TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barnett,Jonathan
TI  - The elusive city: five centuries of design, ambition and miscalculation
SN  - 0064301559
AV  - NA9094 B37 1986
U1  - 711/.4/09 19
PY  - 1986///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper & Row
KW  - City planning
KW  - History
KW  - Local
KW  - Architecture and society
KW  - Architecture, Modern
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Garden cities
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -