Title & Author:

The city reader / edited by Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

Description:

xv, 532 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
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.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0415119006
9780415119009
0415119014 (pbk.)
9780415119016 (pbk.)

Subject:

Urban policy.
Cities and towns.
City planning.
Small cities.
Cities
City Planning
Politique urbaine.
Petites villes.
Urbanisme.
Villes.
cities.
towns.
urban planning.
Stadtentwicklung
Stadtgeografie
Stadtplanung
Stadsplanning.
Urbanisatie.
Stedelijk beleid.
Sociologia urbana.
Geografia urbana.
Cidade (sociologia)
Planos diretores (planejamento territorial)

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

LeGates, Richard T.
Stout, Frederic, 1943-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 121641
Call No.: ID HT151.C5; ID:96-B743
Status: Available