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Additional Physical Format: | Ebook version : |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert A Beauregard |
ISBN: | 9780226535241 022653524X 9780226535388 022653538X |
OCLC Number: | 988171799 |
Description: | xv, 213 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The city -- Wealth, poverty -- Destructive, sustainable -- Oligarchic, democratic -- Intolerant, tolerant -- Encountering contradictions. |
Responsibility: | Robert A. Beauregard. |
Abstract:
A case for and against cities: they're the best thing we have going (environmentally, socially, in terms of tolerance) but they're also inherently destructive. How to reconcile both-Beauregard argues that we don't need to; we should accept cities as inherently full of contradictions.
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