City Making and Urban Governance in the Americas : Curitiba and Portland.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (348 pages)
- Design and the Built Environment Series .
- Design and the Built Environment Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Local Spatiality in a Global World -- 1 Beyond the Urban Convergence/Divergence Debate: Architecture and Urbanism in a Global Urban Context -- PART I: Citizens and their City-States: A Governance Approach to Urban Development -- 2 Urban Governance and Citizen Participation: Definitions and Models -- 3 Urban Governance in Comparative Perspective: Curitiba and Portland -- PART II: Governance and the Practices of Urbanism in the Americas (1960-2003): Curitiba and Portland -- 4 The Politics of Urban and Regional Development in Curitiba -- 5 The Politics of Urban and Regional Development in Portland -- PART III: The Built Environment in the Era of Globalization: City Making and the (Re)production of Social and Spatial (In)equality in Curitiba and Portland -- 6 Gated and Edge Cities: Community and Alienation in Curitiba -- 7 Housing and Growth Management Debates in Portland: Conflicting Planning Views, Contrasting Architectural Typologies -- 8 Architecture and Image-Making: Invocations of Tradition vs. Critical Transnationalism in Curitiba -- 9 Nike vis-ŕ-vis adidas: Spatializing Regional Planning Discourses in Portland's Global Corporate Architecture -- EPILOGUE: Urban Governance and City Making in the Americas -- Bibliography -- Index.
Curitiba in Brazil and Portland in Oregon, US are cities that have achieved recognition for exemplary urban planning programmes over the past three decades. As such, they provide particularly useful illustrations of the intense development pressures that many urban areas currently face. This book explores the dynamics of their urban governance.