Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning
Posted by Urban Planning Theory at 2:58 PMThis volume is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the 20th century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. It reviews the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the 20th century.
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but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations - Page 378
For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword - Page 1
Forget six counties overhung with smoke, Forget the snorting steam and piston stroke, Forget the spreading of the hideous town; Think rather of the pack-horse on the down, And dream of London, small and white and clean, The clear Thames bordered by its gardens green. William Morris The - Page 87
will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Daniel - Page 188
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once - Page 188
does a firm perswasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied: "All Poets believe that it does, & in ages of imagination this firm perswasion removed mountains; but many are not capable of a firm perswasion of any thing." William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - Page 1
deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world. John Winthrop A Model of Christian Charity (1630) - Page 1
In essence, the Negro community has been forced into a matriarchal structure which, because it is so out of line with the rest of American society, seriously retards the progress of the group as a whole, and imposes a crushing burden on the Negro male and, in consequence, on a great many Negro women as well. - Page 451
made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into - Page 142
Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist": - Page 2
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+ By Peter Hall
+ Published 2002
+ Blackwell Publishing
+ ISBN 0631232524