Cities fit to live in and how we can make them happen : recent articles on the urban environment / Edited and with a foreword by Walter McQuade.

Author/creator McQuade, Walter
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Macmillan, [©1971]
Descriptionviii, 152 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 29 cm.
Subjects

SeriesUrban environment, no. 1
Urban environment ; no. 1. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Urban violence and contemporary defensive cities, by R. Gold.--The trial of LeRoi Jones, by L. Campbell.--"Welcome to Marina City" - The shape of the new style, by R. Blumhorst.--Narcotics: root of urban tension, by G. Miller.--Garbage, or can we ever get away from it all? By R. Starr.--Major changes in environmental form required by social and psychological demands, by C. Alexander.--Planning and using resurrection city, by J. Wiebenson.--Center of action, by R. Montgomery.--Thamesmead.--How New York's zoning was changed to induce the construction of legitimate theaters, by R. Weinstein.--Special districts: a departure from the concept of uniform controls, by A. Fonoroff.-- Advocacy and the urban poor, by M. Kaplan.--Absentee planning and the integrated society, by J. V. Cunningham.--Community involvement, pros and cons, by J. Finrow.--The Yorkville community and Gimbels.--The political collapse of a playground, by M. Spivack.--Urban poverty, ragpickers, and the "Ants' Villa" i n Tokyo, by K. Taira.
Local noteLittle-71802
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 76158069

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