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Gideon S. Golany - Ethics and Urban Design - 9780471122746 - V9780471122746
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Ethics and Urban Design

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Description for Ethics and Urban Design Hardcover. "The city," according to urban design scholar Gideon Golany, is "the largest and most complicated project ever produced by humankind. " In Ethics and Urban Design, he challenges design professionals to reexamine their basic assumptions about the urban environment and offers design strategies based on enduring human values. Num Pages: 272 pages, photographs, line drawings. BIC Classification: AMVD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 266 x 189 x 21. Weight in Grams: 678.
"The city," according to urban design scholar Gideon Golany, is"the largest and most complicated project ever produced byhumankind." In Ethics and Urban Design, he challenges designprofessionals to reexamine their basic assumptions about the urbanenvironment and offers design strategies based on enduring humanvalues.

In search of answers to the paradoxical problems of the moderncity, Golany takes the reader through the sweep of humansettlements from the dawn of civilization to the present. Hisauthoritative examination of the genesis of the city is illuminatedby instructive examples of early urban centers. Mesopotamia, theIndus River Valley, the Egyptian cities of the Nile, and ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780471122746
SKU
V9780471122746
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Gideon S. Golany
GIDEON S. GOLANY is Distinguished Professor of Urban Design in the Department of Architecture at Pennsylvania State University and has taught at many universities throughout the world. Among his many honors and awards, Dr. Golany has been named an Honorary Professor of the China Academy of Sciences and a Foreign Director of the China Research Society of Ancient Architecture. He ... Read more

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