Welcome to the urban revolution :how cities are changing the world /Jeb Brugmann.
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1st U.S. ed
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New York :
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Bloomsbury Press,
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2009
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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x, 342 p. :ill. ;25 cm
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مرجع به حساب نمي آيد
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-330) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Look again : a view from the expanding edge of the global city -- The improbable life of an urban patch : deciphering the hidden logic of global urban growth -- The great migration : the rise of homo urbanis -- Anatomy of urban revolution : the inevitable democracy of the city -- The tyrants' demise : the irrepressible economics of urban association -- What we can learn from the way that migrants build their cities : buildings, city models, and citysystems -- The final phase : two billion new city dwellers in search of a new urbanism -- Cities of crisis : sources of global vulnerability -- Great opportunities cities : stuck in negotiation -- A planet transformed : urban ecosystem or global dystopia? -- The strategic city : from global burden to global solution -- Designing the ecosystem : a new city rises on the Serra do Mar plateau -- Building local culture : reclaiming the streets of Grلacia District, Barcelona -- Governing the entrepreneurial city : local markets and the resurgence of Chicago -- Cocreating the citysystem : toward a world of urban regimes.