The Urbanism of Exception by Martin J. Murray HARDBACK 9781107169241

The Urbanism of Exception\nby Martin J. Murray\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Martin J. Murray\nTitle: The Urbanism of Exception\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Sociology\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2017\nISBN-13: 9781107169241\nISBN-10: 1107169240\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis book challenges the conventional (modernist-inspired) understanding of urbanization as a universal process tied to the ideal-typical model of the modern metropolis with its origins in the grand Western experience of city-building. At the start of the twenty-first century, the familiar idea of the ''city'' - or ''urbanism'' as we know it - has experienced such profound mutations in both structure and form that the customary epistemological categories and prevailin.