Shaping the city - Rodolphe El-Khoury

Takingon the key issues in urban design, Shaping the City examines the critical ideas that have driven these themes and debates through a study of particular cities at important periods in their development.As well as retaining crucialdiscussions about cities such as Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, andBrasilia at particular moments in their history that exemplified the problems and themes at hand like the mega-city, the post-colonial city and New Urbanism,in this new edition the editors have introduced new case studies critical to any study of contemporary urbanism -China, Dubai, Tijuanaand the wider issues of informal cities in the Global South.

The book serves as both a textbook for classes in urban design, planning and theory and isalsoattractive to the increasing interest in urbanism by scholars in other fields. Shaping the City provides an essentialoverview of the range and variety of urbanisms and urban issues that are critical to an understanding of contemporary urbanism.