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Globalization, Modernity and the City.

Globalization, Modernity and The City weaves together broad social themes with detailed urban analysis to explore the connections between the rise of big cities, the creation of a global network and the making of the modern world. It explains the growth of big cities, the urban bias of global flows...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Short, John Rennie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Globalization, Modernity, and the City; Copyright; Contents; List of case studies; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; PART 1 Global generalities; 1 The Third Urban Revolution; 2 The Late Modern Wave of Globalization; 3 Metropolitan modernities; PART 2 Thematic specificities; 4 Urban spectaculars: World's Fairs and Summer Olympics; 5 Flânerie and the globalizing city; 6 Traffic, accidents and the modern city; 7 Modernity and urban utopias: the early Bauhaus; 8 Big city; PART 3 City particularities; 9 Alice Springs/Mparntwe: the postcolonial creative city. 
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