The Form of Cities Political Economy and Urban Design [Hardcover]

• 
  
• Demonstrates that cities are replete with symbolic values, collective memory, association and conflict.
  
• Proposes a new theoretical understanding of urban design, based in political economy.
  
• Demonstrates different ways of conceptualising the city, whether through aesthetics or the prism of gender, for example.
  
• Written in an engaging and jargon-free style, but retains a sophisticated interpretative edge.
  
• Complements Designing Cities by the same author (Blackwell, 2003).

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

1. Theory.

Introduction: The Problem.

Urban Design: Definitions.

Urban Design: ‘Theory’.

Spatial Political Economy and Urban Design.

2. History.

Introduction: What is History?.

History and Urban Design.

Chronologies.

Typologies.

Utopias.

Fragments.

Materialist Theory Overview.

3. Philosophy.

Introduction: Implications from Philosophy.

Philosophy and Urbanism Paradigms.

Philosophy and Urban Design 4. Politics.

Introduction: Politics and Ideology.

Power: Rights and Laws Law as Ideology.

Politics and Ul37