The urban contract community, governance and capitalism

• Main Author: Perulli, Paolo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2017
• Subjects: Cities and towns; Contracts > Social aspects
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• Physical Description: vii, 246 pages 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9781472445902

The concept of urban contract proposed in this book combines the theoretical body of economic-juridical literature on the contract with that of historical-anthropological and socio-spatial literature on the city. Through a diverse range of ten city case studies, The Urban Contract compares European, North-American and Asian Urban Contracts. It concludes with a theoretical proposal for understanding the deep dialectical nature of Contract Cities: their reciprocity and competition, their dual trend towards growth and decay, their cyclical nature as agents of change and disruption of the social forms of urbanity.