Shaping good cities and citizens

Ruppert, Evelyn (2011). Shaping good cities and citizens. In: Watson, Sophie and Bridge, Gary eds. The New Blackwell Companion to the City. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, pp. 667–678.

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This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives.

- The most interdisciplinary collection of its kind

- Provides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established debates in the field

- Uses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues more broadly

- Includes contributions from non Western perspectives and cities

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• Item ORO ID
• 24773
• Item Type
• Book Section
• ISBN
• 1-4051-8981-9, 978-1-4051-8981-1
• Keywords
• assemblages; city; conduct; discourse; materiality; practices; rationalities; redevelopment; technologies; Toronto
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
• Copyright Holders
• © 2011 John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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• • http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=flfVQ...(Other)
• Depositing User
• Evelyn Ruppert