Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning
- ISBN-10
- 0262021862
- ISBN-13
- 9780262021869
- Category
- City planning
- Pages
- 331
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1983-01-01
- Publisher
- MIT Press (MA)
- Author
- M. Christine Boyer
Description
Dreaming the Rational City is both a history of the city planning profession in the United States and a major polemical statement about the effort to plan and reform the American city.
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