Cities.

Main entry:

Scientific American.

Title & Author:

Cities.

Edition:

[1st ed.].

Publication:

New York, Knopf, 1965.

Description:

x, 211 pages illustrations, maps 21 cm

Series:

A Scientific American book

Notes:
Articles originally published in the September 1965 issue of Scientific American.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-206).
The urbanization of the human population / by Kingsley Davis -- The origin and evolution of cities / by Gideon Sjoberg -- The modern metropolis / by Hans Blumenfeld -- Calcutta: a premature metropolis / by Nirmal Kumar Bose -- Stockholm: a planned city / Göran Sidenbladh -- Ciudad Guayana: a new city / by Lloyd Rodwin -- New York: a metropolitan region / by Benjamin Chinitz -- The uses of land in cities / by Charles Abrams -- Transportation in cities / by John W. Dyckman -- The metabolism of cities / by Abel Wolman -- The renewal of cities / by Nathan Glazer -- The city as environment / by Kevin Lynch.

Summary:

Articles by city planners, economists, sanitation engineers, anthropologists and sociologists from all over the world.

ISBN:

0394419359
9780394419350

Subject:

Cities and towns.
Urbanization.
Cities
Villes.
Urbanisation.
cities.
urbanization.
Stadssociologie.

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Scientific American book.

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Location: Library main 28725
Call No.: W13008; ID:88-B14469
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