Remaking the CityJohn Pipkin, Mark La Gory, Judith R. Blau This book pulls together a variety of perspectives on urban form and urban design. It contains invited contributions by well-known architects, economists, geographers, sociologists, and planners, fostering a much-needed dialogue between practitioners and theorists of urban planning. The contributions provide inclusive reviews of the state-of-the-art in various fields, as well as develop original and sometimes controversial new ideas. As a whole, they cut across some of the key conceptual lines of demarcation in urban research: The distinct concerns of architects, planners, social scientists and practitioners are probed; cognitive and semiotic perspectives on urban form are contrasted; and the merits of individualistic versus structural explanation are discussed. |
Contents
Introductory Remarks on Form Meaning and Practice | 1 |
Cognitive Significance of Form | 17 |
Architects and Their Symbols 1172 | 77 |
Urban Semiotics | 101 |
Social Significance of Form | 115 |
Residential Crowding and Social Behavior | 148 |
Human Behavior and the Built Environment | 162 |
The Social Consequences of Spatial Structure | 180 |
The Contribution of Urban Economics to City Planning | 203 |
Racial Differences in Housing Consumption and Filtering | 229 |
The Local Community as an Ecology of Games | 254 |
Land Speculation and Urban Morphology | 269 |
The Political Economy of Suburban Growth | 294 |
Suburban Case Studies | 310 |
ClassMonopoly Rent Finance Capital and the Urban | 334 |
Rational Planning in a Nonrational | 364 |
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