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[Big Plans] is a book that should be read by all those people, and there seem to be more of them as week chases week, who are thinking about the fate of lower Manhattan right now.
Kenneth Kolson has lots of material: Some of what's been built in cities lately is astonishing and not in a good way.
Kolson is a passionate critic of urban schemes, with well-founded skepticism about the role rationality has played in designing them.
A fascinating read about the utopian goal of Big Plans and the dystopian reality of lived experience.
A work similar in spirit to Lewis Mumford's The City in History and Jane Jacobs' The Death and Life of Great American Cities with a distinctive postmodern tone and perspective. Wonderful, funny, idiosyncratic—Big Plans is an original. Anyone interested in cities will want to read this book. It will be of special interest to professionals and practitioners in planning, architecture, and landscape design, as well as students and scholars in architecture and planning, urban studies, geography, American studies, history, and sociology.
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Publication Date
Status
Available
Trim Size
6.125
x 9.25
Pages
256
ISBN
9780801876301
Illustration Description
54 halftones, 4 line drawings
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Trajan's Forum
Chapter 2. The "Hidden Cities" of Ancient North America
Chapter 3. Cleveland as Beautiful
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Trajan's Forum
Chapter 2. The "Hidden Cities" of Ancient North America
Chapter 3. Cleveland as Beautiful City
Chapter 4. Utopian Visions on the Crabgrass Frontier
Chapter 5. Urban Renewal: "The Bugs Are All Out"
Chapter 6. The Strange Career of Advocacy Planning
Chapter 7. Two Cheers for Sprawl
Chapter 8. When Government Dares to Dream
Chapter 9. The British Library: From Great Planning Disaster to Almost All Right
Chapter 10. With Its "Doors Set Wide to the City"
Chapter 11. SimCity and Our TownNotes
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Illustration Credits
Index
Note About the Author
