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Cities, the forces that shape them.

LIBRA Folio HT119 .C57 1982
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Humphrey, Heidi, book designer.
Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Cities and towns.
Cities and towns--United States.
City planning.
City planning--United States.
Cities.
City Planning.
cities.
urban planning.
United States.
Medical Subjects:
Cities.
City Planning.
Physical Description:
87 pages : illustrations ; 42 cm
Place of Publication:
New York, N.Y. : Cooper-Hewitt Museum, ©1982.
Contents:
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 86).
ISBN:
0910503001
9780910503006
OCLC:
10403000

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