Building the urban environment : visions of the organic city in the United States, Europe, and Latin America /
"Building the Urban Environment is a comparative study of the contestation among planners, policymakers, and the grassroots over the production and meaning of urban space. Award-winning historian Harold Platt presents case studies of seven cities, including Rotterdam, Chicago, and Sao Paulo, to...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Urban life, landscape, and policy.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: planners, policy makers, and the grass roots
- 1. Growing the organic city, 1890-1945
- 2. Running the modernization race, 1945-1960
- 3. Case studies, 1945-1960
- 4. Uprising against the planners, 1960-1968
- 5. Case studies, 1960-1968
- 6. Constructing the organic city, 1968-1980
- 7. Case studies, 1968-1980
- Conclusions: city of flows, city of citizens.
