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• ISBN: 0262521113
• ISBN: 9780262521116
• Physical Description: xii, 331 pages ; 24 cm
• Edition: 1st MIT Press pbk. ed.
• Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1986.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. 1. Would America Produce a Civilization of Cities? 1890-1909 -- The Rupture of a rural Order -- The Quest for Disciplinary Control -- In Search of a Spatial Order -- pt. 2. The Disciplinary Order of Planning, 1909-1916 -- The Rise of the Planning Mentality -- Functional Requirements of a City Plan -- The Barriers of Municipal Government and the Need for Urban Observatories -- pt. 3. Superspeculation in the American City, 1916-1929 -- Zoning and the Single-Family Home -- Traversing a Regional Domain -- pt. 4. Cities and Regions in Economic Crisis, 1929-1945 -- Must American Cities Decay? -- To Reconstruct the American City -- Planning for Postwar Regional Cities -- An Architecture of Complexity -- The City of Collective Memory -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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