Big Plans
Subtitle: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design (Center Books on Contemporary Landscape Design)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: January 4, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780801866791
Subjects: City & town planning - architectural aspects; Urban & municipal planning; Sociology; Urban Architecture; Urban Planning; Political Science; Urban renewal; Architecture; Sociology - Urban; Architecture / Landscape; City planning; General; Public Policy - Regional Planning; Cities and towns
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,1 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.