City Design: Modernist, Traditional, Green and Systems Perspectives

by Jonathan Barnett

City Design describes the history and current practice of the four most widely accepted approaches to city design: the Modernist city of towers and highways that, beginning in the 1920s, has come to dominate urban development worldwide but is criticized as mechanical and soul-less; the Traditional organization of cities as streets and public places, scorned by the modernists, but being revived today for its human scale; Green city design, whose...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113889933X
• ISBN13: 9781138899339
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.6" x 10.7"