Understanding Cities

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1. Unruly Cities?

   Order/Disorder

   Edited by Chris Brook, Gerry Mooney, Steve Pile

   Series: Understanding Cities

   The text argues that cities are open to many forms of order and disorder both from within the city and outside. They represent cities potentials as well as their problems. It challenges the assumption that cities are threatened by disorder from below and that they might be ruled by 'order' imposed...

   Published May 5th 1999 by Routledge
2. Unsettling Cities

   Movement/Settlement

   Edited by John Allen, Doreen Massey, Michael Pryke

   Series: Understanding Cities

   This text examines the global nature of cities - cities whose openness has shaped their dynamism and character.It explores cities as sites of movement, migration and settlement where different peoples, cultures and environments combine. Unsettling Cities explores the mix of proximity and difference...

   Published February 17th 1999 by Routledge
3. City Worlds

   By John Allen, Doreen Massey, Steve Pile

   Series: Understanding Cities

   For the first time in history, half of the worlds population is living in mega-cities. Never before have we confronted such a geography of the worlds people.Analysing cities through spatial understanding, City Worlds explores how different worlds within the city are brought into close proximity....

   Published October 21st 1998 by Routledge