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Hardcover. First edition. 479 pages. 28.5 x 21 cm. Voluminously illustrated with photographs, drawings. plans and maps. Bibliography. Index. 1963 National Book Award winner. An early scholarly attempt to confront "the mindless juggernaut of subtopia," which stemmed from Yale University - Connecticut Development Commission conference begun in 1950, and subsequently expanded in succeeding conferences to consider other parts of the U.S. KARPEL B621."Probably the finest one volume study of modern urban aesthetics yet assembled anywhere." From the Library of August Heckscher. Orig. gray cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper.…