Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning

Name/Title

Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning

Entry/Object ID

2014.002.109

Description

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 Library

Acquisition

Accession

2014.002

Source or Donor

New Library Catalog Records (2014)

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

City planning--United States--History

Book Details

Author

Boyer, M. Christine

Edition

1st paperback ed.

Publisher

MIT Press

Place Published

Location

Cambridge, MA

Date Published

1986

Call No.

HT167 .B655 1986

ISBN

0262521113

LCCN

835402

Notes

Copy No.: 0

Location

Location

Building

Missroon Library

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

General Notes

Note

Notes: By M. Christine Boyer. Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-322) and index.

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Create Date

December 30, 2014

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Update Date

February 16, 2023