Lure of the city : (Record no. 5034)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780745331775 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 307.76 |
| Item number | LUR |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Lure of the city : |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | from slums to suburbs / |
| Remainder of title | edited by Austin Williams |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | Pluto Press , |
| Year of publication | 2011 . |
| Place of publication | London : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 207 p. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | The Civilised City; What is Civilisation?; Defensive Arguments; The Civilising Undercurrent; A Citizen's Agora. NotesFurther Reading; Contributors; Index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: The Paradoxical City; The Challenges; Make no Big Plans?; Reasserting Urban Autonomy; Imagining the Future; Making Humanity Visible; Notes; 1. The Dynamic City: Citizens Make Cities; Hongqiao Central Business District; Chinese Urbanisation; Conceptualising The City; The Central Relationship; Expo 2010: Better City, Better Life; Notes; --2. The Emerging City: Africa's Metropolitan Mindset; London: The City Illimitable; Nairobi: The Transient City; The Urban Emergence; The Anti-Modernist Imagination; Slum Tourists; Celebrating Flux; Notes.-- 3. The Crowded City: People on the MoveCities 'Packed to Blackness'; Megacity or Misanthropy?; Rising East; India: A Demographic Dividend, or Time-Bomb?; Slowing Down London; The Irreconcilable City; Notes;-- 4. The Planned City: Make No Little Plans; The Public Sphere; Urban Revolutions; Break with The Past; Modernism's Discontents; Complex Cities; Collaborative Planners; Can We Have Our Public Back Please?; Notes;-- 5. The Historic City: False Urban Memory Syndrome; Urban Memory Theory; The Changing Face of Localism; Modern Man; Memories Reinterpreted; Non-Collective Authority; The Role of Self. Notes6. The Sanitised City: If You've Done Nothing Wrong ... ; Unequal Equity; Past Versus Present; Autonomy; Notes;-- 7. The Eco-City: Utopia, Then and Now; Prefix-Cities; Fewer Choices; Underdeveloped Plans; Don't Mention the Industry; Prometheus Unbound; Positive Development; Notes; --8. The Visionary City: Things Will Endure Less than Us; Modernism's Promise and Promise Denied; Modern Nostalgia; Retreats from Reason; The New 'Visionary' Cities; Reclaiming the Future; |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Abstract, etc | Short, accessibly written essays make the case for cities, arguing that the metropolitan mindset is essential to the struggle for human liberation. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Sociology, Urban 2. Cities and towns. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Relator code | edited by |
| Personal name | Williams,Austin |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Relator code | edited by |
| Personal name | Donald,Alastair |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Lost status | Damaged status | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Non Fiction | Library, SPAB | Library, SPAB | E-1 | 02/08/2016 | 006763307.76 LUR 00000332 20130809 C-6790 20130827 BARODA GBP00001799 SPAB/LIB/2009-10/B | 307.76 LUR | 006763 | Books |