TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baan, Christine de
AU  - Declerck, Joachin
TI  - Visionary power: : Producing the contemporary city
SN  - 9789056625795
U1  - 720.28 DDC23
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Rotterdam
PB  - NAi Publisher
KW  - GRAPHICS AND DRAWINGS (GRP/DRW)
N2  - Never before have so many people lived in an urban environment: More than half the world's current population does, and that number is expected to rise to two-thirds by 2050. The contemporary city is the arena where all of the diverse forms of power and the far-reaching impacts of globalization must interact. This situation confronts us with issues that are more urgent than ever before: What is the contemporary city? Who and what "produces" it? Which forces steer its development? What is the potential role of the architect?; 
This volume draws together research about the foundations of the contemporary city; discusses forces that have a bearing on its development; formulates the challenges for today's architects and urban planners; and presents strategies with which they can operate in the midst of this interplay of forces, on the basis of topical, coherent visions for the twenty-first century city
ER  -