COMPARATIVE URBANISM 'Comparative Urbanism fully transforms the scope and purpose
of urban studies today, distilling innovative conceptual and methodological tools. The …

The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive wave of present
urbanization is often referred to as an'urban revolution', most of this startling urban growth …

Splintering Urbanism makes an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex
interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. It delivers a new and …

Now and then, certain events occur which, with wonderful clarity, provide a capsule
illustration of much wider themes and concerns. In 1997 one of the most highly publicised …

Over the last two decades, suburban studies have emerged from a call for a new conceptual
order to go beyond the traditional dichotomies of the urban realm, namely, the centre …

The question of scale and of level implies a multiplicity of scales and levels, and thus a
hierarchical stratified morphology.... The choice of scale has a particular importance in this …

By exploring the formative years of the New City of Toronto (between 1995 and 2005, the
period just before, during, and after metropolitan amalgamation), Changing Toronto …

At the present time, most large cities in the world are polycentric and, at the same time, they
are undergoing processes of employment decentralisation and deconcentration. It has been …

During the final days of the summer of 1996, residents of the eastern inner suburbs of
metropolitan Toronto encountered just a bit more “nature” than they had bargained for. Two …

This is the first comparative study of the effects of global economic restructuring on the
populations of major cities of North America, Europe, Australia and South Africa. The book …