Order and Disorder in Urban Space and Form: Ideas, Discourse, PRAXIS and Worldwide Transfer

by Paul Jenkins, Harry Smith, Paul Jenkins

Book Overview

The global application of Enlightenment-derived concepts to create social order through urban form suggests that we believe we know how to create a (future) ordered environment. But these notions of order and disorder need interrogation, especially as the world rapidly urbanises.

Not only have such approaches failed to produce more social order, but it has become clear that the imposition of these ideas in cities of the South cuts across...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415586933
• ISBN13: 9780415586931
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages