Main entry:

Kolson, Kenneth L., 1945-

Title & Author:

Big plans : the allure and folly of urban design / Kenneth Kolson.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2001.

Description:

xvii, 236 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Series:

Center books on contemporary landscape design

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-224) and index.
A funny thing happened on the way to Trajan's forum. -- The "hidden cities" of ancient North America. -- Cleveland as city beautiful. -- Utopian visions on the crabgrass frontier. -- Urban renewal: "The bugs are all out". -- The strange career of advocacy planning. -- Two cheers for sprawl. -- When government dares to dream. -- The British Library: from great planning disaster to almost all right. -- With its "doors set wide to the city". -- SimCity and our town.

Summary:

This work springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the role of rationality in public life. The author explores the part serendipity plays in urban experience.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0801866790 (alk. paper)
9780801866791 (alk. paper)
080187730X
9780801877308

Subject:

Cities and towns.
City planning.
Urban renewal.
Cities
Urban Renewal
Villes.
Design urbain.
Rénovation urbaine.
cities.
urban renewal.
urban design.
Architektur
Bauentwurf
Planung
Rationalität
Stadtplanung
Stadtsanierung
Städtebau
Stadsplanning.
Steden.
Stadsvernieuwing.

Added entries:

Center books on contemporary landscape design.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 220191
Call No.: HT153 .K6 2001
Status: Available