Many Urbanisms : Divergent Trajectories of Global City Building
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Social History, Sociology / Urban
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2022
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 27.2 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History
Author: Martin J. Murray
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
