Martin J Murray

Gebundenes Buch

The Urbanism of Exception

The Dynamics of Global City Building in the Twenty-First Century

Beschreibung

This book argues that understanding global urbanism in the twenty-first century requires us to cast our gaze upon vast city-regions without an urban core.

Autor

Martin J. Murray is a Professor of Urban Planning at the Taubman College urban planning faculty. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His current research engages the fields of urban studies and planning, global urbanism, cultural geography, distressed urbanism, development, historical sociology, and African studies. In addition to six books and three co-edited volumes, he has produced close to eighty journal articles and book chapters that focus on diverse geographical areas of the world at different historical periods, ranging from colonial Indochina to contemporary southern Africa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 156mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9781107169241
• ISBN-10: 1107169240
• Artikelnr.: 47867829