- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; English Language Ed edition (9 Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415272602
- ISBN-13: 978-0415272605
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.6 x 1.2 cm
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This book investigates the characteristics of today's built environment: no longer simply a city but increasingly large conurbations made up of a number of development clusters, linked by transport routes. The diffusion of the once compact city into a city web, the 'meta city' is mirrored by changes in society from communities with strong social cohesion and interest in their towns and cities to individuals pursing their own goals, with global social links and little interest in their city.
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Since the railway, car and electronics have exploded the spatial limits imposed by the muscular capabilities of human beings and animals, the city has been extending almost without restraint into the countryside. Read the first page
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Since the railway, car and electronics have exploded the spatial limits imposed by the muscular capabilities of human beings and animals, the city has been extending almost without restraint into the countryside. Read the first page
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