Scott Larson

Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind: Contemporary Planning in New York City

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

¿Scott Larson is an independent scholar who has taught geography and urban studies at Vassar College, Queens College, and Hunter College.

Produktdetails

• Urban Life, Landscape and Poli
• Verlag: Temple University Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781439909690
• ISBN-10: 1439909695
• Artikelnr.: 36761809

Autorenporträt

 Scott Larson is an independent scholar who has taught geography and urban studies at Vassar College, Queens College, and Hunter College.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1   Jacobs versus Moses: A Fight for the City’s Soul
2   The “Patron Saint” and the “Git’r Done Man”
3   The Bloomberg Practice
4   Calls for a New Moses
5   Planning and the Narrative of Threat
6   The Armature for Development
7   Ideas That Converge
8   Ideas That Travel
9   Design as Civic Virtue
10  Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind
Notes
References
Index