Main entry:

Sert, José Luis, 1902-1983.

Title & Author:

Can our cities survive? An ABC of urban problems, their analysis, their solutions; based on the proposals formulated by the C.I.A.M., International congresses for modern architecture, Congrès internationaux d'architecture moderne.

Publication:

Cambridge, Harvard University Press; London, H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1944 [©1942]

Description:

xi, [1], 259 pages illustrations (including maps (1 folded) plans, facsimile) diagrams 24 x 31 cm

Notes:
"Foreword" signed Joseph Hudnut; "Introduction" signed Sigfried Giedion, secretary of the C.I.A.M.
Part 1. A town-planning chart: our cities and their problems -- Part 2. Dwelling: the first urban function -- Part 3. The dwelling problem in cities is more than a slum problem -- Part 4. Requirements of dwelling areas -- Part 5. Recreation -- Part 6. Week-end and vacation recreation -- Part 7. Work -- Part 8. The evolution of the means of production has had a decisive influence upon urban structures -- Part 9. General measures for the redistribution of workplaces in cities -- Part 10. Transportation -- Part 11. A new urban street system is required -- Part 12. A total view of cities -- Part 13. Main barriers to large-scale planning -- Part 14. Planned action can save our cities -- Part 15. Man and the city -- Appendix: The aims and the statutes of the C.I.A.M.

Subject:

City planning.
Architecture.
architecture (discipline)

Added entries:

International Congresses for Modern Architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 181461
Call No.: NA44.S49.A35 1944
Status: Available