The city in mind:meditations on the urban condition
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Published: |
Free Press,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | c2001. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xv, 272: ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
0684845911 0743227239 |
Index Number: | C912 |
CLC: | C912.81 |
Call Number: | C912.81/K966 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Paris : the achievements of Napoleon III and Georges Eugène Haussman -- Atlanta : does Edge City have a future? -- Mexico City : the end of the world and other cataclysms -- Berlin : the paradoxes of history -- Las Vegas : utopia of clowns -- Rome : in search of the classical -- Boston : overcoming history and modernism -- London : landscape as the cure for cities. |