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    Sustainable Eastern and Western Cities in the New Millennium

    Collections series Routledge Revivals
    Published in 1999. Analyzing and chronicling the continued development of key information, communication and fast transport networks at a global and regional level, this book looks at the transition to an information-based economy, and its urban impacts, at a global, regional and city level. The book outlines the change by defining it as the third great societal transition in the history of human ... En savoir plus

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  • The Future of Urban Form

    The Impact of New Technology

    Collections series Routledge Library Editions: Urban Studies
    This book, first published in 1985, explores the ways in which the editors and contributors predicted the urban system, shaped by emerging technologies, would look like, both nationally and internationally. The technological changes covered include automation in the secondary sector, the effects of energy price rises and threats of shortage, and substitution effects in the energy and vehicle ... En savoir plus

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    The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy

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