Building the urban environment : visions of the organic city in the United States, Europe, and Latin America /

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"Building the Urban Environment is a comparative study of the contestation among planners, policymakers, and the grassroots over the production and meaning of urban space. Award-winning historian Harold Platt presents case studies of seven cities, including Rotterdam, Chicago, and Sao Paulo, to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Platt, Harold L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2015]
Colección:Urban life, landscape, and policy.
Temas:
City planning > United States.
City planning > Europe.
City planning > Latin America.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
HISTORY > General.
City planning
Stadtentwicklung
Stadtforschung
Umwelt
Stadsplanering.
Europe
Latin America
United States
Europa.
Latinamerika.
Förenta staterna.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: planners, policy makers, and the grass roots
  • 1. Growing the organic city, 1890-1945
  • 2. Running the modernization race, 1945-1960
  • 3. Case studies, 1945-1960
  • 4. Uprising against the planners, 1960-1968
  • 5. Case studies, 1960-1968
  • 6. Constructing the organic city, 1968-1980
  • 7. Case studies, 1968-1980
  • Conclusions: city of flows, city of citizens.

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