Wow! eBookThe City Reader Fifth Edition /5th Edition
By:LeGates, Richard T.(ed.) ;Stout, Frederic(ed.)
Published By:Taylor & Francis
Published Date:11 January 2011
TheFifth Edition of the highly successfulThe City Readerjuxtaposes the best classic and contemporary writings on the city. It contains fifty-seven selections includingseventeen new selections Author:Elijah Anderson, Robert Bruegmann, Michael Dear, Jan Gehl, Harvey Molotch, Clarence Perry, Daphne Spain, Nigel Taylor, Samuel Bass Waer, and others –five of which have been newly written exclusively forThe City Reader. Classic writings from Ebenezer Howard, Eest W. Burgess, LeCorbusier, Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and Louis Wirth, meet the best contemporary writings of Sir Peter Hall, Manuel Castells, David Harvey, Kenneth Jackson and others.
The City Reader Fifth Editionhas been extensively updated and expanded to reflect the latest thinking in each of the disciplinary areas included and in topical areas such as sustainable urban development, climate change, globalization, and the impact of technology on cities. The plate sections have been extensively revised and expanded and a new plate section on global cities has been added.
The anthology features general and section introductions and introductions to the selected articles. New to thefifth edition is a bibliography of 100 top books about cities.
