Cosmopolis II: Mongrel Cities of the 21st Century / Edition 2

by Leonie Sandercock

Overview

The 21st century will be the century of multicultural cities, of the struggle for equality and diversity and the struggle against fundamentalism. Cosmopolis II presents a truly global tour of contemporary cities - from Birmingham to Rotterdam, Frankfurt to Berlin, Sydney to Vancouver, and Chicago to East St. Louis. Passionately written and superbly illustrated with a range of specially commissioned images, Cosmopolis II is a visionary book of our urban future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826464637
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/01/2003
Series:	Mongrel Cities of the Twenty-First Century
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

LEONIE SANDERCOCK is Professor of Urban Planning and Social Policy in the School of Community and Regional Planning at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Table of Contents

IntroductionPart One: Looking Back: Modernist Planning and its Discontents1) Modernist Cities and Planning2) Rewriting Planning History3) Who Knows?: Exploring Planning's KnowledgesPart Two: Looking Forward: Mongrel Cities and the 21st Century Multicultural project4) Mongrel Cities: How Can We Live Together? 5) Home, Nation and Stranger: Fear in the City6) There is No Hiding Place: Integrating ImmigrantsPart Three: Towards a New Planning Imagination7) Transfomative Planning Practices: How and Why Cities Change8) The Power of Story Planning9) City Songlines

Editorial Reviews

"A book of passion and conviction about how cities are and what they might become. It is a challenge to all those whose professions are bound up with shaping the world's urban future." City

"An extraordinarily comprehensive investigation." Blueprint

"Cosmopolis II captures the radical mood of the early 21st century and turns it into a positive project about living in multi-cultural cities. It will appeal to all those struggling with and studying contemporary cities. Beautifully written, clear, authoritative, and enhanced with evocative imagery, the book brings together new ideas, new literature, new cases and new arguments. It is likely to become a core text in the literature on cities and planning very quickly. No other book achieves the synthesis provided here." Patsy Healey, University of Newcastle

"Sandercock's pervasive commitment and sensitive imagination provide a valuable inspiration to all those concerned with the quality of cities and their governance." Urban Studies

"The best contemporary text for teaching planning history and theory." Edward Soja, Planning, UCLA

"The most important book on planning practice of the late 20th Century. It will set the terms of debate for years to come" Robert Beauregard, New School for Social Research, New York

"An extraordinarily comprehensive investigation."--Blueprint

Congratulations to Leonie Sandercock on being awarded the 2005 Dale Prize, awarded each year by the Department of Urban & Regional Planning at California State Polytechnic University for excellence in a common field of urban and regional planning.

"The best contemporary text for teaching planning history and theory."

"The best contemporary text for teaching planning history and theory."

From the Publisher

Sandercock (urban planning & social policy, Univ. of British Columbia) has written another passionate book critiquing value-neutral, empirically based planning. Though billed as a textbook, this is not a how-to guide for city planning. Originally intended as a new edition of Towards Cosmopolis, it contains eight new chapters and introduces enough new and updated information to make it worth reading. Sandercock is unapologetically postmodern in approach. She pays little attention to the built environment, design, or the urban-suburban divide. Nor is she much interested in statistics; even economics is downplayed. Instead, she repeatedly calls for a new planning theory that adequately accounts for the world's increasingly multicultur al cities and their diverse, often marginalized, inhabitants, whose stories are emphasized throughout. Sandercock argues that the cities of the future must take the concerns of these groups into consideration. Interesting reading, if hardly proscriptive, this work will be of interest to academic libraries that support city planning and urban studies programs.-David A. Timko, U.S. Census Bureau Lib., Washington, DC Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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