Main entry:

Dantzig, George B. (George Bernard), 1914-2005.

Title & Author:

Compact city; a plan for a liveable urban environment [by] George B. Dantzig [and] Thomas L. Saaty.

Publication:

San Francisco, W.H. Freeman [1973]

Description:

xi, 244 pages illustrations 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233).
Pt. 1. The proposal. Why compact city? -- Solutions -- The general plan for compact city -- The plan for transportation -- It's a bargain -- Advantages -- Where do we go from here? -- Pt. 2. Operations research and the total-system approach. Urban models -- Conservation -- Determining the general city plan -- Structure and system design -- Financial analysis -- Pt. 3. Some social implications. Accessibility : its socioeconomic effects -- Health care in future cities -- Criticism -- Culture in future cities.

Summary:

"Compact city is a nontechnical, introductory study about the feasability of building a city that makes more effective use of the vertical dimension and the time dimension (through around-the-clock use of facilities) than do present cities"--Back cover.

ISBN:

0716707845
9780716707844
0716707942 (pbk.)
9780716707943 (pbk.)

Subject:

City planning.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urbanisme 1945-
Écologie urbaine.
urban environments.
Stadsplanning.
Leefmilieu.
City planning United States.

Added entries:

Saaty, Thomas L., author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213781
Call No.: HT166 .D3 1973
Status: Available