01914nam a2200361Ia 4500 pucpr 20210309165308.0 140806s1986 nyuae b 001 0 eng 0064301559 pucpr eng rda pucpr pucpr CARIBET NA9094 B37 1986 711/.4/09 19 Barnett, Jonathan. 199685 The elusive city : five centuries of design, ambition and miscalculation. Jonathan Barnett. txt 1st ed. New York : Harper & Row, 1986. 210 p. ill.; plans ; 25 cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc 298015 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. City planning History. 73701 Local Architecture and society. 54083 Local 54088 Architecture, Modern Local 73674 Cities and towns 101047 Garden cities lcc 6 1st ed. NA9094 General B37 1986 244772 244772 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2016-05-27 donativo 10.00 525962 1 General NA9094 B37 1986 91000000040022 2016-09-12 00:00:00 2016-09-09 1 20.00 6