Repairing the American Metropolis - Common Place Revisited

Douglas Kelbaugh is professor of architecture and urban planning in Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and former principal in Kelbaugh, Calthorpe & Associates in Seattle and in Kelbaugh + Lee in Princeton, New Jersey. Among many other writings, he coauthored the national best seller The Pedestrian Pocket Book.

List of contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Suburban Sprawl: Paved with Good Intentions

2. Critical Regionalism: An Architecture of Place

3. Typology: An Architecture of Limits

4. New Urbanism: Versus Everyday Urbanism and Post Urbanism

5. Public Policy: What We Should Do A.S.A.P.

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Douglas Kelbaugh is professor of architecture and urban planning in Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and former principal in Kelbaugh, Calthorpe & Associates in Seattle and in Kelbaugh + Lee in Princeton, New Jersey. Among many other writings, he coauthored the national best seller The Pedestrian Pocket Book.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Kelbaugh, Douglas S Kelbaugh, Douglas S. Kelbaugh
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.07.2015
• EAN: 9780295996028
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99602-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Samuel and Althea Stroum Books; Samuel and Althea Stroum Books; Repairing the American Metropolis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning