Living in the endless city :   the Urban Age project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society /  
Richard Burdett ; Deyan Sudjic ; London School of Economics and Political Science. 
 - London :   Phaidon Press,   2011. 
 - 430 páginas :   ilustraciones a color, mapas ;   26 cm. 
<br/><br/> Textos en inglés.  Incluye tabla de contenido.  
<br/><br/>Introduction : Foreword / Wolfgang Nowak --<br/>Living in the urban age / Ricky Burdett and Philipp Rode --<br/>The architecture of the endless city / Deyan Sudjic --<br/>The economics of cities / Saskia Sassen --<br/>Cities : Mumbai : Managed chaos / Deyan Sudjic ; Democracy and self-interest / K.C. Sivaramakrishnan ; A matter of people / Darryl D'Monte ; Looking for the bird of gold / Suketu Mehta ; The static and the kinetic / Rahul Mehrotra ; The long view / Charles Correa ; Beyond the maximum / Geetam Tiwari --<br/>São Paulo : The urban giant / Deyan Sudjic ; Filling the political vacuum / Jeroen Klink ; The cultures of the metropolis / Gareth A. Jones ; Looking for a shared identity / José de Souza Martins ; Worlds set apart / Teresa Caldeira ; The mirage and its limits / Raul Juste Lores ; Living on the edge / Fernando de Mello Franco --<br/>Istanbul : The city to big to fail / Deyan Sudjic ; Bridging histories / Ílhan Tekeli ; The hinge city / Richard Sennett ; It's Istanbul (not globalization) / Hashim Sarkis ; The violence of change / Asu Aksoy ; The contours of concrete / Ömer Kanipak ; Measuring success / Çaǧler Keyder --<br/>Data : Vital statistics: nine cities compared ; Understanding the numbers / Justin McGuirk ; Understanding what people think / Tony Travers --<br/>Reflections : Boundaries and borders / Richard Sennett ; No frills and bare life / Alejandro Zaera-Polo ; City solutions to global problems / Nicholas Stern, Dimitri Zenghelis and Philipp Rode ; Democracy and governance / Gerald E. Frug ; The urban earthquake / Anthony Williams ; Uneven landscapes / Sophie Body-Gendrot ; From utopia to youtopia / Alejandro Aravena ; Surviving in an urban age / David Satterthwaite ; Getting to work / Fabio Casiroli ; Facing the metro challenge / Bruce Katz ; On the ground / Adam Kaasa with Marcos Rosa and Priya Shankar. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780714861180  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>CIUDADES Y PUEBLOS--INVESTIGACIÓN<br/>DESARROLLO URBANO<br/>GLOBALIZACIÓN <br/>CIUDADES CAPITALES
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>307.76 L49e