Cities fit to live in and how we can make them happen : recent articles on the urban environment / edited and with a foreword by Walter McQuade.

Title & Author:

Cities fit to live in and how we can make them happen : recent articles on the urban environment / edited and with a foreword by Walter McQuade.

Publication:

New York, Macmillan [1971]

Description:

viii, 152 pages illustrations, maps, plans 29 cm.

Series:

Urban environment, no. 1

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Urban violence and contemporary defensive cities, by R. Gold. -- The trial of LeRoi Jones, by L. Campbell. -- "Welcome to Marina City" -- The shape of the new style, by R. Blumhorst. -- Narcotics: root of urban tension, by G. Miller. -- Garbage, or can we ever get away from it all? By R. Starr. -- Major changes in environmental form required by social and psychological demands, by C. Alexander. -- Planning and using resurrection city, by J. Wiebenson. -- Center of action, by R. Montgomery. -- Thamesmead. -- How New York's zoning was changed to induce the construction of legitimate theaters, by R. Weinstein. -- Special districts: a departure from the concept of uniform controls, by A. Fonoroff. -- Advocacy and the urban poor, by M. Kaplan. -- Absentee planning and the integrated society, by J.V. Cunningham. -- Community involvement, pros and cons, by J. Finrow. -- The Yorkville community and Gimbels. -- The political collapse of a playground, by M. Spivack. -- Urban poverty, ragpickers, and the "Ants' Villa" in Tokyo, by K. Taira.

ISBN:

0020877005
9780020877004

Subject:

Cities and towns United States.
Urban ecology (Sociology) United States.
Urban policy United States.
Cities and towns.
Cities
Villes.
Villes États-Unis.
Écologie urbaine États-Unis.
Politique urbaine États-Unis.
cities.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urban policy
Planejamento Territorial Urbano.
United States
United States Urban communities Social planning Essays

Added entries:

McQuade, Walter, editor, writer of foreword.
McQuade, Walter
Urban environment ; no. 1.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 116677
Call No.: W10098; ID:85-B19430
Status: Available

Location: Library main 116678
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Status: Available

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