Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCollects some of the outstanding writings on the city by Gottmann since 1961, many of them out of print in English . . . The book is a minor masterpiece, a sympathetic but emphatic rebuttal of the presumptions of those who would plan our lives.
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New ScientistTable of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. The Opening of the Oyster Shell
Part I. Urban Origins
Chapter 1. Orbits: The Ancient Mediterranean Tradition of Urban Networks
Part II. Urban Centrality
Chapter 2. Urban Centrality and the Interweaving of Quaternary Activities
Chapter 3. Capital Cities
Chapter 4. The Study of Former Capitals
Part III. City and Metropolis
Chapter 5. Economics, Esthetics, and Ethics in Modern Urbanization
Chapter 6. The Growing City as a Social and Political Process
Part IV. Megalopolis
Chapter 7. How Large Can Cities Grow?
Chapter 8. Megalopolitan Systems around the World
Chapter 9. Planning and Metamorphosis in Japan
Part V. The Transactional City
Chapter 10. Office Work and the Evolution of Cities
Chapter 11. Urban Settlements and Telecommunications
Chapter 12. The Recent Evolution of Oxford
Part VI. Living in the Modern Metropolis
Chapter 13. The Ethics of Living at High Densities
Chapter 14. Urbanization and Employment: Toward a General Theory
Chapter 15. The Metamorphosis of the Modern Metropolis
Part VII. Implications
Chapter 16. Transatlantic Orbits: The Interplay in the Evolution of Cities
Urban Publications by Jean Gottmann
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