A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Green city : people, nature, and urban places
Introduction -- The first cities: Babylon and Princess Amytis's garden -- Provins: the legacy of walled cities -- The City of London, Bloomsbury and Richmond: the transformation of the city on the Thames -- Hamilton, Ontario: city beautiful and steeltown -- Chicago: balloons and white flight -- Irvine, California: the ultimate planned suburb -- Singapore: the realm of the philosopher king -- Tanga, Tanzania: colonial town, World Heritage future? -- Kochi, India: the green gem on the Arabian Sea -- Shanghai: creative destruction -- São Paulo: no limits to growth -- Babylon revisited- and what that means
Green city : people, nature, and urban places
Introduction -- The first cities: Babylon and Princess Amytis's garden -- Provins: the legacy of walled cities -- The City of London, Bloomsbury and Richmond: the transformation of the city on the Thames -- Hamilton, Ontario: city beautiful and steeltown -- Chicago: balloons and white flight -- Irvine, California: the ultimate planned suburb -- Singapore: the realm of the philosopher king -- Tanga, Tanzania: colonial town, World Heritage future? -- Kochi, India: the green gem on the Arabian Sea -- Shanghai: creative destruction -- São Paulo: no limits to growth -- Babylon revisited- and what that means
Green city : people, nature, and urban places
Soderstrom, Mary (author)
2006
244 S.
22 cm
ill., maps, ports
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-239)
Book
English
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