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Big plans : the allure and folly of urban design / Kenneth Kolson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kolson, Kenneth L., 1945-
- Series:
- Center books on contemporary landscape design
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns.
- City planning.
- Urban renewal.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- This work springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the role of rationality in public life. The author explores the part serendipity plays in urban experience.
- Contents:
- 1 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Trajan's Forum 15
- 2 The "Hidden Cities" of Ancient North America 29
- 3 Cleveland as City Beautiful 49
- 4 Utopian Visions on the Crabgrass Frontier 65
- 5 Urban Renewal: "The Bugs Are All Out" 75
- 6 The Strange Career of Advocacy Planning 89
- 7 Two Cheers for Sprawl 97
- 8 When Government Dares to Dream 125
- 9 The British Library: From Great Planning Disaster to Almost All Right 147
- 10 With Its "Doors Set Wide to the City" 165
- 11 SimCity and Our Town 177.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-224) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801866790
- OCLC:
- 45066417
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