Urban Transformations: Power, People and Urban Design - Softcover

Bentley, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415128242 ISBN 13: 9780415128247

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

Cities affect every person's life, yet across the traditional divides of class, age, gender and political affiliation, armies of people are united in their dislike of the transformations that cities have undergone in recent times. The physical form of the urban environment is not a designer add-on to 'real' social issues; it is a central aspect of the social world. Yet in many people's experience, the cumulative impacts of recent urban development have created widely un-loved urban places. To work towards better-loved urban environments, we need to understand how current problems have arisen and identify practical action to address them.
Urban Transformations examines the crucial issues relating to how cities are formed, how people use these urban environments and how cities can be transformed into better places. Exploring the links between the concrete physicality of the built environment and the complex social, economic, political and cultural processes through which the physical urban form is produced and consumed, Ian Bentley proposes a framework of ideas to provoke and develop current debate and new forms of practice.

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Ian Bentley

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415128242
• ISBN 13: 9780415128247
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 298