{"product_id":"cities-by-design-9780745648989","title":"Cities by Design","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process and examines the close relationship between the social and physical shaping of urban environments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"She brings to the fore a wealth of research from design, planning, and development studies and offers for her own part a compelling view of urban form and place making that complicates common assumptions—in sociology and planning alike—about the nature of cities in the 21st century.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A momentous work of uncommon intelligence and clarity that packs a powerful political punch.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMorning Star\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Finally, a book on urban design that gets close to the formal and informal practices, the material, social and virtual matter, and the deliberate and deliberative impulses that make and unmake cities. Fran Tonkiss offers a whole new repertoire of possibilities to help fashion the liveable and democratic city.''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAsh Amin, University of Cambridge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e''Tonkiss is among the most insightfully spatial of urban sociologists and uses this social-spatial acuity to re-design urban design as “the social life of urban form”. Cities by Design re-opens the old claim that urban design can become a convergent focus for critical thinking and effective practice across all disciplines and professions. Tonkiss applies her expanded vision of design to such controversial issues as density and sprawl, inequality and injustice, segregation and diversity, ordinary urbanism and informality, environmental racism and sustainability, never losing touch with practical, political, and policy implications.''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward Soja, UCLA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: Cities by Design 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Social Life of Urban Form: Size, Density, Diversity 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Unequal Cities, Segregated Spaces 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Contradictions of Informality 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Urban Environments: Ecology, Inequity, Mobility 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Infrastructure as 'Design Politics' 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Afterword: The Possible City 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 201\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865705558359,"sku":"9780745648989","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745648989.jpg?v=1722275192","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cities-by-design-9780745648989","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}