Taking on the key issues in urban design, Shaping the City examines the critical ideas that have driven these themes and debates through a study of particular cities at important periods in their development. As well as retaining crucial discussions about cities such as Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Brasilia at particular moments in their history that exemplified the problems and themes at hand like the mega-city, the post-colonial city and New Urbanism, in this new edition the editors have introduced new case studies critical to any study of contemporary urbanism – China, Dubai, Tijuana and the wider issues of informal cities in the Global South.

The book serves as both a textbook for classes in urban design, planning and theory and is also attractive to the increasing interest in urbanism by scholars in other fields. Shaping the City provides an essential overview of the range and variety of urbanisms and urban issues that are critical to an understanding of contemporary urbanism.

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Cover Page
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Abu Dhabi and Dubai – World City Doubles
2 Atlanta
3 Barcelona – Re-thinking Urbanistic Projects
4 Brasilia – City as Park Forever
5 Chicago – Superblockism: Chicago's Elastic Grid
6 Detroit – Motor City
7 Hong Kong – Aformal Urbanism
8 Los Angeles – Between Cognitive Mapping and Dirty Realism
9 New Orleans – Ecological Urbanism
10 Oslo – The Triumph of Zombie Urbanism
11 Philadelphia – The Urban Design of Philadelphia: Taking the Towne for the City
12 San Francisco – San Francisco in an Age of Reaction
13 San Diego/Tijuana – An Urbanism Beyond the Property Line
14 Shenzhen – Topology of a Neoliberal City
15 New Urbanism
Bibliography
Index

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