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

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