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City making and urban governance in the Americas : Curitiba and Portland / Clara Irazábal.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Irazábal, Clara.
- Series:
- Design and the built environment series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--Brazil--Curitiba.
- City planning.
- City planning--Oregon--Portland.
- Curitiba (Brazil)--Politics and government.
- Curitiba (Brazil).
- Portland (Or.)--Politics and government.
- Portland (Or.).
- Oregon--Portland.
- Brazil--Curitiba.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 335 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2005]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-327) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754642534
- OCLC:
- 56825603
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