The Fractured Metropolis: Improving The New City, Restoring The Old City, Reshaping The Region

by Jonathan Barnett

Overview

This book provides a thorough analysis of cities and the entire metropolitan region, considering how both are intrinsically linked and influence one other, targeted at architects, students, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, and city and regional officials.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367320324
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/07/2019
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jonathan Barnett, an urban designer and architect who has worked for cities throughout the United States, teaches architecture and urban design at City College.

Table of Contents

Also by Jonathan Barnett — Introduction: The Fractured Metropolis — Improving the New City — Accidental Cities or New Urban Centers — Suburban Sprawl — Creating Communities — Restoring the Old City — How the Metropolis Split Apart — The Entrepreneurial Center — Bypassed Areas: The New Urban Frontier — Restoring Communities — Reshaping the Metropolitan Region — The Changing Philosophy of Planning and Design — The Elements of City Design — A National Agenda for Action — Suggestions for Additional Reading — Illustration Credits