Deciphering the CityAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 24 August 2004
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Well-written and extremely topical, Deciphering the City efficiently deals with the large and small issues facing cities today. A focus on globalizations impact on the role of cities, an explicit mission to drive home the applied nature of urban studies to students. This innovative text offers an exciting introduction to the history, issues, problems, potential solutions and challenges, facing cities-in the developed and the developing world-for the twenty-first century.
Globalization has changed the roles of cities in the global economy and this text begins with an introduction to the phenomenon of globalization, and how the changes it has brought about have affected the social, political, and economic institutions of societies. The second section of the text concentrates on the psychology of the city and the community-building process, while the books third section illustrates the structure of cities and their historical and emerging patterns. Deciphering the City makes studying the city a relevant and interesting subject necessary in understanding the functioning of todays world.
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