Urbanism: Imported or Exported?, Nasr, Volait 9780470851609 Free Shipp PB^+

UrbanismImported or Exported?\nAuthor(s): Joe Nasr, Mercedes Volait\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States\nImprint: Academy Press\nISBN-13: 9780470851609, 978-0470851609\nSynopsis\nThis book redresses the under-representation in existingEnglish-language literature, of the global formation and development of global cities which have been informed by the diffusion of Western ideas and building principles beyond the Western world The modes of diffusion of ideas that shape planned environments, and the ways these ideas are realized, have been gaining prominence as subjects of study and discussion among planning historians and others. Recently, some researchers have begun to approach the relations between actors and stakeholders in the processes of planning diffusion in increasingly complex and ambiguous ways.\n\n The natives in developing countries, whether colonial or post-colonial, are now being recognized as full-fledged participants in the shaping o.