Main Title |
Big plans : the allure and folly of urban design / |
Author |
Kolson, Kenneth L.
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Publisher |
Johns Hopkins University Press, |
Year Published |
2001 |
OCLC Number |
45066417 |
ISBN |
0801866790 (alk. paper) |
Subjects |
Cities and towns ;
City planning ;
Urban renewal ;
Villes ;
Design urbain ;
R enovation urbaine
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
EIAM |
HT153K64 2001 |
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Region 2 Library/New York,NY |
03/12/2004 |
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Collation |
xvii, 236 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. {217}-224) and index. |
Contents Notes |
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. 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. |
Place Published |
Baltimore : |
PUB Date Free Form |
c2001. |
Series Title Traced |
Center books on contemporary landscape design |
BIB Level |
m |
Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
LCCN |
00011532 |
OCLC Time Stamp |
20040309121644 |
Language |
eng |
Origin |
OCLC |
Type |
CAT |
OCLC Rec Leader |
01721cam 2200349 a 45010 |