Humanising the city? : social contexts of urban life at the turn of the millennium
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Humanising the city? : social contexts of urban life at the turn of the millennium
Edinburgh University Press, c1993
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Essays originally presented to the symposium, The Age of the City: Human Life in the Twentyfirst Century, held at The International House, Osaka, Japan, 27-30 March 1990 ..."
Includes bibliographical reference and index
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Description
Examining how people carve out social space for themselves in the crowded and anonymous late-20th-century cities, this study mixes Japanese and Western thoughts on contemporary and future urban life. It focuses on the ways people try to "stamp their humanity" on city life by assimilating the city into their own needs, priorities, values and potentialities. The coverage is cross-cultural, looking at the UK, East and North Africa, Japan and Latin America. It shows how in Latin America the growth of cities has moved political power away from the established institutions towards popular organizations. Also examined is the impact of new computing, communication and human reproduction, and the rise of "world cities".
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