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This unique text looks at the history of the city by focusing on a series of critical issues in urban design that are exemplified by cities like Paris, London, New York, Berlin, Vienna and Chicago at particular times in the 19th and 20th centuries. Each author provides a case study highlightning partiular issues of design characteristic to that city. Eleven cities are examined and chapters on the asian city, the new urbanism, the cybercity and utopia are also included. The panel of authors, each an acknowledged specialist in their chosen city, have provided a unique critique that will attract the attention of anyone with an interest in cultural geography and urban anthropology as well as students of architecture, urban design and planning.

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