About this title: Urban and regional planners, architects, urban designers, and other experts from across North America examined the impact of a city's growth and form on the ability of its citizens to achieve and maintain social equity and environmental health. In Cities in Our Future, case studies of five North American metropolitan areas - New York, Toronto, Cascadia (Vancouver, Seattle, Portland), Mexico City, and Los Angeles - are presented, with in-depth analyses of their physical terrain, design, planning, and development. Contributors discuss problems that the cities have experienced, how those ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Island Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9781559634960ISBN:1559634960
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Description: Satisfaction Guaranteed. Shipped quickly. 1997. Hardcover. 1 Ed. Used, very good. Very good overall with light to moderate wear. Includes dust jacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Island Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9781559634960ISBN:1559634960
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1559634960. 0.86 x 9.23 x 6.25 Inches; 220 pages; By the year 2000, half of humanity will live in urban areas. The problems of large-scale urbanization are profound, and coping with growth in the world's cities will be the most pressing challenge of the 21st century. In June 1996, the third in a series of United Nations sponsored conferences on global concerns was held: the Conference on Human Settlements, Habitat II. In preparation for that meeting, Robert Geddes, one ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Island Press
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9781559634960ISBN:1559634960
Description: New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 220 p. Audience: General/trade. Hardcover in dust jacket, Fine/Fine Condition (Brand new book! ), 199 pages (L2). read more
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