Civitas by design
Subtitle: building better communities, from the garden city to the new urbanism
By: Howard Gillette, Jr.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780812242478
Subjects: City planning -- United States -- History; Community development -- United States -- History; Urbanization -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Progressive reform through environmental intervention; title: The garden city in America; title: "The city": film as artifact; title: The evolution of neighborhood planning; title: The evolution of the planned shopping center in suburb and city; title: James Rouse and American city planning; title: The new urbanism: "ways of organizing things that matter"; title: Civitas in the design of low-income housing.