Welcome to the urban revolution : how cities are changing the world / Jeb Brugmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brugmann, Jeb, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization.

Cities and towns--Growth.

Cities and towns.

City planning.

Urban policy.

Physical Description:

x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2009.

Contents:

Look again : a view from the expanding edge of the global city

The improbable life of an urban patch : deciphering the hidden logic of global urban growth

The great migration : the rise of homo urbanis

Anatomy of urban revolution : the inevitable democracy of the city

The tyrants' demise : the irrepressible economics of urban association

What we can learn from the way that migrants build their cities : buildings, city models, and citysystems

The final phase : two billion new city dwellers in search of a new urbanism

Cities of crisis : sources of global vulnerability

Great opportunities cities : stuck in negotiation

A planet transformed : urban ecosystem or global dystopia?

The strategic city : from global burden to global solution

Designing the ecosystem : a new city rises on the Serra do Mar plateau

Building local culture : reclaiming the streets of Gràcia District, Barcelona

Governing the entrepreneurial city : local markets and the resurgence of Chicago

Cocreating the citysystem : toward a world of urban regimes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-330) and index.

ISBN:

9781596915664

1596915668

OCLC:

273818505