Title & Author:

Cities, the forces that shape them.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Cooper-Hewitt Museum, ©1982.

Description:

87 pages : illustrations ; 42 cm

Notes:
Title from cover.
Includes bibliographical references (page 86).
Editor's notes / Lisa Taylor -- Imaginary cities / J.B. Post -- The city in utopia / Ian J. Tod -- Extinct cities / Ilene M. Nicholas -- Urban development / Dora P. Crouch -- City characteristics / Sherban Cantacuzino -- Urban symbols: photo essay -- Cities: some contrasting perspectives / Lloyd Rodwin -- Favorite cities -- Third World cities / Janet Abu-Lughod -- New towns: an international overview / Gideon Golany -- Geographic factors in urban development / Brian J. L. Berry -- Cities and plans / George R. Collins -- Open spaces / August Heckscher -- Communal spaces: photo essay -- Amenities / Robert H. McNulty -- Urban rituals / Lawrence Halprin -- Urban psychology / Jonathan Freedman -- Urban stress / Herbert E. Walker and C. Ray Smith -- The American city / Thomas Bender -- The American urban geography / James E. Vance, Jr. -- Regional architectural styles / Richard B. Oliver -- Urbanity / Gerald Allen -- Contemporary cities: photo essay -- Housing in the United States / Frank S. Kristof -- High-rise living / Richard Pommer -- Anatomy of the skyscraper / Steven Holl -- Land-use regulation / Christine Boyer -- Big-city downtowns / Robert Jensen -- Toward an urban suburbia, once again / Robert A. M. Stern -- Suburban enclaves: photo essay -- American writers of the City Beautiful movement / Thomas S. Hines -- Cities in literature: selected quotations -- Christian architecture & urban context / G. E. Kidder Smith.
The corporation as a client / Charles K. Hoyt -- American civic architecture / Richard Guy Wilson -- Cultural planning / Wolf Von Eckardt -- Building styles: photo essay -- Vernacular architecture / Frances Hundt -- New preservation / Michael Ainslie -- Urban archeology / Bert Salwen -- Urban life: photo essay -- Managing cities / Paul D. Epstein -- Urban economics / Richard M. Rosan -- Labor in urban America / A.H. Raskin -- Productivity / Robert W. Mason -- Immigrants / Theodore Hershberg -- The black ghetto / Michael Meyers -- Cities: the perspective of censuses / Larry H. Long -- The fragile city / Herbert J. Gans -- Supply lines / Edwin Schlossberg -- Sustainable cities / Sim Van der Ryn -- Energy efficiency / Richard Koral -- The urban solar transition / Barry Commoner -- Urban refuse / Charles Gunnerson and Sandra Johnson Cointreau -- Temporary cities / Carter Wiseman -- Urban graveyards / F. Andrus Burr -- The urban underground / Mary Plumb Blade -- Urban growth / Melvin M. Webber -- Arteries: photo essay -- Subway Construction / Boris Pushkarev -- Transportation: photo essay -- Urban transportation: today & tomorrow / C. Kenneth Orski -- The end of cities? / Peter Blake -- Visions of the future of cities -- Conceptual projects: photo essay -- Beyond 1984: the people machine / Ray Bradbury.

ISBN:

0910503001 (pbk.)
9780910503006 (pbk.)

Subject:

Cities and towns.
Cities and towns United States.
City planning.
City planning United States.
Cities
City Planning
Villes.
Villes États-Unis.
Urbanisme.
Urbanisme États-Unis.
cities.
urban planning.
United States

Added entries:

Humphrey, Heidi, book designer.
Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 50727
Call No.: IDM; ID:89-B9621
Status: Available