Multimedia Explorations in Urban Policy and Planning: Beyond the Flatlands

Sandercock, Leonie (Edited by)/ Attili, Giovanni (Edited by)

ISBN 10: 9400732198 / ISBN 13: 9789400732193

Editore: Springer, 2012

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• Titolo: Multimedia Explorations in Urban Policy and Planning: Beyond the Flatlands
• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9400732198
• ISBN 13: 9789400732193
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Brand New

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Riassunto

This volume explores the potential of multimedia to enrich and transform urban planning. It examines a broad range of new information and communication technologies, from film and video to digital ethnography and the internet.

Informazioni sull?autore

Leonie Sandercock is the author of ten books, the most recent of which include Towards Cosmopolis: Planning for Multicultural Cities (1998) and Cosmopolis 2: Mongrel Cities of the 21^st Century (2003). The latter book won the Paul Davidoff Award for best book awarded by the American Collegiate Schools of Planning. She also received the Dale Prize for Community Planning (2005), and the BMW Award for Intercultural Learning (2007), for her paper on 'Cosmopolitan Urbanism'. She co-authored with Giovanni Attili the book and DVD package Where Strangers become Neighbours: Integrating Immigrants in Vancouver, Canada (Springer, 2009).

Giovanni Attili is an Urban Planning PHD, Research Fellow at the University of Rome (La Sapienza) and Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia (UBC, Vancouver). He is recipient of the G.Ferraro Award for the best Urban Planning PhD Thesis in Italy in 2005. He is co-editor of the book "Storie di Citta" (Edizioni Interculturali, 2007), author of the book "La citta dei migranti" (Jaca Book, 2008) and co-author of the book and DVD package Where Strangers become Neighbours: Integrating Immigrants in Vancouver, Canada (Springer, 2009).