The elusive city : five centuries of design, ambition and miscalculation. txt
Jonathan Barnett.
- 1st ed.
- 210 p. ill.; plans ; 25 cm. book
- Icon Editions .
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 195-202.
Preindustrial Traditions -- The Monumental City -- The Garden City and Garden Suburb -- The Modern City -- Megastructures: The city as a Building -- The Elusive City -- Bibliographical Notes -- Index.
Encapsulates 500 years of urban planning. Barnett, an urban designer, is skeptical about the possibility of successful urban design, given the matrix of powerful social and economic forces within which the profession must operate. As a keen student of Jane Jacobs's Death and Life of Great American Cities , he is unafraid of the street, and he knows the pitfalls of unbridled idealism as well. This is neither a textbook nor a social and architectural history, but rather, uniquely, a survey of design strategies, pithy and provocative.
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City planning--History. Architecture and society. Architecture, Modern Cities and towns Garden cities