Urban & Land Use Planning, Civil & Environmental, Geography, Human Geography, Urban, Regional Planning, Civil Engineering, Architecture, Earth Sciences, Public Policy, Sociology 

Collection of 50 texts on urban planning. Each is accompanied by a brief intellectual biography on the author, a review of the author's writings and related literature, and an explanation of how the piece relates with urban theory and practice, and other current philosophical and social issues. 

The definitively complete reader on urban problems and policies, spanning urban development from the ancient Greeks to the Internet, ranging across the contributory disciplines and comparing experiences in different continents and countries. 

Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Richard T LeGates; Frederic Stout
ISBN: 0415119006 9780415119009 0415119014 9780415119016
OCLC Number: 33044844
Description: xv, 532 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Contents: 1965 "The Urbanization of the Human Population" / Kingsley Davis --
1951 "The Urban Revolution" / V. Gordon Childe --
1951 "The Polis" / H.D.F. Kitto --
1925 "City Origins" and "Cities and European Civilization" / Henri Pirenne --
1845 "The Great Towns" / Friedrich Engels --
1899 "The Negro Problems of Philadelphia," "The Question of Earning a Living," and "Color Prejudice" / W.E.B. Dubois --
1967 "Levittown and America" / Herbert J. Gans --
1994 "A New Geography of Centers aud Margins: Summary and Implications" / Saskia Sassen --
1952 "The Almost Perfect Town" / John Brinckerhoff Jackson --
1925 "The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project" / Ernest W. Burgess --
1960 "The City Image and Its Elements" / Kevin Lynch --
1961 "The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety" / Jane Jacobs --
1988 "The Design of Spaces" / William Whyte --
1965 "A City Is Not a Tree" / Christopher Alexander --
1969 "Nature in the Metropolis" / Ian McHarg.
Responsibility: edited by Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout.