Research Catalog

Title

The chosen city / Nicholas Schoon.

Author

Schoon, Nicholas.

Publication

London ; New York : Spon Press, 2001.

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Description

x, 370 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"Nicholas Schoon argues that the foremost priority for regeneration is to make neighborhoods and cities places where people with choices choose to live. The author surveys the last two centuries of metropolitan growth and decay, analyzes the successes and failures of recent changes in urban policy, and proposes a wide range of radical measures to make the renaissance a reality. Comprehensively researched, the book serves as a wake-up call for everyone interested and involved in urban regeneration."--Jacket.

Subject

• Cities and towns > Great Britain
• Metropolitan areas > Great Britain
• Inner cities > Great Britain
• Urban renewal > Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-366) and index.

Contents

1. The Abandoned City -- 2. Darkshire and Coketown -- the Approach to 1900 -- 3. Enter the State -- 1900 to 1951 -- 4. Overspill and High Rise -- 1951 to 1976 -- 5. Things Can Only Get Better -- 1976 to 2000 -- 6. Ten Opportunities -- 7. Pushes and Pulls -- 8. The Milton Keynes Effect -- 9. How to Mingle -- 10. Education, Education, Regeneration -- 11. The Frightened City -- 12. Mixed Uses and High Densities, or MUHD -- 13. The Ideal Home -- 14. Erosion of Cities or Attrition of Cars -- 15. Town and Country -- 16. New New Towns -- 17. Renaissance or Stillbirth?

ISBN

• 0415258014
• 0415258022 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2001020804

OCLC

46501904

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library