Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning - Couverture rigide

Boyer, M. Christine

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0262021862 ISBN 13 : 9780262021869

Editeur : The MIT Press, 1983

Synopsis

Dreaming the Rational City is both a history of the city planning profession in the United States and a major polemical statement about the effort to plan and reform the American city. Boyer shows why city planning, which had so much promise at the outset for making cities more liveable, largely failed. She reveals planning's real responsibilities and goals, including the kind of "rational order" that was actually forseen by the planning mentality, and concludes that the planners have continuously served the needs of the dominant capitalist economy.

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À propos de l'auteur

M. Christine Boyer is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor in the School of Architecture at Princeton University and the author of Dreaming the Rational City, The City of Collective Memory (both published by the MIT Press), Le Corbusier: Homme de Lettres, and other books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262021862
• ISBN 13: 9780262021869
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 344
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• Personne responsable: non disponible