The art of classic planning : building beautiful and enduring communities /
Nearly everything we treasure in the world's most beautiful cities was built over a century ago. Cities draw visitors because of their exquisite architecture, walkable neighborhoods, and human scale. Yet a great deal of the knowledge and practice behind successful city planning has been abandon...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: Frederick Law Olmstead and the sense of place
- Introduction : Creating a legacy of beauty
- How did we get here?
- The romantic modernist planning that gutted twentieth-century cities
- Modernist critique of modernist planning
- What now?
- Classic planning fundamentals
- Classic planning was always there
- Learning from what we have
- Urban form and your experience
- Classic planning applied
- Classic planning knowledge base
- Classic planning tools
- Designing a city
- Building a city
- A plan is a legacy, not a solution.
