Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning

by Christine Boyer and M. Christine Boyer

Book Overview

Dreaming the Rational City is both a history of the city planning profession in the United States and a major polemical statement about the effort to plan and reform the American city. Boyer shows why city planning, which had so much promise at the outset for making cities more liveable, largely failed. She reveals planning's real responsibilities and goals, including the kind of "rational order" that was actually forseen by the planning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262521113
• ISBN13: 9780262521116
• Release Date: March 1986
• Publisher: Mit Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher