Cities and City Planning

✍ Scribed by Lloyd Rodwin, Hugh Evans, Robert Hollister, Kevin Lynch, Michael Southworth, Lawrence Susskind (auth.)

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 1981
Tongue: English
Leaves: 318
Series: Environment, Development, and Public Policy: Cities and Development
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Future Metropolis....Pages 3-7
Great and Terrible Cities....Pages 8-18
The Educative City....Pages 19-29
The Form of the City....Pages 30-60
Images of the City in the Social Sciences....Pages 61-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Problems of the Metropolis....Pages 81-101
Conditions for a Successful New Communities Program....Pages 102-114
The New Communities Program and Why It Failed....Pages 115-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Realism and Utopianism in City Planning....Pages 139-159
Changing Perspectives on Area Development Strategies....Pages 160-185
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Four Approaches to Urban Studies....Pages 189-209
Training City Planners in Third World Countries....Pages 210-226
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
On the Illusions of City Planners....Pages 229-255
The Profession of City Planning....Pages 256-271
Acknowledgments....Pages 273-276
Back Matter....Pages 277-309

✦ Subjects

Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning

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