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Towards Cosmopolis: Planning for Multicultural Cities

Towards Cosmopolis: Planning for Multicultural Cities

by Leonie Sandercock (Author)

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    Paperback 1997

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Synopsis

Most of the world's populations now live in cities. These cities, especially the big world cities are multicultural, they are melting pots of different people, with different ethnic backgrounds, classes and subcultures. How can these cosmopolitan cities respond to the economic, political and cultural demands and needs of so many different (and even opposing) groups? This text examines current theory and practice and challenges planners to build the new multicultural cities. It includes international coverage, with case material from USA, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 268
 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 27 Nov 1997
ISBN 10: 0471971987
ISBN 13: 9780471971986

Media Reviews
The most important book on planning practice of the late 20th Century. It will set the terms of debate for years to come., Robert Beauregard, # The best contemporary text for teaching planning history and theory. It pushes theory and practice beyond its stubbornly modernist paradigms and into the new spaces opened by post-modern, post-colonial and feminist critiques., Edward Soja, # Sandercock draws on recent theoretical and political debates on gender, race and sexuality as well as on grassroots struggles in the radically multiple cities of the late 20th Century to argue that planners have to find a way of building the new multicultural city, the Cosmopolis., Neil Smith, # A brilliant tour de force, an original critique no thinking planner should be without. Passionate yet coherently reasoned and lucidly written, the book advances a Utopian vision, deeply grounded in actual cases drawn from a wide range of countries, to demonstrate how multicultural urban communities can achieve justice in a democratic manner., Janet Abu-Lughod, #