Introduction To Space Syntax In Urban Studies Av Akkelies Van Nes, Claudia Yamu

We live in the suburban era. Well over half of all Americans and two-thirds of Canadians live in suburbs. Tracts of suburban bungalows ring Sydney and Melbourne. Suburban apartments rise on the outskirts of Paris, Prague, Singapore, and Beijing. Nearly...

City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and¿sometimes utopian¿aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments calls on the same range of disciplines and approaches that...

Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities around the world are not merging into indistinguishable duplicates of one another. In fact, as the world urbanizes, urban formations remain diverse in their socioeconomic and spatial...

Revised edition of this successful introduction to English syntax.