Main entry:

Greenberg, Mike, 1947-

Title & Author:

The poetics of cities : designing neighborhoods that work / Mike Greenberg.

Publication:

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c1995.

Description:

xiv, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Urban life and urban landscape series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-288).
A Confessional Preface: Why I Wrote This Book -- Pt. I. A Theory of Cities. 1. The Map and the Community. 2. Porches, Sidewalks, and the Gift Community. 3. What Is the City About? -- Pt. II. A Practice of Cities. 4. The Urban Matrix. 5. Sidewalks and the Dance of the Street. 6. The Neighborhood: People like Us. 7. Urban Form: The Whole and Its Parts. 8. The Market Place: Where Exchange Happens. 9. The Asphalt Bungle, or: How Can the City Cross the Road? -- Pt. III. Policy and Politics. 10. The Politics and Promise of Poetics. 11. The Stakes -- Appendix: Creating an Urban Matrix.

ISBN:

0814206565 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780814206560
0814206573 (paper : acid-free paper)
9780814206577

Subject:

City planning United States.
Neighborhood planning United States.
Community development, Urban United States.
Quartiers (Urbanisme) Planification États-Unis.
Développement communautaire urbain États-Unis.
City planning.
Community development, Urban.
Neighborhood planning.
United States.

Added entries:

Urban life and urban landscape series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 207256
Call No.: HT167 .G7 1995
Status: Available