Good City Form

Book

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Historic Charleston Foundation

Name/Title

Good City Form

Entry/Object ID

2014.002.113

Description

Contents: Values and Cities: Form values in urban history -- What is the form of a city, and how is it made? -- Between heaven and hell -- Three normative theories -- But is a general normative theory possible? Theory of Good City Form: Dimensions of performance -- Vitality -- Sense -- Fit -- Access -- Control -- Efficiency and justice Some Applications: City size and the idea of neighborhood -- Growth and conservation -- Urban textures and networks -- City models and city designs -- A place Utopia Epilogue: A critique Appendices: A brief review of functional theory -- A language of city patterns -- Some sources of city values -- A catalog of models of settlement 514 p. : ill. ; 23 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--Philosophy, Sociology, Urban, Cities and towns--History

Book Details

Author

Lynch, Kevin, 1918-1984

Publisher

MIT Press

Place Published

Location

Cambridge, MA

Date Published

circa 1981

Call No.

HT166 .L96 1984

ISBN

0262620464

LCCN

83024824

Notes

Copy No.: 0

Location

Location

Building

Missroon Library

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

General Notes

Note

Notes: By Kevin Lynch. Originally published: A theory of good city form. c1981. Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-483) and index.

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Create Date

December 30, 2014

Updated By

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Update Date

February 17, 2023