Reforming Suburbia : The Planned Communities of Irvine, Columbia, and The Woodlands /

The ""new community"" movement of the 1960s and 1970s attempted a grand experiment in housing. It inspired the construction of innovative communities that were designed to counter suburbia's cultural conformity, social isolation, ugliness, and environmental problems. This ri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Forsyth, Ann, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Vorstadt
Stadtleben
Suburbaner Raum
Planned communities.
City planning.
ARCHITECTURE > History > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Collectivites nouvelles > États-Unis > Études de cas.
City planning > Texas > Woodlands.
City planning > Maryland > Columbia.
City planning > California > Irvine.
Planned communities > United States > Case studies.
Columbia, Md.
Woodlands, Tex.
Irvine, Calif.
United States.
Texas > Woodlands.
Maryland > Columbia.
California > Irvine.
Woodlands (Tex.)
Columbia (Mar.)
Irvine (Calif.)
Columbia (Md.)
Études de cas.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The Irvine ranch
  • Columbia
  • The Woodlands
  • Organizing the metropolis
  • Alternatives to sprawl?
  • New town planning and the paradoxes of private innovation.

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