Big Plans
Subtitle: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design (Center Books on Contemporary Landscape Design)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: September 29, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780801877308
Subjects: Urban & municipal planning; Public Policy - General; Sociology; Architecture; Political Science; Sociology - Urban; Architecture / Landscape; Planning; Landscape
First sentence: IN 1972, JAMES E. PACKER OF THE classics department at Northwestern University, fresh off an exhaustive study of Ostia, the port of Rome, set out to research the Forum of Trajan, a formal grouping of public buildings designed for the emperor by Apollodorus of Damascus and executed during the first several decades of the second century A.D.