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Market Cities, People Cities : The Shape of Our Urban Future by Kevin T. Smiley & Michael Oluf Emerson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Market Cities, People Cities : The Shape of Our Urban Future about?
An in-depth look at the urban environments of Houston and Copenhagen How are modern cities changing, and what implications do those changes have for city inhabitants? What kinds of cities do people want to live in, and what cities do people want to create in the future? Michael Oluf Emerson and Kevin T. Smiley argue that western cities have diverged into two specific and different types: market cities and people cities. Market cities are focused on wealth, jobs, individualism, and economic opportunities. People cities are more egalitarian, with government investment in infrastructure and an active civil society. Analyzing the practices and policies of cities with two separate foci, markets or people, has substantial implications both for everyday residents and future urban planning and city development. Market Cities, People Cities examines these diverging trends through extended case studies of Houston, Texas as a market city and Copenhagen, Denmark as a people city, and draw on data from nearly 100 other cities. Emerson and Smiley track the history of how these two types of cities have been created, and how they function for governments and residents in various ways, examining tr
Who reads Market Cities, People Cities : The Shape of Our Urban Future?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kevin T. Smiley & Michael Oluf Emerson
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781479856794
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, Economics, Political Science