Towards Cosmopolis
Author | : Leonie Sandercock |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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From Polis to Metropolis, men and women have continued to struggle to perfect our cities. Urban history presents a picture of grand ideals and devastating failures. Towards Cosmopolis explores why we have failed, and how we could succeed, in building an urban Utopia - with a difference. Globalization, civil society, feminism and post-colonialism are the forces, ever shifting and changing our cities. We need a new vision to face such change. Sandercock pulls down the pillars of modernist city planning and raises in their place a new post-modern planning, a planning sensitive to community, environment and cultural diversity.