Ethics and Urban Design: Culture, Form, and Environment

by Gideon S. Golany

Book Overview

"The city," according to urban design scholar Gideon Golany, is"the largest and most complicated project ever produced byhumankind." In Ethics and Urban Design, he challenges designprofessionals to reexamine their basic assumptions about the urbanenvironment and offers design strategies based on enduring humanvalues.

In search of answers to the paradoxical problems of the moderncity, Golany takes the reader through the sweep of humansettlements...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471122742
• ISBN13: 9780471122746
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.2" x 10.2"