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Author:

McQuade, Walter, comp.

Title:

Cities fit to live in and how we can make them happen; recent articles on the urban environment. Edited and with a foreword by Walter McQuade.

Publisher:

Macmillan

Copyright Date:

1971

Description:

viii, 152 p. illus., maps, plans. 29 cm.

Subject:

Cities and towns--United States.
Urban ecology (Sociology)--United States.
Urban policy--United States.
Planejamento Territorial Urbano
Villes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Urban violence and contemporary defensive cities, by R. Gold.--The trial of LeRoi Jones, by L. Campbell.--"Welcome to Marina City" - The shape of the new style, by R. Blumhorst.--Narcotics: root of urban tension, by G. Miller.--Garbage, or can we ever get away from it all? By R. Starr.--Major changes in environmental form required by social and psychological demands, by C. Alexander.--Planning and using resurrection city, by J. Wiebenson.--Center of action, by R. Montgomery.--Thamesmead.--How New York's zoning was changed to induce the construction of legitimate theaters, by R. Weinstein.--Special districts: a departure from the concept of uniform controls, by A. Fonoroff.--Advocacy and the urban poor, by M. Kaplan.--Absentee planning and the integrated society, by J. V. Cunningham.--Community involvement, pros and cons, by J. Finrow.--The Yorkville community and Gimbels.--The political collapse of a playground, by M. Spivack.--Urban poverty, ragpickers, and the "Ants' Villa" in Tokyo, by K. Taira.

Series:

Urban environment, no. 1

LCCN:

76158069

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)