Table of Contents

Introduction Industrial-Modern City Demographic Change and the City Global Cities Everyday Life in the City Consumption and Urban Culture Urban Social Inequality and Exclusion Planning and the Urban Environment The Sustainable City Reflections.

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David C. Thorns is the author of "fragmenting Societies? A Comparative Analysis of Regional and Urban Development" (Routledge 1992).

About the Author

DAVID C. THORNS is Professor of Sociology at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He is the author of many books, including Fragmenting Societies? A Comparative Analysis of Regional and Urban Development (Routledge 1992).

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'...a pleasure to get the chance to read this. It will certainly be used in my own teaching.' - Stephen A. Royle, Queen's University Belfast, Geography