The Urban Condition

by Brendan Gleeson

Book Overview

This book will speak to the new human epoch, the Urban Age. A majority of humanity now lives for the first time in cities. The city, the highest invention of the modern age, is now the human heartland. And yet the same process that brought us the city and its wonders, modernisation, has also thrown up challenges and threats, especially climate change, resource depletion, social division and economic insecurity. This book considers how these threats...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138905070
• ISBN13: 9781138905078
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"