| Description |
xv, 532 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
1965 "The Urbanization of the Human Population" / Kingsley Davis -- 1951 "The Urban Revolution" / V. Gordon Childe -- 1951 "The Polis" / H. D. F. Kitto -- 1925 "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization" / Henri Pirenne -- 1845 "The Great Towns" / Friedrich Engels -- 1899 "The Negro Problems of Philadelphia," "The Question of Earning a Living," and "Color Prejudice" / W. E. B. Dubois -- 1967 "Levittown and America" / Herbert J. Gans -- 1994 "A New Geography of Centers aud Margins: Summary and Implications" / Saskia Sassen -- 1952 "The Almost Perfect Town" / John Brinckerhoff Jackson -- 1925 "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project" / Ernest W. Burgess -- 1960 "The City Image and Its Elements" / Kevin Lynch -- 1961 "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety" / Jane Jacobs -- 1988 "The Design of Spaces" / William Whyte -- 1965 "A City Is Not a Tree" / Christopher Alexander -- 1969 "Nature in the Metropolis" / Ian McHarg -- 1981 "What Would a Non-sexist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work" / Dolores Hayden -- 1990 "Fortress L.A." / Mike Davis -- 1987 "Toward an Urban Design Manifesto" / Allan Jacobs and Donald Appleyard -- 1937 "What Is a City?" / Lewis Mumford -- 1938 "Urbanism as a Way of Life" / Louis Wirth -- 1947 "A City of Efficient Consumption" / Paul Goodman and Percival Goodman -- 1957 "Kinship and Community" and "Keeping Themselves to Themselves" / Michael Young and Peter Willmott -- 1966 "The Culture of Poverty" / Oscar Lewis -- 1984 "The Black Underclass" / William Julius Wilson -- 1984 "Choosing a Future" / Charles Murray -- 1981 "The City as Image" / Burton Pike -- 1992 "How to Study Urban Political Power" / John Mollenkopf -- 1995 "Regime Theory and Urban Politics" / Gerry Stoker -- 1990 "Future Directions for Urban Government in Britain and America" / Robin Hambleton -- 1994 "Place and Production in the Global Economy" / Saskia Sassen -- 1990 "The Jobs-Skills Mismatch" / John Kasarda -- 1993 "Cities and Uneven Economic Development" / Mike Savage and Alan Warde -- 1870 "Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns" / Frederick Law Olmsted -- 1898 "Author's Introduction" and "The Town-Country Magnet" / Ebenezer Howard -- 1909 "Of Cooperation in Site Planning, and How Common Enjoyment Benefits the Individual" / Raymond Unwin -- 1915 "City Survey for Town Planning Purposes, of Municipalities and Government" / Patrick Geddes -- 1929 "A Contemporary City" / Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) -- 1935 "Broadacre City: A New Community Plan" / Frank Lloyd Wright -- 1988 "The City of Theory" / Peter Hall -- 1988 "Introduction" / Frank S. So and Judith Getzels -- 1992 "A Gender Agenda: New Directions for Planning Theory" / Leonie Sandercock and Ann Forsyth -- 1965 "Advocacy and Pluralism in Planning" / Paul Davidoff -- 1987 "Planning in the Face of Conflict" / John Forester -- 1969 "Arcology: The City in the Image of Man" and "The Characteristics of Arcology" / Paolo Soleri -- 1969 "Ecumenopolis, World City of Tomorrow" / Constantin Doxiadis -- 1989 "The Pedestrian Pocket" / Peter Calthorpe -- 1994 "Technopoles: Mines and Foundries of the Informational Economy" / Manuel Castells and Peter Hall -- 1987 "Beyond Suburbia: The Rise of the Technoburb" / Robfrt Fishman -- 1989 "The Reconstruction of Social Meaning in the Space of Flows" / Manuel Castells -- 1968 "Alternative Futures for the American Ghetto" / Anthony Downs |
| Summary |
Collection of 50 texts on urban planning. Each is accompanied by a brief intellectual biography on the author, a review of the author's writings and related literature, and an explanation of how the piece relates with urban theory and practice, and other current philosophical and social issues |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Cities and towns.
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City planning.
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Urban policy.
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| Author |
LeGates, Richard T.
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Stout, Frederic, 1943-
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| LC no. |
95037262 |
| ISBN |
0415119006 |
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0415119014 (paperback) |
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