Vocabularies for an Urbanising Planet: Theory Building th...
Schmid, Christian / Streule, Monika
Cartography as an instrument for the analysis of urbanisation processes The speed, scale and scope of urbanisation have increased dramatically in recent decades, transforming fundamentally the character of urban territories. To decipher the rapidly transforming land-scapes across the planet, we need a radical change of perspective. This book presents an expanded vocabulary of urbanisation through a comparison of Tokyo, Hong Kong - Shenzhen - D...