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Garden Cities 21: Creating a Livable Urban Environment [Hardcover]

John Simonds (Author)

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Publication Date: December 1, 1993 | ISBN-10: 0070576203 | ISBN-13: 978-0070576209 | Edition: 1

"What can be done to create more efficient, safe, fulfilling, and livable cities?" In the face of worsening traffic snarls, an endangered environment, urban decay, and other ills of the late 20th century, a premier landscape architect shows us a workable conceptual model for the future city. Simonds views the city as an organic whole, analyzes its components, and shows how cities can be made vital, functional, and beautiful - with protected areas of field and forest, and "blue and green open space frameworks".

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``Incorporates many of the best solutions to urban problems, along with some provocative ideas.'' (Planning Magazine )

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Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (December 1, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0070576203
ISBN-13: 978-0070576209
Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.8 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,348,787 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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It seems reasonable that a discourse on urban living should start with the dwelling unit. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vehicular trafficways, urban activity centers, open space frame, parking compounds, natural drainageways, urban subcenters, open space system, metro government, circulation drives, civic action groups, urban metropolis, building frontage, conceptual plan, institutional grounds, underlying topography, outer city, utility easements

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United States, San Francisco, Sir Ebenezer Howard, New York, New Orleans, San Diego

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This book cites 31 books:

Landscape Architecture: A Manual of Site Planning and Design by John O. Simonds in Front Matter, and Back Matter
Encyclopedia Of Architecture: The Complete Guide to Architecture, from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century [The Classic 1867 Edition] (Illustrated with 1400 Drawings) by Joseph Gwilt in Front Matter, and Back Matter
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs on page 211, and Back Matter
Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics) by George Perkins Marsh on page 53, and Back Matter
The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community by Peter Katz in Back Matter

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Landscape Architecture: A Manual of Site Planning and Design by John O. Simonds in Back Matter
Urban Planning in a Changing World: The Twentieth Century Experience (Planning, History and Environment Series) by Robert Freestone on page 97

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