City making and urban governance in the Americas : Curitiba and Portland /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Irazábal, Clara
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2005]
Series:	Design and the built environment series.
Subjects:	City planning > Brazil > Curitiba. City planning > Oregon > Portland. Curitiba (Brazil) > Politics and government. Portland (Or.) > Politics and government.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Beyond the urban convergence/divergence debate : architecture and urbanism in a global urban context
Urban governance and citizen participation : definitions and models
Urban governance in comparative perspective : Curitiba and Portland
The politics of urban and regional development in Curitiba
The politics of urban and regional development in Portland
Gated and edge cities : community and alienation in Curitiba
Housing and growth management debates in Portland : conflicting planning views, contrasting architectural typologies
Architecture and image-making : invocations of tradition vs. critical transnationalism in Curitiba
Nike vis-à-vis Adidas : spatializing regional planning discourses in Portland's global corporate architecture.