City Planning
A Very Short Introduction
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- Paperback
168 pages
- Release Date
14 August 2020
Summary
City planning is a practice and a profession, a set of goals and sometimes utopian aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments calls on the same range of disciplines and approaches that we use for understanding cities themselves, from art and literature through the social and natural sciences. Surrounding the core profession of city planning, also known as urban or town planning, are related fields of architecture, landscape design, engin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780190944346 |
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| ISBN-10: | 019094434X |
| Author: | Carl Abbott |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 168 |
| Release Date: | 14 August 2020 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 173mm x 109mm x 5mm |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
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About The Author
Carl Abbott
Carl Abbott is Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University. He is the author or editor of many books, including The New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities and How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America.
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