Taking on the key issues in urban design, Shaping the City examines the critical ideas that have driven these themes and debates through a study of particular cities at important periods in their development. As well as retaining crucial discussions about cities such as Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Brasilia at particular moments in their history that exemplified the problems and themes at hand like the mega-city, the post-colonial city and New Urbanism, in this new edition the editors have introduced new case studies critical to any study of contemporary urbanism – China, Dubai, Tijuana and the wider issues of informal cities in the Global South.

The book serves as both a textbook for classes in urban design, planning and theory and is also attractive to the increasing interest in urbanism by scholars in other fields. Shaping the City provides an essential overview of the range and variety of urbanisms and urban issues that are critical to an understanding of contemporary urbanism.

在城市设计的关键问题上，《塑造城市》通过对特定城市在其发展的重要时期的研究，研究了推动这些主题和辩论的关键思想。除了保留对洛杉矶、亚特兰大、芝加哥、底特律、费城和巴西利亚等城市在其特定历史时刻的重要讨论，这些城市体现了当前的问题和主题，如巨型城市、后殖民城市和新城市主义，在这个新版本中，编辑们引入了对任何当代城市主义研究至关重要的新案例研究--中国、迪拜、蒂华纳和全球南部非正规城市的广泛问题。

本书既可作为城市设计、规划和理论课程的教科书，也对其他领域的学者对城市主义越来越感兴趣具有吸引力。塑造城市》对城市主义的范围和种类以及对理解当代城市主义至关重要的城市问题提供了一个基本概述。