World cities, city worlds : explorations with icons, metaphors and perspectives /
"When living and working in cities, we need to make sense of them in order to get by. We must delve below their surface to understand what makes them tick and how we can best engage with them. This book argues that three tropes can help us: namely, metaphors, icons and perspectives. Metaphorica...
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| Language: | English |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2018.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Making sense of cities
- Living together : cities as communities
- Legacy : Venice past and present
- Conflict : cities as battlegrounds
- Transformation : Mumbai's many worlds
- Images and narratives : artists' cities
- Energy : novelty and excess in New York
- Transactions : cities as marketplaces
- Space and time : analysts' cities
- Metamorphosis : Tokyo's renewals and reinventions - Efficiency and order : cities as machines
- Variety : the contradictions of Paris
- Power : rulers' cities
- Modernity : Los Angeles' rise and fall
- Growth and adaptation : cities as organisms
- Getting by : city life
- Postscript : Cities as heaven and hell.
