Title & Author:

Planning for diversity and choice; possible futures and their relations to the man-controlled environment. Edited by Stanford Anderson.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass., M.I.T. Press [1968]

Description:

xii, 340 pages illustrations 24 cm

Notes:
"Documentation of a conference held at Endicott House, Dedham, Massachusetts, October 13-16, 1966, under the sponsorship of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the American Institute of Architects--Princeton Educational Research Project, and the Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
"Documentation of a conference held at Endicott House, Dedham, Massachusetts, October 13-16, 1966, under the sponsorship of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the American Institute of Architects--Princeton Educational Research Project, and the Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"--P. facing t.p.
The title of the conference was "Inventing the Future Environment". Cf. p. 3.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-334. Bibliographical footnotes).
List of contributors -- Chairmen for conference sessions -- Participants in conference discussions -- Introduction / Stanford Anderson -- Utopian thinking and the architect / I.C. Jarvie ; Discussion -- Long-range studies of the future and their role in French planning / Bernard Cazes ; Discussion -- The parameters of urban planning / Leonard J. Duhl ; Discussion -- About "Mankind 2000" / Robert Jungk ; Discussion -- The population of the United States in the last third of the twentieth century / Herbert Moller ; Discussion -- Natural resources in the changing U.S. economy / Harold J. Barnett ; Discussion -- Leisure : old patterns and new problems / Pardon E. Tillinghast -- Obsolescence and "obsolescibles" in planning for the future / Bruce Mazlish ; Discussion -- Normative planning / Paul Davidoff ; Discussion -- Ideology and architecture : dilemmas of pluralism in planning / Leonard J. Fein ; Discussion -- The triumph of technology : "can" implies "ought" / Hasan Ozbekhan ; Discussion -- Social indicators : or working in a society which has better social statistics / Raymond A. Bauer ; Discussion -- Telos and technique : models as modes of action / Marx Wartofsky ; Discussion -- Initiation of the discussion / Cedric Price ; General discussion -- Summary : planning for fullness / Stanford Anderson -- Postscript : environmental conjecture : in the jungle of the grand prediction / Melvin Charney -- Bibliography -- Index.
Also issued online.
Dust jacket.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

'Documentation of a conference held at Endicott House, Dedham, Massachusetts, October 13-16, 1966, under the sponsorship of The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the American Institute of Architects-Princeton Educational Research Project, and the Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

Subject:

City planning.
City Planning
Urbanisme.
urban planning.
Stadsplanning.
City planning Congresses

Form/genre:

Congress
Proceedings.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Anderson, Stanford, editor.
Anderson, Stanford
Jarvie, I. C. (Ian Charles), 1937-
Cazes, Bernard, 1927-
Duhl, Leonard J.
Jungk, Robert, 1913-1994
Möller, Herbert
Barnett, Harold J.
Tillinghast, Pardon E.
Mazlish, Bruce, 1923-
Davidoff, Paul, 1930-1984
Fein, Leonard J.
Ozbekhan, Hasan, 1921-2007
Bauer, Raymond Augustine, 1916-1977
Wartofsky, Marx W.
Price, Cedric
Charney, Melvin
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
American Institute of Architects--Princeton Educational Research Project.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 271407
Call No.: BIB 204500
Status: Available