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Cities design and evolution /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marshall, Stephen, 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2009.
Subjects:
City planning.
Cities and towns.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Planning at the crossroads
  • Understanding urbanism
  • Learning from science and nature
  • This book
  • Cities, planning and modernism
  • City planning
  • Modernist city planning
  • Post-modern urbanism
  • Conclusions
  • Articulating urban order
  • Urban units
  • Urban syntax
  • The nature of urban order
  • Conclusions
  • The social logic of urban order
  • Buildings
  • Cities
  • The streets
  • Conclusions
  • The kind of thing a city is
  • Metaphors and models
  • Emerging perspectives
  • The city as ecosystem
  • Conclusions
  • Emergence and evolution
  • Emergence
  • Evolution
  • Conclusions
  • Emergent urban order
  • Urban emergence
  • Street patterns
  • City forms
  • Conclusions
  • Cities in evolution
  • The evolution of cities
  • Modernism in evolution
  • 21st century evolving urbanism
  • Planning, design and evolution
  • Creation, development or evolution
  • Space, time and civics
  • An evolutionist approach
  • Conclusions
  • Understanding cities and urbanism
  • Implications for practice and research
  • Reflections on evolution
  • Beyond cities, design and evolution.