Fr. 48.60

Civitas By Design - Building Better Communities, From the Garden City to the New Urbanism

English · Paperback / Softback

Shipping usually within 2 to 3 weeks (title will be printed to order)

Description

Read more

Informationen zum Autor Howard Gillette, Jr. Klappentext Since the end of the nineteenth century, city planners have aspired not only to improve the physical living conditions of urban residents but also to strengthen civic ties through better design of built environments. From Ebenezer Howard and his vision for garden cities to today's New Urbanists, these visionaries have sought to deepen civitas, or the shared community of citizens. In Civitas by Design, historian Howard Gillette, Jr., takes a critical look at this planning tradition, examining a wide range of environmental interventions and their consequences over the course of the twentieth century. As American reform efforts moved from progressive idealism through the era of government urban renewal programs to the rise of faith in markets, planners attempted to cultivate community in places such as Forest Hills Gardens in Queens, New York; Celebration, Florida; and the post-Katrina Gulf Coast. Key figures--including critics Lewis Mumford and Oscar Newman, entrepreneur James Rouse, and housing reformer Catherine Bauer--introduced concepts such as neighborhood units, pedestrian shopping malls, and planned communities that were implemented on a national scale. Many of the buildings, landscapes, and infrastructures that planners envisioned still remain, but frequently these physical designs have proven insufficient to sustain the ideals they represented. Will contemporary urbanists' efforts to join social justice with environmentalism generate better results? Gillette places the work of reformers and designers in the context of their times, providing a careful analysis of the major ideas and trends in urban planning for current and future policy makers. Zusammenfassung Civitas by Design takes a critical look at the history of the use of urban planning to strengthen civic ties in the United States over the course of the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Progressive Reform Through Environmental Intervention 2. The Garden City in America 3. The City: Film as Artifact 4. The Evolution of Neighborhood Planning 5. The Planned Shopping Center in Suburb and City 6. James Rouse and American City Planning 7. The New Urbanism: ''Organizing Things That Matter' 8. Civitas in the Design of Low-Income Housing Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments ...

Product details

Authors Howard Gillette, Jr. Gillette, Jr. Howard Gillette, Howard Gillette Jr
Publisher University of pennsylvania pr
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 17.12.2012
 
EAN 9780812222227
ISBN 978-0-8122-2222-7
No. of pages 240
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning
Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

Customer reviews

No reviews have been written for this item yet. Write the first review and be helpful to other users when they decide on a purchase.

Write a review

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Write your own review.

For messages to CeDe.ch please use the contact form.

The input fields marked * are obligatory

By submitting this form you agree to our data privacy statement.