Name/Title
Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City PlanningEntry/Object ID
2014.002.109Description
Presents a history of the city planning profession in the U.S. and a polemical statement about the effort to plan and reform the American city.
Contents: The rupture of a rural order -- The quest for disciplinary control -- In search of a spatial order -- The rise of the planning mentality -- Functional requirements of a city plan -- The barriers of municipal government and the need for urban observatories -- Zoning and the single-family home -- Traversing a regional domain -- Must American cities decay? -- To reconstruct the American city -- Planning for postwar regional cities -- An architecture of complexity -- The city of collective memory.
xii, 331 p. ; 24 cm. (softcover)Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation LibraryAcquisition
Accession
2014.002Source or Donor
New Library Catalog Records (2014)Acquisition Method
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Nomenclature 4.0
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BookNomenclature Sub-Class
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Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
City planning--United States--HistoryBook Details
Author
Boyer, M. ChristineEdition
1st paperback ed.Publisher
MIT PressDate Published
1986Call No.
HT167 .B655 1986ISBN
0262521113LCCN
835402Notes
Copy No.: 0Location
Category
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023General Notes
Note
Notes: By M. Christine Boyer.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-322) and index.Created By
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