The Regional City
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: January 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781559637848
Subjects: Urban & municipal planning; Urban communities; United States; Public Policy - Regional Planning; Open spaces; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology - Urban; Sociology; USA; Regional planning; Planning; Urban & Regional; Business & Economics / Urban & Regional; Metropolitan areas; Land use
First sentence: Only a century ago, the archetypal American community was a small city-often a factory town or a farm market town-so self-contained that its residents rarely had to leave its boundaries to obtain their daily needs.