Main entry:

Sandercock, Leonie, 1949- author.

Title & Author:

Towards cosmopolis : planning for multicultural cities / Leonie Sandercock ; images by Peter Lysiottis.

Publication:

Chichester, England ; New York : J. Wiley, 1998.

Description:

258 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-250) and index.
Theoretical Airings. -- A Death Foretold: A Chronicle of Modernist Planning. -- Re/presenting Planning's Histories. -- Exploring Planning's Knowledges. -- The Difference that Theory Makes. -- Voices from the Borderlands: The Theory that Difference Makes. -- Groundings: Insurgent Practices. -- Insurgent Practices: "A Thousand Tiny Empowerments." POSTMODERN POSSIBILITIES: COSMOPOLIS AND PLANNING. -- Towards Cosmopolis: A Postmodern Utopia. -- Planning for Cosmopolis: A New Paradigm.

Summary:

From Polis to Metropolis, men and women have continued to struggle to perfect our cities. Urban history presents a picture of grand ideals and devastating failures. Towards Cosmopolis explores why we have failed, and how we could succeed, in building an urban Utopia - with a difference. Globalization, civil society, feminism and post-colonialism are the forces, ever shifting and changing our cities. We need a new vision to face such change. Sandercock pulls down the pillars of modernist city planning and raises in their place a new post-modern planning, a planning sensitive to community, environment and cultural diversity.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description
Table of Contents

ISBN:

0471971979 (hardcover)
9780471971979 (hardcover)
0471971987 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780471971986 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

City planning.
Cultural pluralism.
Multiculturalism.
Cultural Diversity
Diversité culturelle.
Multiculturalisme.
multiculturalism.
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
Pluralistische Gesellschaft
Stadtplanung
Stadsplanning.
Multiculturele samenlevingen.
Sociology, Urban.
Cities and towns.
stedelijke planning
urban planning
ruimtelijke ordening
physical planning
stedelijke gebieden
urban areas
steden
towns
planning
cultuur
culture
socialisatie
socialization
sociale interactie
social interaction
interraciale relaties
race relations
nationaliteiten
nationalities
sociale relaties
social relations
gemeenten
municipalities
Urban Society
Stedelijke samenleving

Holdings:

Location: Library main 219104
Call No.: HT166 .S3 1998
Status: Available