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About this book
Big Plans: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the role of rationality in public life. Inspired by the architectural and urban criticism of such writers as Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and John Brinckerhoff Jackson, Kolson adopts a user's perspective on issues of urban design, an approach that highlights both the futility of social engineering and the resilience of the human spirit.
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Topic
ArchitectureSubtopic
Urban Planning & LandscapingTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Trajanâs Forum
- 2 The âHidden Citiesâ of Ancient North America
- 3 Cleveland as City Beautiful
- 4 Utopian Visions on the Crabgrass Frontier
- 5 Urban Renewal: âThe Bugs Are All Outâ
- 6 The Strange Career of Advocacy Planning
- 7 Two Cheers for Sprawl
- 8 When Government Dares to Dream
- 9 The British Library: From Great Planning Disaster to Almost All Right
- 10 With Its âDoors Set Wide to the Cityâ
- 11 SimCity and Our Town
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index