Urban Design Since 1945 - A Global Perspective

摘要

The title of Grahame Shane's latest book - a successor to his 2005 Recombinant Urban-ism - is self-explanatory. As he is the first to acknowledge it is almost impossible to comprehensively address the post-war global development of cities in a succinct volume accessible to the wider audience at which this book is aimed. The book does succeed in establishing an overview of the explosion in urbanisation, setting this in a deep historical, political and cultural context, supported by a dizzying international selection of references.