Big plans : the allure and folly of urban design /

This work springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the role of rationality in public life. The author explores the part serendipity plays in urban experience.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kolson, Kenneth L., 1945-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2001.
Series:Center books on contemporary landscape design.
Subjects:
Cities and towns.
City planning.
Urban renewal.
Cities
Urban Renewal
Villes.
Design urbain.
Rénovation urbaine.
cities.
urban renewal.
urban design.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.
Cities and towns
City planning
Urban renewal
Stadtplanung
Stadtsanierung
Stadsplanning.
Steden.
Stadsvernieuwing.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A funny thing happened on the way to Trajan's forum.
  • The "hidden cities" of ancient North America.
  • Cleveland as city beautiful.
  • Utopian visions on the crabgrass frontier.
  • Urban renewal: "The bugs are all out".
  • The strange career of advocacy planning.
  • Two cheers for sprawl.
  • When government dares to dream.
  • The British Library: from great planning disaster to almost all right.
  • With its "doors set wide to the city".
  • SimCity and our town.

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