The social fabric of cities / Vinicius M. Netto.

"Bringing together ideas from the fields of sociology, economics, human geography, ethics, political and communications theory, this book deals with some key subjects in urban design: the multidimensional effects of the spatial form of cities, ways of appropriating urban space, and the different mat...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Design and the built environment series.
Main Author: Moraes Netto, Vinicius (Author)
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Series:Design and the built environment series.
Subjects:
City planning > Social aspects.
Urbanization > Social aspects.
Sociology, Urban.
Physical Description:xvi, 241 pages : illustrations, plates ; 26 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Threading the social and the spatial
  • 1. Restricting contact
  • 2. Segregated networks in the city
  • 3. Communication and space
  • 4. Urbanity as a dialogical achievement
  • 5. (Re)claiming the city: polis and the public sphere
  • 6. Notes on the genesis of form
  • 7. The social effects of architecture
  • 8. The city as result: unintended consequences of architectural choices.