Civitas by Design Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism

Name: Civitas by Design Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism
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ISBN: 9780812222227

ISBN-10: 0812222229

ISBN-13: 9780812222227

Edition: 2010

Authors: Howard Gillette, Howard Gillette

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Since the end of the nineteenth century, city planners have aspired not only to improve the physical living conditions of urban residents but to strengthen civic ties through better design of built environments. From Ebenezer Howard and his vision for garden cities to today's New Urbanists, these visionaries have sought to deepen civitas, or the shared community of citizens.InCivitas by Design, historian Howard Gillette, Jr., takes a critical look at this planning tradition, examining a wide range of environmental interventions and their consequences over the course of the twentieth century. As American reform efforts moved from progressive idealism through the era of government urban…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 12/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Introduction



Progressive Reform Through Environmental Intervention



The Garden City in America



The City: Film as Artifact



The Evolution of Neighborhood Planning



The Planned Shopping Center in Suburb and City



James Rouse and American City Planning



The New Urbanism: ''Organizing Things That Matter'



Civitas in the Design of Low-Income Housing


Conclusion


Notes


Index


Acknowledgments