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Chasing World-Class Urbanism : Global Policy versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires /

Questions increasingly dominant urban planning orthodoxies and whether they truly serve everyday city dwellers. What makes some cities world class? Increasingly, that designation reflects the use of a toolkit of urban planning practices and policies that circulates around the globe. These strategies...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lederman, Jacob (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis [Minnesota] : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
Series:Globalization and community ; v. 30.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a city in transition
  • Turning to culture in times of crisis
  • New objects of government innovation : heritage, culture, and tourism
  • Becoming a historic center : the invention of San Telmo
  • Best practice in a transnational discourse community
  • Recentering the South : the creative, livable city
  • The production of value in a tourist market
  • Contested urban futures.