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Author:   Emily Talen
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.610kg
ISBN:  

9780415701334

ISBN 10:   0415701333
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   12 July 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction Defining American Urbanism 2. Framework – Four Urbanist Cultures 3. Principles – Urbanism vs. Anti-Urbanism 4. Incrementalism – Beauty, Redemption, Conservation and Complexity 5. Urban Plan-Making – the City Beautiful and the City Efficient 6. Planned Communities 7. Regionalism 8. Successes and Failures 9. Conclusion – the Survival of New Urbanism

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The new in New Urbanism is sometimes misunderstood. Professor Talen's carefully researched, thought provoking survey squarely locates the antecedents of New Urbanism within four major traditions of American urbanism. It is the first compelling placing of New Urbanism into a historic framework. This is a must read for anyone interested in contributing wisely to American urbanization. It is full of insight about how to improve our cities, re-making them anew while relying on useful precedent and, more importantly, cognizant of time-honored, persisting cultural motivations. <br>-Alex Krieger, Professor of Urban Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design <br> Anyone seeking to understand the tragic failures of urban place-making in America will be illuminated by Emily Talen's well-organized treatise. She brings a rich, coherent historical overview to a subject often adrift in the horse lattitudes of statistical analysis. <br>-James Howard Kunstler <br> The present cultural climate may feel inhospitable for American urbanism but this book shows how deep the movement's roots run in the nationhood. <br>-Michael Hebbert, University of Manchester <br> In this new work, Prof. Talen provides a comprehensive and deeply thoughtful enquiry into the characteristics of Randall urbanism, and the promise that this concept holds for the nation's future, if it is properly understood and implemented. This serious work will be much valued by students of urban planning, and could help to resolve the conflict of cultures which she so adeptly identifies. I found the chapter on Planned Communites to be particularly illuminating. <br>-Randall Arendt <br>

<p> This is a must read for anyone interested in contributing wisely to American urbanization. - Alex Krieger, Professor of Urban Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design<p> She brings a rich, coherent historical overview to a subject often adrift in the horse lattitudes of statistical analysis. - James Howard Kunstler

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Associate Professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.

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