1st Edition
Global City Typologies Transactional Forces in Urbanised Development
PART I - INTRODUCTION and URBAN THEORY
PART II – ESTABLISHED HISTORIC CITIES
2.0 Introduction – Historic Cities
2.1 Imperial Cities
2.2 Theistic Cities
2.3 Former Capital Cities
2.4 Historic European Capital Cities
2.5 Academic and Ecclesiastic European Cities
PART III – EARLY TRADING CITIES
3.0 Introduction – Early Trading Cities
3.1 Mercantile Port Cities
3.2 Lowland, Hanseatic, Baltic, and Scandinavian Port Cities
3.3 Maritime Cities
3.4 Island Cities
3.5 Mountain Cities
PART IV – PLANNED CITIES
4.0 Introduction – Planned Cities
4.1 Former Soviet and Eastern European Cities
4.2 Divided Cities
4.3 Industrial & De-industrialised Cities
4.4 Modern American Cities
4.5 New Capital Cities
PART V – EMERGING GLOBAL CITIES
5.0 Introduction – Emerging Global Cities
5.1 Innovative Cities
5.2 Trans-National Global Cities
5.3 Mega African Cities
5.4 Mega South American Cities
5.5 Mega Asian Cities
PART VI – MEGALOPOLITAN AGGLOMERATIONS
6.0 Megalopolitan Agglomerations
6.1 Megalopolitan Europe
6.2 Megalopolitan Americas
6.3 Megalopolitan Japan
6.4 Megalopolitan India
6.5 Megalopolitan China
PART VII – SUMMARY
7.0 Synopsis
Bibliography & Further Reading
Biography
Nigel C. Lewis is a consulting engineer, planner and designer who has practised in the UK, and across western and central Europe, the mid-East, Africa, Asia and the USA. As part of multi-disciplinary design and building teams, he has been responsible for the planning, design and realisation of both private and publicly financed facilities and urban infrastructure.
"Nigel Lewis has assembled an enormous work of scholarship on urbanisation from historical through to contemporary times. His work was always intended as an encyclopaedia of types rather than a predictor of future trends. This offers scope for its sequel, now complemented by his website urbanistiX.com. Studies of the transactional forces in urban development offer a huge contribution to understanding this under-analysed global science. Global City Typologies will be a go-to work of reference for decades to come."
Hugh Roberts, Consultant in Urbanism and Development Planning, formerly Planning Director of international consultancies: WS Atkins, Colin Buchanan & Ptnrs, Sinclair Knight Merz and Jacobs Inc.
