Planning a Pluralist City: Conflicting Realities in Ciudad Guayana

by Donald Appleyard

When city planners and designers are given the ideal assignment-to build a new city in the wilderness, unencumbered by an existing urban matrix-and, at the same time, the site is located in the midst of a resource-rich region that attracts a rapid influx of people who proceed to build for themselves a burgeoning boomtown of indigenous settlements, planned without planners, conflicts are almost inevitable. This book, based on the experience of Ciudad...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262010445
• ISBN13: 9780262010443
• Release Date: August 1976
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 322 Pages