Repairing the American Metropolis: Common Place Revisited (Samuel and Althea Stroum Books)

Repairing The American Metropolis Is Based On Douglas Kelbaugh's Common Place: Toward Neighborhood And Regional Design, First Published In 1997. It Is More Timely And Significant Than Ever, With New Text, Charts, And Images On Architecture, Sprawl, And New Urbanism, A Movement That He Helped Pioneer. Theory And Policies Have Been Revised, Refined, Updated, And Developed As Compelling Ways To Plan And Design The Built Environment. This Is An Indispensable Book For Architects, Urban Designers And Planners, Landscape Architects, Architecture And Urban Planning Students And Scholars, Government Officials, Developers, Environmentalists, And Citizens Interested In Understanding And Shaping The American Metropolis.--jacket. Suburban Sprawl: Paved With Good Intentions -- Critical Regionalism: An Architecture Of Place -- Typology: An Architecture Of Limits -- New Urbanism: Versus Everyday Urbanism And Post Urbanism -- Public Policy: What We Should Do A.s.a.p. Douglas S. Kelbaugh. A Samuel And Althea Stroum Book. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 205-215) And Index. "Repairing the American Metropolis is based on Douglas Kelbaugh's Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design, first published in 1997. It is more timely and significant than ever, with new text, charts, and images on architecture, sprawl, and New Urbanism, a movement that he helped pioneer. Theory and policies have been revised, refined, updated, and developed as compelling ways to plan and design the built environment.". "This is an indispensable book for architects, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, architecture and urban planning students and scholars, government officials, developers, environmentalists, and citizens interested in understanding and shaping the American metropolis."--BOOK JACKET. Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 8 Foreword 10 Acknowledgments 16 Introduction 22 1 Suburban Sprawl: Paved with Good Intentions 40 2 Critical Regionalism: An Architecture of Place 71 3 Typology: An Architecture of limits 113 4 New Urbanism: Versus Everyday Urbanism and Post Urbanism 152 5 Public Policy: What We Should Do A.S.A.P. 200 Notes 224 Bibliography 230 Index 236 A 236 B 236 C 236 D 237 E 237 F 237 G 237 H 238 I 238 J 238 K 238 L 238 M 238 N 239 O 239 P 239 R 239 S 239 T 240 U 240 V 240 W 240 Y 240 Z 240