The Inevitable Specificity of Cities

by Christian Diener

What is a city? What determines its specific city? What shapes its quality? The evolution of the contemporary city does not follow a linear movement. It is shaped by transformation processes that are directed toward often distant and conflicting goals. Even though cities are inscribed into global processes and networks, they develop their own specific ways of dealing with these conditions. They tend to produce and reproduce their own specific city,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3037783745
• ISBN13: 9783037783740
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.9" x 9.4"