The Urban Condition

Autori

• Brendan Gleeson

Parametri

• 178 pagine
• 7 ore di lettura

• Geografia & Topografia
• Libri di testo
• Libri di testo universitari
• Mappe e viaggi
• Scienze sociali

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This book will speak to the new human epoch, the Urban Age. A majority of humanity now lives for the first time in cities. The city, the highest invention of the modern age, is now the human heartland. And yet the same process that brought us the city and its wonders, modernisation, has also thrown up challenges and threats, especially climate change, resource depletion, social division and economic insecurity. This book considers how these threats are encountered and countered in the urban age, focusing on the issue of human

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2015

(In brossura)