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Author Fowler, Edmund P. (Edmund Prince), 1942-

Title Building cities that work / Edmund P. Fowler
Edition 1st paperback ed. 1993
Published Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 315 pages) : illustrations
Contents Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- 1 Postwar City Building from Above and Below -- The New Urban Environment -- The Areas of the Toronto Study -- PART ONE: THE LACK OF PHYSICAL DIVERSITY: ITS CONSEQUENCES -- 2 The Economic Costs of the New North American City -- The Costs of Municipal Services -- Housing -- Retail and Manufacturing -- Conclusions -- 3 The Social Consequences of the New North American City -- The Suburbs -- Likes and Dislikes -- Friendship Patterns -- Crime -- 4 Children -- Belonging to the Environment -- Socializing
Juvenile Delinquency5 Politics and the New Urban Environment -- Conventional Politics 115 -- Authentic Politics -- Local Government -- The Impact of the New Built Environment on Politics -- PART TWO: EXPLORING WHY WE BUILT THIS WAY: OPENINGS TO CHANGE -- 6 Why Did We Do It? Explanations for the Postwar Urban Environment -- Economic Explanations -- Political Explanations -- Culture -- Planners and Planning -- 7 Basic Assumptions -- Separation from Nature -- Economic Institutions -- Political Institutions -- 8 Our Cities, Our Selves
Appendix The Areas and Their Scores on Physical DiversityNotes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject City planning -- Canada
City planning -- United States
City planning -- Ontario -- Toronto
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
City planning
Stadtplanung
Canada
Ontario -- Toronto
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773562790
0773562796