Towns for people : transforming urban life / Ken Worpole

By:

Worpole, Ken

Publication details: Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, cop. 1992Edition: 1st edDescription: vi, 113 pISBN:

0335099645

Summary: There is a rising concern about how town centres seem to have lost many of their traditional functions - as meeting places, as centres of social, political and cultural life, and as the very focus of the urban "public realm". They seem to have become shopping and commercial centres by day and near-deserted ghost towns by night. Our civic culture is in crisis with rising street crime, fear of going out at night, unreliable public transport, inappropriate town planning, the growth of domestic leisure and social and demographic splintering. Ken Worpole argues that the relationship between people and places, between citizenship and public space the values of cultural diversity and cosmopolitanism have been lost in a preoccupation with land-use planning and "race to the finish" local economic growth. He offers a new agenda for cultural and civic renewal in our towns and cities. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 02587	1	Available (Disponible)		1900006608

Reimpressions: 1993

Introduction -- 1. What went wrong? -- 2. Time and space in the modern town -- 3. Safety in numbers: towards women-friendly cities -- 4. Licensed space -- 5. The invisible web -- 6. The forms of civic renewal -- Bibliography -- Index

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