Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Book

Author:

Marshall, Alex, 1959-

Title:

How cities work : suburbs, sprawl, and the roads not taken / Alex Marshall.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher, Date:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2000.

Description:

xxiii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Summary:

The author explores "the decentralized spread of California's Silicon Valley, the crowded streets of New York City's Jackson Heights neighborhood, the controlled growth of Portland, Oregon, and the stage-set facades of Disney's planned community, Celebration, Florida," and argues that the real forces of shaping cities--transportation systems, industry and business, and political decision making--have been ignored.--Cover.

Series:

Constructs series

Constructs series.

Subjects:

City planning.

Cities and towns -- Growth.

Suburbs.

Social psychology.

Social participation.

Other Title:

Suburbs, sprawl, and the roads not taken

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index.

Also issued online.

Contents:

A tale of two towns : Kissimmee versus Celebration and the new urbanism -- The end of place -- The deconstructed city : the silicon valley -- Trading places : the city and the suburb -- Jackson Heights : an anachronism finds its way -- The master hand : the role of government in building cities -- Portland and Oregon : taming the forces that create the modern metropolitan area -- No place called home : community at the millennium -- Getting there : building healthy cities.

Web Site:

Table of contents

Publisher description

LCCN:

00026691

ISBN:

0292752393

9780292752399

0292752407

9780292752405

Other Number:

43555229

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

97098

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

307.76 Marshall