Why Cities Look the Way They Do

Why Cities Look the Way They DoWe tend to think cities look the way they do because of the conscious work of architects, planners, and builders. But what if the look of cities had less to do with design and more to do with social, cultural, financial, and political processes, and the way ordinary citizens interact with them? What if the city is a process as much as a design? Richard J. Williams takes the moment construction is finished as a beginning, tracing the myriad processes