Cities and City Planning. (Environment, Development and Public Policy: Cities and Development).

Rodwin, Lloyd, Hugh Evans Robert Hollister u. a.,

ISBN 10: 0306406667 / ISBN 13: 9780306406669

Published by Plenum Press, New York, 1981

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317 p. Ex-Library Book in good condition. 9780306406669 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 340.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cities and City Planning. (Environment, Development and Public Policy: Cities and Development).
• Publisher: Plenum Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306406667
• ISBN 13: 9780306406669
• Binding: Hardcover
• Weight: 340 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • AA Varia

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Synopsis

One Images of the City.- 1. The Future Can It Be Made More Humane?.- 2. Great and Terrible Cities.- 3. The Educative City.- 4. The Form of the City.- 5. Images of the City in the Social Sciences.- Two The Metropolis and New Communities in the United States.- 6. Problems of the Changing Images and Realities.- 7. Conditions for a Successful New Communities Program.- 8. The New Communities Program and Why It Failed.- Three The Metropolis and City Planning in Third World Countries.- 9. Realism and Utopianism in City A Retrospective View.- 10. Changing Perspectives on Area Development Strategies.- Four Educational Dilemmas in City Planning.- 11. Four Approaches to Urban Studies.- 12. Training City Planners in Third World Countries.- Five City Promise and Reality.- 13. On the Illusions of City Planners.- 14. The Profession of City Planning.- Acknowledgments.- Notes.