How cities work : suburbs, sprawl, and the roads not taken /
The author explores "the decentralized spread of California's Silicon Valley, the crowded streets of New York City's Jackson Heights neighborhood, the controlled growth of Portland, Oregon, and the stage-set facades of Disney's planned community, Celebration, Florida," and a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2000.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | Constructs series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A tale of two towns : Kissimmee versus Celebration and the new urbanism
- The end of place
- The deconstructed city : the silicon valley
- Trading places : the city and the suburb
- Jackson Heights : an anachronism finds its way
- The master hand : the role of government in building cities
- Portland and Oregon : taming the forces that create the modern metropolitan area
- No place called home : community at the millennium
- Getting there : building healthy cities.