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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457423303321

Autore

Jacobs Allan B.

Titolo

The good city : reflections and imaginations / / Allan B. Jacobs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-43527-6

9786613435279

1-136-86015-0

0-203-83596-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

307.1/216

Soggetti

City planning

City and town life

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Experiencing cities : an introduction -- pt. 2. Learning from Calcutta -- pt. 3. Learning in Italy -- pt. 4. City people : fragments -- pt. 5. Breaking and making community -- pt. 6. World-class cities -- pt. 7. City certainties -- pt. 8. San Francisco -- pt. 9. The good city.

Sommario/riassunto

Cities, Allan B. Jacobs contends, ought to be magnificent, beautiful places to live. They should be places where people can be fulfilled, where they can be what they can be, where there is freedom, love, ideas, excitement, quiet and joy. Cities ought to be the ultimate manifestation of society's collective achievements.Allan B. Jacobs is one of the world's best known planners and urban design practitioners, with a long and distinguished international career. Drawing on his professional experience of almost sixty years, Jacobs guides the reader through the lessons he's learnt a