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Building the urban environment : visions of the organic city in the United States, Europe, and Latin America
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Building the urban environment : visions of the organic city in the United States, Europe, and Latin America / Harold L. Platt.
ISBN
9781439912362
143991236X
9781439912379
1439912378
9781439912386
Publication
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2015.
Physical Description
301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Summary
History and critique of post-World War II urban planning explores its effects on the environment, race, labor, housing, and municipal administration.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 26, 2016
Series
Urban life, landscape, and policy
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-290) and index.
Contents
Constructing modernism. Introduction : planners, policy makers, and the grass roots ; Growing the organic city, 1890-1945 ; Running the modernization race, 1945-1960 ; Case studies, 1945-1960
Deconstructing modernism. Uprising against the planners, 1960-1968 ; Case studies, 1960-1968 ; Constructing the organic city, 1968-1980 ; Case studies, 1968-1980 ; Conclusions : city of flows, city of citizens.
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