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Cities in the Urban Age

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Cities in the Urban Age

By Robert A. Beauregard

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About the book

We live in a self-proclaimed Urban Age, where we celebrate the city as the source of economic prosperity, a nurturer of social and cultural diversity, and a place primed for democracy. We proclaim the city as the fertile ground from which progress will arise. Without cities, we tell ourselves, human civilization would falter and decay. In Cities in the Urban Age, Robert A. Beauregard argues that this line of thinking is not only hyperbolic-it is too celebratory by half.For Beauregard, the city i...Show more

City and town planning: architectural aspects

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ISBN

9780226535241

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2018

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Cities in the Urban Age

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Hardcover

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