TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brugmann, Jeb
TI  - Welcome to the urban revolution : how cities are changing the world
SN  - 817223838X
U1  - 307.76 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Harper Collins Pub. India Pvt. Ltd.
KW  - Building materials
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - Cities and towns -- Growth
KW  - City planning
KW  - Politique urbaine -- Pays en voie de développement -- 1970-  -- Congrès
KW  - Croissance urbaine -- Pays en voie de développement -- 1970-  -- Congrès
N1  - CONTENTS Preface  ix Part I: The Urban Revolution 1. Look Again: A View from the Expanding Edge of the Global City  3 2. The Improbable Life of an Urban Patch: Deciphering the Hidden Logic of Global Urban Growth  17 3. The Great Migration: The Rise of Homo Urbanis  33 4. Anatomy of Urban Revolution: The Inevitable Democracy of the City  55 5. The Tyrants' Demise: The Irrepressible Economics of Urban Association  75 6. What We Can Learn from the Way That Migrants Build Their Cities: Buildings, City Models, and Citysystems  92 Part II: The City Adrift 7. The Final Phase: Two Billion New City Dwellers in Search of a New Urbanism  113 8. Cities of Crisis: Sources of Global Vulnerability  132 9. Great Opportunities Cities: Stuck in Negotiation  157 10. A Planet Transformed: Urban Ecosystem or Global Dystopia?  185 Part III: Strategy for an Urban Planet 11. The Strategic City: From Global Burden to Global Solution  201 12.  Designing the Ecosystem: A New City Rises on the Serra do Mar Plateau  214 13. Building Local Culture: Reclaiming the Streets of Gracia District, Barcelona  229 14. Governing the Entrepreneurial City: Local Markets and the Resurgence of Chicago  250 15. Cocreating the Citysystem: Toward a World of Urban Regimes  273 Acknowledgments  285 Notes  291 Index  331
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