World cities, city worlds : explorations with icons, metaphors and perspectives /: explorations with icons, metaphors and perspectives. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By William Solesbury.
• Authors: Solesbury, William
• Contents: Introduction : Making sense of cities -- Living together : cities as communities -- Legacy : Venice past and present -- Conflict : cities as battlegrounds -- Transformation : Mumbai's many worlds -- Images and narratives : artists' cities -- Energy : novelty and excess in New York -- Transactions : cities as marketplaces -- Space and time : analysts' cities -- Metamorphosis : Tokyo's renewals and reinventions - Efficiency and order : cities as machines -- Variety : the contradictions of Paris -- Power : rulers' cities -- Modernity : Los Angeles' rise and fall -- Growth and adaptation : cities as organisms -- Getting by : city life -- Postscript : Cities as heaven and hell.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 283 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 307.76; History: earliest times to present day; Cities and towns; Sociology, Urban; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban; Urban economics; Travel writing; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781527523630; 1527523632
• Related ISBNs: 9781527515840; 1527515842
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.