Towns and Cities: Competing for Survival

ISBN-13: 9781138410893 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Angus McIntosh

Opis

This work suggests that as corporations continue to downsize, outsource and re-engineer themselves, an increasing amount of expenditure and employment growth will lie with the leisure sector. It examines the idea that this industry may provide a solution to the decline of towns and cities.

Recenzje

'Here then is the market-based antidote to planning idealism. Which is not to say that planners should not read it. On the contrary, since it illuminates all sorts of matters they ought to be aware of... they should study it...they won'tbe disapppointed' - Planning Magazine

'...it illuminates all sorts of matters they [planners] ought to be aware of, from technology that is 'the catalyst for urban change' to the influence of property investment on urban areas, they should study it.' - Planning Magazine

'The whole book is an invigorating catholic mix of description and polemic' - Russell Schiller, Hillier Park, London

'...both provocative and stimulating. - Architectural Review

Spis treści

The forces of change versus the intransigence of ignorance. Population change yet more counter urbanization. Technology - the catalyst to urban change. The spending zone for affluence. Cities - if not for work then for what. The future of cities in an epoch of growing global competition. Property investment and its influence on urban change. Strategies for the future.

O autorze

Angus McIntosh, Dr Angus Mcintosh