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City making and urban governance in the Americas : Curitiba and Portland

Title: City making and urban governance in the Americas : Curitiba and Portland / Clara Irazábal.
Author: Irazábal, Clara.
Publication: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2005], ©2005.

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Description

viii, 335 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Design and the built environment series

Uniform Title

Design and the built environment series.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-335) and index.

Contents

Beyond the urban convergence/divergence debate : architecture and urbanism in a global urban context -- Urban governance and citizen participation : definitions and models -- Urban governance in comparative perspective : Curitiba and Portland -- The politics of urban and regional development in Curitiba -- The politics of urban and regional development in Portland -- Gated and edge cities : community and alienation in Curitiba -- Housing and growth management debates in Portland : conflicting planning views, contrasting architectural typologies -- Architecture and image-making : invocations of tradition vs. critical transnationalism in Curitiba -- Nike vis-à-vis Adidas : spatializing regional planning discourses in Portland's global corporate architecture.

ISBN

0754642534 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004025009

OCLC

ocm56825603
SCSB-9251819

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries