The Regional City
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: January 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781559637831
Subjects: Urban & municipal planning; Urban communities; Sociology - Urban; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.; Urban Planning; Use Of Urban Lands; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; USA; Public Policy - Regional Planning; Planning; Business & Economics / Urban & Regional; Metropolitan areas; United States; Land use; Open spaces; Regional planning
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.