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The art of city-making

Conventionally, city making is considered primarily in terms of architecture, engineering and land use planning, but this work offers new insights by integrating the arts of understanding human desires, bending the dynamics of economics to the city's needs and trading power for creative influence as aspects that create the city
Print Book, English, 2006
Earthscan, London, 2006
xviii, 462 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
9781844072453, 9781844072460, 1844072452, 1844072460
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Overture
The sensory landscape of cities
Unhinged and unbalanced
Repertoires to resistance
The complicated and the complex
The city as a living work of art
Creative cities for the world