01733nam a2200325Ia 4500003000600000005001700006008004100023020001500064040003400079050002100113082001800134100002300152245010300175250001200278264003700290300004100327336002600368337002800394338002700422440001800449500002000467504003000487505020500517520054200722650003501264650003701299650003201336650002101368650001801389pucpr20210309165308.0140806s1986 nyuae b 001 0 eng  a0064301559 apucprbengerdacpucprdpucpr00aNA9094bB37 198600a711/.4/092191 aBarnett, Jonathan.14aThe elusive city :bfive centuries of design, ambition and miscalculation.cJonathan Barnett.htxt a1st ed. aNew York :bHarper & Row,c1986. a210 p.bill.; plans ; c25 cm.fbook 2rdacontentatextbtxt 2rdamediaaunmediadedbn 2rdacarrieravolumebnc aIcon Editions aIncludes index. aBibliography: p. 195-202. aPreindustrial 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. aEncapsulates 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. 0aCity planningxHistory.2Local 0aArchitecture and society.2Local 0aArchitecture, Modern2Local 0aCities and towns 0aGarden cities