Jigsaw cities : Big places, small spaces / / Anne Power and John Houghton

• Autore: Power Anne
• Pubblicazione: Bristol, UK : , : Policy, , 2007; ©2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.7609424/96
• Soggetto topico: Kommunalpolitik; Stadtentwicklung; Sociology, Urban; POLITICAL SCIENCE - Public Policy - Regional Planning; SOCIAL SCIENCE - Sociology - Urban; Sociologie urbaine - Angleterre - Birmingham; Sociology, Urban - England - Birmingham
• Soggetto geografico: Grossbritannien; England Birmingham
• Soggetto genere / forma: Case studies.; Electronic books.
• Altri autori: HoughtonJohn <1978->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-253) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; JIGSAW CITIES; Contents; List of tables, figures and photographs; Preface; 1. Introducing Jigsaw cities; 2. Jigsaws and Lego sets; 3. Breaking up the jigsaw; 4. Building the New Jerusalem -- vision and reality; 5. Cities bounce back -- piecing communities together again; 6. Britain's cities today: a progress report; 7. Britain's cities of yesterday and tomorrow; 8. Smart cities work; 9. Future cities: piecing the jigsaw together; Afterword: the urban jungle or urban jigsaw?; Notes and references; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Looking at major British cities, using Birmingham as a case study, this title explores Britain's intensely urban and increasingly global communities as interlocking pieces of a complex jigsaw, which are hard to see apart yet they are deeply unequal.
• Titolo autorizzato: Jigsaw cities
• ISBN: 1-4473-0263-X; 1-281-74153-1; 9786611741532; 1-84742-233-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458954303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: CASE studies on poverty, place, and policy.