Towards Cosmopolis: Planning for Multicultural Cities

"Towards cosmopolis : planning for multicultural cities" by Leonie Sandercock, published by J. Wiley. From Polis to Metropolis, men and women have continued to struggle to perfect our cities. Urban history presents a picture of grand ideals and devastating failures. Towards Cosmopolis explores why we have failed, and how we could succeed, in building an urban Utopia - with a difference. Globalization, civil society, feminism and post-colonialism are the forces, ever shifting and changing our cities. We need a new vision to face such change. Sandercock pulls down the pillars of modernist city planning and raises in their place a new post-modern planning, a planning sensitive to community, environment and cultural diversity. Book details: published 1998. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.