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Cities and City Planning

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Images of the City

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The Future Metropolis

      • Lloyd Rodwin
      Pages 3-7
    3. Great and Terrible Cities

      • Lloyd Rodwin
      Pages 8-18
    4. The Educative City

      • Michael Southworth
      Pages 19-29
    5. The Form of the City

      • Kevin Lynch
      Pages 30-60
    6. Images of the City in the Social Sciences

      • Robert Hollister
      Pages 61-78
  3. The Metropolis and New Communities in the United States

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
    2. Problems of the Metropolis

      • Lloyd Rodwin
      Pages 81-101
    3. Conditions for a Successful New Communities Program

      • Lawrence Susskind
      Pages 102-114
  4. The Metropolis and City Planning in Third World Countries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
    2. Realism and Utopianism in City Planning

      • Lloyd Rodwin
      Pages 139-159
  5. Educational Dilemmas in City Planning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
    2. Four Approaches to Urban Studies

      • Lloyd Rodwin
      Pages 189-209
  6. City Planning: Promise and Reality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227
    2. On the Illusions of City Planners

      • Lloyd Rodwin
      Pages 229-255
    3. The Profession of City Planning

      • Lloyd Rodwin
      Pages 256-271

Authors and Affiliations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

    Lloyd Rodwin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cities and City Planning

  • Authors: Lloyd Rodwin, Hugh Evans, Robert Hollister, Kevin Lynch, Michael Southworth, Lawrence Susskind

  • Series Title: Environment, Development and Public Policy: Cities and Development

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1089-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-1091-4Published: 25 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-1089-1Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 309

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning

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