Buy this book
First published in 1909, Raymond Unwin's Town Planning in Practice: An Introduction to the Art of Designing Cities and Suburbs is an extraordinary compendium of images and theories on urban design. As a member of the generation of planners following Camillo Sitte and preceding the emergence of the modern planners of the 1920s, Unwin considered planning a design-based discipline rather than a purely technical one.
He believed that artistic and practical criteria were mutually supportive and carried this out in his work by creating plans that represented a unity of art, science, and technology.
Unwin is perhaps the greatest figure of the Garden City movement, which has had a tremendous impact on planning in both Europe and the United States. Although Town Planning has become the bible of neo-traditionalist planners, this book is not a nostalgic view of past planning ideas; rather, it is a useful, forward-looking book that holds valuable lessons for today's planners.
Its insightful critical analyses of many towns throughout Europe and the United States are accompanied by photographs, plans, drawings, and six foldout maps. This reprint of Town Planning in Practice includes a new preface by Andres Duany and an introduction by Walter Creese.
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
Subjects
City planning, Methodology, HistoryShowing 8 featured editions. View all 8 editions?
Book Details
Edition Notes
Maps accompanied by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress.
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created September 12, 2008
- 2 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
December 15, 2009 | Edited by WorkBot | link works |
September 12, 2008 | Created by ImportBot | Imported from Oregon Libraries MARC record |