The five centuries of design, ambition and miscalculation Barnett, Jonathan. creator text bibliography nyu 1986 1st ed. monographic eng

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210 p. ill.; plans ; 25 cm. 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. 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. Jonathan Barnett. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 195-202. City planning History Architecture and society Architecture, Modern Cities and towns Garden cities NA9094 B37 1986 711/.4/09 0064301559 pucpr 140806 20210309165308.0 eng