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Dispersed City of the Plains
Contributor(s): Stone, Harris (Author), Stone, Joan (Author), Carswell, J. William (Author)
ISBN: 0853459932     ISBN-13: 9780853459934
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
OUR PRICE:   $17.10  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 1998
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Annotation: "With Sao Paulo, Tokyo, New Delhi, Mexico City, and Teheran rapidly approaching densities that are environmentally and emotionally unfit for human habitation, the need for urban planning has never been more pressing. Dispersed City of the Plains inventively pumps fresh air into the debate about what constitutes city building at the end of the twentieth century. It is a book that not only questions authority but supplies an alternative vision."
"--James Stewart Polshek, FAIA, Polshek and Partners"

Stone argues that the formation of towns has been based largely on the play of economic forces, without sentiment or prior attachment to place. In envisioning humane and rational improvements, he suggests that older notions of settlement be left behind in order to come to terms with the unfolding realities of the dispersed city.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science
- Architecture
- Social Science | Sociology - Urban
Dewey: 720.470
LCCN: 97-26930
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 8.01" W x 9.98" (0.94 lbs) 192 pages
Themes:
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
 
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With São Paulo, Tokyo, New Delhi, Mexico City, and Teheran rapidly approaching densities that are environmentally and emotionally unfit for human habitation, the need for urban planning has never been more pressing. Dispersed City of the Plains inventively pumps fresh air into the debate about what constitutes city building at the end of the twentieth century. It is a book that not only questions authority but supplies an alternative vision.
--James Stewart Polshek, FAIA, Polshek and Partners
Stone argues that the formation of towns has been based largely on the play of economic forces, without sentiment or prior attachment to place. In envisioning humane and rational improvements, he suggests that older notions of settlement be left behind in order to come to terms with the unfolding realities of the dispersed city.

Contributor Bio(s): Stone, Harris: -

Harris Stone was professor of architecture at the School of Architecture and Urban Design, University of Kansas until his death in 1995.