The Fractured Metropolis: Improving the New City, Restoring the Old City, Reshaping the Region

by Jonathan Barnett

Book Overview

This book provides a thorough analysis of cities and the entire metropolitan region, considering how both are intrinsically linked and influence one other, targeted at architects, students, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, and city and regional officials.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0064302229
• ISBN13: 9780064302227
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Required Reading on the State of the City

Barnett wrote the one book that seems to summarize all that I have read about contemporary urban planning issues. A hot topic everywhere- but especially in the Sunbelt- this book shows us all where we can go from here. Lots of good examples and illustrations. Excellent suggestions for further reading in the back if you are interested. This is more than a psalm of New Urbanism.