Urban Transformations

Name: Urban Transformations
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Power, People and Urban Design

By: Ian Bentley

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Hardcover | 24 June 1999 | Edition Number 1

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316 Pages

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23.4 x 15.6 x 2.54

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Urban Transformations examines the crucial issues relating to how cities can be transformed into better places. Exploring the links between the concrete physicality of the built environment, and the complex social, economic, political and cultural processes through which the physical urban form is produced and consumed, Ian Bentley proposes a new framework of ideas to provoke and develop current debate and new forms of practice. The book focuses on four key questions, examining: the most helpful conceptual framework for thinking about the processes of urban transformation; how this framework can help us to understand how these processes generate, through speculative markets, the forms and patterns of land-use which typify recent urban places; the common ground for change that can be identified as the practical basis for widespread action towards better loved and more sustainable urban places; and how the necessary changes can actually be made to happen in cities worldwide. Bentley concludes by identifying the most promising types of urban forms and working practices through which users and professionals might work together to develop better-loved urban places in the nea

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'an intriguing, absorbing read, bringing together a myriad of ideas - Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, Vol 27, 2000 - 'His undoubted enthusiasm rings out and he allows himself just sufficient idealism to fire imagination.' - Marcus Wilson, Urban Design, January 2000 -

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