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A World on the Wane
C. Levi-Strauss
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Description for A World on the Wane
Hardcover. This historical study looks at how reformers have used urban planning and architecture to improve the health of urban residents of the United States. Num Pages: 254 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMVD; MBN; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
This historical study looks at how reformers have used urban planning and architecture to improve the health of urban residents of the United States. It begins in the nineteenth century, when problems in rapidly urbanizing cities threatened to overwhelm cities, and then traces the development and impact of reform movements up through the First World War, including discussions of model tenements, the 'city beautiful' movement, tenement laws, and zoning and building codes. Midcentury design movements, such as new efforts to plan suburbs and Modernism, along with outlines of the impacts of public housing, highway building, and urban renewal, are the ... Read more
This historical study looks at how reformers have used urban planning and architecture to improve the health of urban residents of the United States. It begins in the nineteenth century, when problems in rapidly urbanizing cities threatened to overwhelm cities, and then traces the development and impact of reform movements up through the First World War, including discussions of model tenements, the 'city beautiful' movement, tenement laws, and zoning and building codes. Midcentury design movements, such as new efforts to plan suburbs and Modernism, along with outlines of the impacts of public housing, highway building, and urban renewal, are the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1961
Publisher
Criterion Books New York
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137002433
SKU
V9781137002433
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About C. Levi-Strauss
Russell Lopez teaches Urban Environmental Health in the Boston University School of Public Health.
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