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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Forsyth, Ann, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary: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 richly documented book examines the results of those experiments in three of the most successful new communities: Irvine Ranch in Southern California, Columbia in Maryland, and The Woodlands in the suburbs of Houston, Texas. Based on new research and interviews with developers, designers, and residents, Ann Forsyt.
Physical Description:1 online resource (394 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780520937918

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