City making and urban governance in the Americas: Curitiba and Portland
Year: 2006
Type: book-review
Abstract: Contents: Introduction: Local Spatiality in a Global World: Beyond the urban convergence/divergence debate: architecture and urbanism in a global urban context. Citizens and their City-States: A governance approach to urban development Urban governance and citizen participation: Definitions and models Urban governance in comparative perspective: Curitiba and Portland. Governance and the Practices of Urbanism in the Americas (1960-2003): Curitiba and Portland: The politics of urban and regional development in Curitiba The politics of urban and regional development in Portland. The Built Environment in the Era of Globalization: City making and the (re)production of social and spatial (in)equality in Curitiba and Portland Gated and edge cities: community and alienation in Curitiba Housing and growth management debates in Portland: conflicting planning views, contrasting architectural typologies Architecture and image-making: invocations of tradition vs. critical transnationalism in Curitiba Nike vis-A -vis adidas: Spatializing regional planning discourses in Portland's global corporate architecture. Epilogue: Urban governance and city-making in the Americas Bibliography Index.
Source: Choice Reviews Online
Authors: Irazábal, Clara; School of Policy, Planning and Development - University of Southern California - Los Angeles, California, Moura, Rosa; Instituto Paranaense de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social - IPARDES
Institution: University of Southern California
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1863876809