The city reader / edited by Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout.
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996Description: xv, 532 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415119006
- 9780415119009
- 0415119014
- 9780415119016
- 307.76 20
- HT151 .C586 1996
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307.76 CAS The Castells reader on cities and social theory / | 307.76 CHE Shape of community : realization of human potential / | 307.76 CIT City life essays on urban culture / | 307.76 CIT The city reader / | 307.76 CIT Cities in competition : productive and sustainable cities for the 21st century / | 307.76 CIT The city cultures reader / | 307.76 CIT The city : critical concepts in the social sciences / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1965 "The Urbanization of the Human Population" / Kingsley Davis -- 1951 "The Urban Revolution" / V. Gordon Childe -- 1951 "The Polis" / H. D. F. Kitto -- 1925 "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization" / Henri Pirenne -- 1845 "The Great Towns" / Friedrich Engels -- 1899 "The Negro Problems of Philadelphia," "The Question of Earning a Living," and "Color Prejudice" / W. E. B. Dubois -- 1967 "Levittown and America" / Herbert J. Gans -- 1994 "A New Geography of Centers aud Margins: Summary and Implications" / Saskia Sassen -- 1952 "The Almost Perfect Town" / John Brinckerhoff Jackson -- 1925 "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project" / Ernest W. Burgess -- 1960 "The City Image and Its Elements" / Kevin Lynch -- 1961 "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety" / Jane Jacobs -- 1988 "The Design of Spaces" / William Whyte -- 1965 "A City Is Not a Tree" / Christopher Alexander -- 1969 "Nature in the Metropolis" / Ian McHarg.
Collection of 50 texts on urban planning. Each is accompanied by a brief intellectual biography on the author, a review of the author's writings and related literature, and an explanation of how the piece relates with urban theory and practice, and other current philosophical and social issues.
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