Burdett, Richard (2012) Mapping scales of urban identity. Architectural design, 82 (6). pp. 92-97. ISSN 1554-2769
Abstract
Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies at LSE where he is Director of the Urban Age programme, is engaged in studying cities at different scales and regional contexts. Here he looks at what gives a city like London its unique sense of scale, and how it might be possible to design in the sort of vibrancy and spatial complexity that evolve in informal neighbourhoods over time. Through examples of local initiatives in Cape Town and Mumbai, he gives concrete evidence of what constitutes this approach.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28... |
| Additional Information: | © 2012 John Wiley & Sons |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Saskia Sassen, time and appropriation, Richard Sennett, ‘brittle’ urbanism, Canary Wharf, La Defense, Songdo, Pudong, Ash Amin, ‘telescopic urbanism’, Heliopolis, Khaleyitsha, Urban Age network, Shanghai, Istanbul, São Paulo, Mumbai, Tabanlioǧlu Architects, Sapphire Tower, Istanbul, 2010, UN Habitat, Planet of Slums, Mike Davis, Doug Saunders, Arrival City, Shadow Cities, Robert Neuwirth, Rocinha in Rio, Sanjay Gandhi Nagar in Mumbai, gecekondus of Istanbul, Edgar Pieterse, ‘Mothers Unite’, Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU), ‘urban acupuncture’, Suketu Mehta, The Maximum City |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Sets: | Departments > Sociology Research centres and groups > Cities Programme |
| Rights: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/rights/LSERO.htm |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/47545/ |
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