Synergicity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City [ebook ed.] 0252093933, 9780252093937

SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City proposes a new and invigorating vision of urbanism, architectural desig

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Synergicity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City [ebook ed.]
0252093933, 9780252093937

Richard Hu unpacks recent trends in urban planning and development to explore the making and imagining of the contempora

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Since the late 1970s, China has undergone perhaps the most sweeping process of urbanization ever witnessed. This is typi

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For decades, North American cities racked by deindustrialization and population loss have followed one primary path in t

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In The Sanctuary City, Domenic Vitiello argues that sanctuary means much more than the limited protections offered by ci

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In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new forms of urban land politic

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Sara Safransky explores how Detroit’s recent classification of over one-third of the city’s land as vacant or abandoned

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How does an urban community come to terms with the loss of its future? The former socialist model city of Hoyerswerda is

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How has American cinema engaged with the rapid transformation of American cities and urban culture since the 1960s? And

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In this volume, a group of international scholars examines the history of Singapore as a series of discontinuous and var

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Describes how water politics, cars and freeways, and immigration and globalization have shaped Los Angeles, and how inno

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