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City Making and Urban Governance in the Americas : Curitiba and Portland.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Irazábal, Clara
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2005.
Colección:Design and the built environment series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Dedication
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION: Local Spatiality in a Global World
  • 1 Beyond the Urban Convergence/Divergence Debate: Architecture and Urbanism in a Global Urban Context
  • PART I: Citizens and their City-States: A Governance Approach to Urban Development
  • 2 Urban Governance and Citizen Participation: Definitions and Models
  • 3 Urban Governance in Comparative Perspective: Curitiba and Portland
  • PART II: Governance and the Practices of Urbanism in the Americas (1960-2003): Curitiba and Portland
  • 4 The Politics of Urban and Regional Development in Curitiba
  • 5 The Politics of Urban and Regional Development in Portland
  • PART III: The Built Environment in the Era of Globalization: City Making and the (Re)production of Social and Spatial (In)equality in Curitiba and Portland
  • 6 Gated and Edge Cities: Community and Alienation in Curitiba
  • 7 Housing and Growth Management Debates in Portland: Conflicting Planning Views, Contrasting Architectural Typologies
  • 8 Architecture and Image-Making: Invocations of Tradition vs. Critical Transnationalism in Curitiba
  • 9 Nike vis-à-vis adidas: Spatializing Regional Planning Discourses in Portland's Global Corporate Architecture
  • EPILOGUE: Urban Governance and City Making in the Americas
  • Bibliography
  • Index.