The city reader
by LeGates, Richard T. Stout, Frederic
"The fifth edition of the highly successful City Reader juxtaposes the best classic and contemporary writings on the city. It contains fifty-seven selections including seventeen new contributions by experts including Elijah Anderson, Robert Bruegmann, Michael Dear, Jan Gehl, Harvey Molotch, Clarence Perry, Daphne Spain, Nigel Taylor, Samuel Bass Warner, and others - some of which have been newly written exclusively for The City Reader. Classic writings from Ebenezer Howard, Ernest W. Burgess, L…
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- Full title :The city reader / edited by Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout.
Summary
"The fifth edition of the highly successful City Reader juxtaposes the best classic and contemporary writings on the city. It contains fifty-seven selections including seventeen new contributions by experts including Elijah Anderson, Robert Bruegmann, Michael Dear, Jan Gehl, Harvey Molotch, Clarence Perry, Daphne Spain, Nigel Taylor, Samuel Bass Warner, and others - some of which have been newly written exclusively for The City Reader. Classic writings from Ebenezer Howard, Ernest W. Burgess, LeCorbusier, Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs and Louis Wirth, meet the best contemporary writings of Sir Peter Hall, Manuel Castells, David Harvey, Kenneth Jackson. This edition of The City Reader has been extensively updated and expanded to reflect the latest thinking in each of the disciplinary areas included and in topical areas such as sustainable urban development, climate change, globalization, and the impact of technology on cities. The plate sections have been extensively revised and expanded and a new plate section on global cities has been added. The anthology features general and section introductions and introductions to the selected articles. New to the fifth edition is a bibliography listing over 100 of the top books for those studying Cities"--Publisher.
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- Publication Date:2011.
- Edition:5th ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
Notes
Includes index.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxii, 624 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 26 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780415556644, 0415556643, 9780415556651, 0415556651
- oclc:ocn647772495
- LC Classification:HT151
- Dewey Decimal:307.76
Table of Contents
Prologue : How to study cities -- Part 1. The evolution of cities : The urbanization of the human population / Kingsley Davis -- The urban revolution / V. Gordon Chide -- The polis / H.D.F. Kitto -- The great towns / Friedrich Engels -- Evolution and transformation: the American industrial metropolis, 1840-1940 / Sam Bass Warner -- The drive-in culture of contemporary America / Kenneth T. Jackson -- Beyond suburbia: the rise of the technoburb / Robert Fishman -- Photo section : The evolution of cities -- Part 2. Urban culture and society : What is a city? / Lewis Mumford -- Urbanism as a way of life / Louis Wirth -- The uses of sidewalks: safety / Jane Jacobs -- The Negro problems of Philadelphia ; The question of earning a living ; Color prejudice / W.E.B. Du Bois -- From institutional to jobless ghettos / William Julius Wilson -- The code of the street ; Decent and street families / Elijah Anderson -- Bowling alone: America's declining social capital / Robert D. Putnam -- The creative class / Richard Florida -- Visions of a new reality: the city and the emergence of modern visual culture / Frederic Stout -- Plate section : Visions of a new reality -- Part 3. Urban space : The gr…
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