Barnett, Jonathan.

The elusive city : five centuries of design, ambition and miscalculation / Jonathan Barnett.

1st ed.

New York : Harper & Row, ©1986.

210 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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Encapsulates 500 years of urban planning. Barnett, an urban designer, is skeptical about the possibility of successful urban design, given the matrix of powerful social and economic forces within which the profession must operate. As a keen student of Jane Jacobs's Death and Life of Great American Cities , he is unafraid of the street, and he knows the pitfalls of unbridled idealism as well. This is neither a textbook nor a social and architectural history, but rather, uniquely, a survey of design strategies, pithy and provocative.

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City planning History.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture and society.
Architecture History.
Urbanisme Histoire.
Architecture Histoire.
Architecture et société.
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Localisation: Bibliothèque main 68115
Cote: ID:86-B10115
Statut: Disponible