ISBN: 9781902902609 - cities from zero (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 136 pages. 8.11x5.91x0.47 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 128 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 21 cm. At the start of the 21st century there has been a marked shift - both economic and political - from the West to the East. Dubai vies with other Gulf cities to create the ultimate Middle Eastern hub for business, culture and leisure. Chinas feverish construction industry is operating at an unprecedented scale, as it builds higher and faster than anyone else. "The contributors in this book -- architects, critics and documenters -- have responded to the invitation to prise the fact from the fiction, with particular focus on both the Gulf emirate of Dubai and the rapid urbanisation of China. Are cities from zero universal blueprints of a better world for all of us, or doomed, out-dated models of already extinct ideologies?"--Cover.…