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Why Cities Look the Way They Do

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Why Cities Look the Way They Do

By Richard Williams

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

We tend to think cities look the way they do because of the conscious work of architects, planners and builders. But what if the look of cities had less to do with design, and more to do with social, cultural, financial and political processes, and the way ordinary citizens interact with them? What if the city is a process as much as a design? Richard J. Williams takes the moment construction is finished as a beginning, tracing the myriad processes that produce the look of the contemporary globa...Show more

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9780745691800

Publisher

Polity Press

Published year

2019

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1

Original title

Why Cities Look the Way They Do

Format

Hardcover

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