Understanding Cities: Method in Urban Design

by Alexander Cuthbert

Book Overview

Understanding Cities is richly textured, complex and challenging. It creates the vital link between urban design theory and praxis and opens the required methodological gateway to a new and unified field of urban design. Using spatial political economy as his most important reference point, Alexander Cuthbert both interrogates and challenges mainstream urban design and provides an alternative and viable comprehensive framework for a new synthesis.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415608244
• ISBN13: 9780415608244
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.6"