Jigsaw cities: Big places, small spaces - Brossura

Power, Anne

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ISBN 10: 1861346581 ISBN 13: 9781861346582

Casa editrice: Policy Press, 2007

Riassunto

This new book explores Britain's intensely urban and increasingly global communities as interlocking pieces of a complex jigsaw; they are hard to see apart yet they are deeply unequal.  Jigsaw Cities examines these issues using Birmingham, Britain's second city, as a model of pioneering urban order and as a victim of brutal Modernist planning.

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"Jigsaw Cities is pacy, punchy and powerful. Even if you don't agree with all of it you won't want to put it down. It's a timely challenge to current orthodoxy and an intelligent and controversial intervention in the debate about contemporary British urbanism. The authors are persuasive advocates for places that have been on the receiving end of misguided housing policies, for the excluded, for local solutions to local problems. Jigsaw Cities is a polemical and passionate analysis of what has been done to our some of our poorest urban neighbourhoods and how damaged communities can rebuild themselves." Richard Simmons, Chief Executive, Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, UK --Richard Simmons, Chief Executive, Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, UK

"In an increasingly urban world, the decisions we take now about how our cities are planned, developed and managed are fundamentally important to tackling the global environmental crisis we face. This book offers us a clear routemap towards greater urban sustainbility, examining how we can avoid repeating the mistakes of the past and develop socially inclusive, environmentally efficient and vibrant urban centres, fit for the 21st century." Paul King, Director of Campaigns, WWF-UK --Paul King, Director of Campaigns, WWF-UK

"At a moment of immense urban possibilities, Anne Power and John Houghton have delivered a roadmap for retrofitting British cities in a way that advances economic prosperity, promotes environmental sustainability and furthers social inclusion and opportunity. They move effortlessly from the macro to the micro, from vast city-regions to small neighborhoods, pragmatically integrating the jigsaw pieces of national priorities, historic cities and fragmented policies. Their call for community-led urban regeneration provides a strong, timely caution against 'Made in Whitehall' solutions that ignore the complexities of real places. There is a smart way to grow Britain, and this book is it." Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution, Washington, USA --Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Policy Program,

L'autore:

Anne Power, CASE, London School of Economics and Political Science and John Houghton, CASE, LSE

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• Editore: Policy Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1861346581
• ISBN 13: 9781861346582
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 280