This volume of scholarly essays, the result of detailed research, contributes to our understanding of the cultural role of cities by offering an alternative approach to the analysis of urban experience. Two major cities, New York and Copenhagen are used as vehicles for this exploration of sociological, anthropological and aesthetic issues. The contribution of academics in the field of literature bring a different perspective to this comparative work.

This volume of scholarly essays, the result of detailed research, contributes to our understanding of the cultural role of cities by offering a new approach to the analysis of the urban experience.

City Riffs traces the changing perspectives of urban design within an ever-changing global context. Moving between sixteen cities, the book also considers trans-disciplinary aspects of urbanism; formal and informal growth in Kumasi and Caracas, post-colonial structures in New Delhi and Prague, post-urban phenomena in Detroit and Brussels; cultural transitions in Antwerp and Salzburg; the changing nature of place in Seoul and Mostar; and new ecological realities in New York and Rome. Urbanism is viewed as the production of space-integrating aspects of design, ecology, and engineering,...