City Riffs traces the changing perspectives of urban design within an
ever-changing global context. Moving between sixteen cities, the book
also considers trans-disciplinary aspects of urbanism; formal and
informal growth in Kumasi and Caracas, post-colonial structures in New
Delhi and Prague, post-urban phenomena in Detroit and Brussels; cultural
transitions in Antwerp and Salzburg; the changing nature of place in
Seoul and Mostar; and new ecological realities in New York and Rome.
Urbanism is viewed as the production of space-integrating aspects of
design, ecology, and engineering, as well as other influences on urban
cognition such as social, economical, and psychological interactions. As
it covers a wide range of places and methods, this book will be an asset
to anyone who works on, lives in, or thinks about cities.