DREAMING THE RATIONAL CITY: THE MYTH OF AMERICAN CITY PLANNING
Language: English
Published by The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1983
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; This is the first paperback edition published in 1986. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. No names or marks in the text. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation. A portion of the title on the spine panel is evidently missing due to sunning? Very good condition. ; 8vo.; xii, 331 pages.
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- Title
- DREAMING THE RATIONAL CITY: THE MYTH OF AMERICAN CITY PLANNING
- Author
- Boyer, M. Christine
- Publisher
- The MIT Press, Cambridge
- Publication year
- 1983
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0262521113
- ISBN 13
- 9780262521116
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- 501 (May, 2016)
Dreaming the Rational City is both a history of the city planning profession in the United States and a major polemical statement about the effort to plan and reform the American city. Boyer shows why city planning, which had so much promise at the outset for making cities more liveable, largely failed. She reveals planning's real responsibilities and goals, including the kind of "rational order" that was actually forseen by the planning mentality, and concludes that the planners have continuously served the needs of the dominant capitalist economy.
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