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050 00 $aHT384.N5$bC57 1997
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245 00 $aCities in our future :$bgrowth and form, environmental health and social equity /$cedited by Robert Geddes.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bIsland Press,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $axxi, 199 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"Based on the Conference on Cities in North America held in New York in 1996"--Pref.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tForeword /$rWally N'Dow --$tPreface /$rRobert Geddes --$tIntroduction /$rEllen Posner --$tJustice and the City /$rAlan Ryan --$tFrom the Environmentally Challenged City to the Ecological City /$rJohn Spengler and Tim Ford --$tLos Angeles: The First American City /$rRichard Weinstein --$tToronto: An Urban Alternative /$rGardner Church, Kenneth Greenberg and Marilou McPhedran --$tCity Design and the Development of New York City /$rJonathan Barnett --$tNew York: A Region at Risk /$rRobert D. Yaro and Thomas K. Wright --$tCascadia: An Emerging Regional Model /$rAlan Artibise, Anne Vernez Moudon and Ethan Seltzer --$tMexico City: The City of Palaces /$rXavier Cortes Rocha and Fernando Greene --$tAfterword /$rAliye Pekin Celik.
520 $aUrban 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.
520 8 $aIn 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 problems have been handled, and strategies for avoiding or managing similar problems in the future.
520 8 $aThey consider historical and contemporary transformations of the cities as well as issues of environment, equity, sustainable development, governance, and civic design.
650 0 $aCities and towns$zNorth America$xGrowth$vCongresses.
650 0 $aCities and towns$zNorth America$xCase studies$vCongresses.
650 0 $aUrbanization$zNorth America$vCongresses.
650 0 $aCity planning$zNorth America$vCongresses.
700 1 $aGeddes, Robert.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81147875
711 2 $aConference on Cities in North America$d(1996 :$cNew York, N.Y.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96069489
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