The good city : reflections and imaginations / / Allan B. Jacobs
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| Autore: |
Jacobs Allan B.
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| Titolo: |
The good city : reflections and imaginations / / Allan B. Jacobs
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| Pubblicazione: | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (193 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 307.1/216 |
| Soggetto topico: | City planning |
| City and town life | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The good city |
| ISBN: | 1-283-43527-6 |
| 9786613435279 | |
| 1-136-86015-0 | |
| 0-203-83596-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820170103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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