The Urban Pattern : City Planning and Design

446 Pages Indexed. June 1957 Edition. Tan cloth boards with maroon lettering. Owner's name on front endpapeer. Some light moisture exposure on the first fifteen page barely noticeable. Red underlining on many if not most of the first 65 pages. Very noticeable. Remainder of text is flawless. Illustrated throughout. Those of us who live in cities find our daily existence conditioned largely by the physical environment of the urban community. This book is about that environment and how it is planned and build. In, tracing the historical development of the physical form of cities it is apparent that the social order of the times has invariably fixed its impression upon the shape the form and arrangement-of cities. The cities we build today are the great designs produced by our democratic society; the urban enviroment-the living and working environment of the whole urban enviroment-is linked with the welfare of democratic institutions. Nearly every enterprise in which people engage, wether it is domestic or production and trade, is affected by and, in turn, shapes the design of cities. Real estate and finance, the social sciences and economics, the law, public adminstration and political science, architecture and building, engineering and the arts, all are woven into the physical pattern of the city. This book attempts a critical examination of the processes by which cities are planned and built, appraises some of the results, describes some of the defects, and pose a few suggestions, which may be sufficiently provocative to warrent more than passing attention. This book attempts a critical examination of the processes by which cities are planned and built. From the Preface - March 1950. Contents in Six Parts: The City of the Past, The Industrial City, The City of Today, The Planning Process, Contemporary Standards, and New Horizons.…