Neighborhood / Emily Talen.

Main entry:

Talen, Emily, 1958- author.

Title & Author:

Neighborhood / Emily Talen.

Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

viii, 303 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-288) and index.
1. Introduction -- pt. I DEFINITION AND DESIGN -- 2. Historical Neighborhood and Its Decline -- 3. Getting the Neighborhood Back -- 4. Reinventing the Neighborhood -- pt. II DEBATES -- 5. Design Debates -- 6. Planning Problem -- 7. Self-Governed Neighborhood -- 8. Social Confusion -- 9. Neighborhoods and Segregation.

Summary:

In an effort to make neighborhoods compatible with 21st century ideals, Talen has produced a singular resource for understanding what is meant by neighborhood--a multi-dimensional, comprehensive view of what neighborhoods signify, how they're idealized and measured, and what their historical progression has been.

ISBN:

0190907495
9780190907495

Subject:

Neighborhoods.
Sociology, Urban.
Community development, Urban.
Sociologie urbaine.
Développement communautaire urbain.
urban sociology.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304400
Call No.: BIB 249968
Status: Available

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