Building Cities that Work

Building Cities that Work
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 0773511830
ISBN-13 : 9780773511835
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Book Synopsis Building Cities that Work by : Edmund P. Fowler

Download or read book Building Cities that Work written by Edmund P. Fowler and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1945, North Americans have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on urban development, literally transforming the landscape of the continent. This development has been disastrous, Edmund Fowler maintains, because it is inordinately expensive, destructive of the environment, and disruptive of healthy social life and authentic politics. Revealing the connections between our basic cultural beliefs and why we build the way we do, he stresses that to build cities that work we must become aware of how our personal choices contribute to the form of the built environment.


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