Man and the modern city [by] Edmund N. Bacon [and others] Edited by Elizabeth Geen, Jeanne R. Lowe [and] Kenneth Walker

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geen, Elizabeth, 1903-2002.

Contributor:

Bacon, Edmund N.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban.

Physical Description:

xii, 134 p. ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1963]

Contents:

Preface, by O. F. Krauschaar.

Introduction.

The limitations of utilitarianism as a basis for determining urban joy, by J. E. Burchard.

The city image, by E. N. Bacon.

The promise of the city, by L. K. Frank.

The anti-city, by W. H. Whyte.

Living with the coming urban technology, by R. L. Meier.

What are the economic, social, and political choices? By J. S. Clark.

The challenge of the city to the liberal arts college, by R. C. Lee.

Continuing education for urbanism, by E. I. Johnson.

The American suburb: boy's town in a man's world, by R. C. Wood.

Suburbia reconsidered: diversity and the creative life, by D. Lee.

Notes:

Essays presented during the academic year 1959-60 as the principal event in the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the founding of Goucher College.

OCLC:

261247