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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 307.120904
EAN: 9780631232520
Edition: 3
ISBN: 0631232524
Label: Wiley-Blackwell
Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: July 09, 2002
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Studio: Wiley-Blackwell

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it.

• A critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it.
  
• Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject.
  
• Comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective.
  
• Reviews the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.

Rating: - Nice book.
You should read this book with the book "Twentieth Century Architecture" and it will give you more clear impression.

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Rating: - Essential Planning History
A reference classic to approach with a critical eye the history of urban planning. Probably what Peter Hall is most recognized for...

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Rating: - Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century
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Rating: - Good read and study of planning history!
My university is using this book as a text as part of our study of Planning History. It is a very good read and is unlike a textbook. Outlines planning history from 1880 to 1980.

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