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008			180706s2015 enkab ob 001 0 eng d
020			_a9781315753065 _q(e-book : PDF)
020			_a9781317619901 _q(e-book: Mobi)
020			_a9781317619918 _q(e-book: ePub)
024	7		_a10.4324/9781315753065 _2doi
035			_a(OCoLC)958097833
050		4	_aHT165.5 _b.N69 2015
082	0	4	_a307.1216 _bN946
245	0	0	_aNow urbanism : _bthe future city is here / _cedited by Jeff Hou. [et al.].
264		1	_aAbingdon, Oxon ; _aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2015.
300			_a1 online resource (xiv, 313 pages)
505	0		_aIntroduction -- Situating -- Grounding -- Performing -- Distributing -- Instigating -- Enduring -- Afterword.
520			_a"After more than a century of heroic urban visions, urban dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment towers, and slums. The contemporary cities as we know are more often the embodiment of unexpected outcomes and unintended consequences rather than visionary planning. As an alternative approach for rethinking and remaking today's cities and regions, this book explores the intersections of critical inquiry and immediate, substantive actions. The essays inside recognize the rich complexities of the present city not as barriers or obstacles but as grounds for uncovering opportunity and unleashing potential. Now Urbanism asserts that the future city is already here. It views city making as grounded in the imperfect, messy, yet rich reality of the existing city and the everyday purposeful agency of its dwellers.Through a framework of situating, grounding, performing, distributing, instigating, and enduring, these essays written by a multidisciplinary group of practitioners and scholars illustrate specificity, context, agency, and networks of actors and actions in the re-making of the contemporary city"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aCity planning.
650		0	_aCities and towns.
700	1		_aHou, Jeffrey, _d1967-
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315753065 _zClick here to view.
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