Entrée principale:

Boyer, M. Christine.

Titre et auteur:

Dreaming the rational city : the myth of American city planning / M. Christine Boyer.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1983.

Description:

xii, 331 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index.
pt. 1. Would America Produce a Civilization of Cities? 1890-1909 -- The Rupture of a rural Order -- The Quest for Disciplinary Control -- In Search of a Spatial Order -- pt. 2. The Disciplinary Order of Planning, 1909-1916 -- The Rise of the Planning Mentality -- Functional Requirements of a City Plan -- The Barriers of Municipal Government and the Need for Urban Observatories -- pt. 3. Superspeculation in the American City, 1916-1929 -- Zoning and the Single-Family Home -- Traversing a Regional Domain -- pt. 4. Cities and Regions in Economic Crisis, 1929-1945 -- Must American Cities Decay? -- To Reconstruct the American City -- Planning for Postwar Regional Cities -- An Architecture of Complexity -- The City of Collective Memory -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN:

0262021862
9780262021869

Sujet:

City planning United States History.
Urbanisme États-Unis Histoire.
City planning
Geschichte
Stadtplanung
Stadsplanning.
United States
USA
United States Cities Environment planning, 1890-1945

Classification/genre:

History

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 65314
Cote: PO3263; ID:85-B9087
Statut: Disponible