Man and the modern city

Man and the modern city

, périphéries, sociologie urbaine, société urbaine, éducation, urbanité, mutation urbaine, Geen Elizabeth, Lowe Jenne R., Walker Kenneth, modernisation

Extract from the preface by Otto F. Kraushaar:   The essays which make up this colume represent the thoughtful efforts of a number of distinguished specialists to examine afresh the implications of urbanism for modern man. They were presented during the academic year 1959-1960 as the principal event among those held in celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of Goucher College...   Five questions were carefully selected and structured to show the interrelationships of what the College considered the basic forces and questions influencing urbanism in America today, with the aim of developing a relevant new way of thinking about and acting on the development of the city. These five questions - The city today : Protector or Destroyer?; The suburbs : Paradise regained?; The coming urban technology : Master or servant?; The emerging American city : What are the economic, social and political choices?; The humane city : Can we plan for it? - became the framework within which the essays in this volume were presented and discussed.   Contents :   Preface - Otto F. Krauschaar Introduction The limitations of utilitarianism as a basis for determining urban joy - John Ely Burchard The city image - Edmund N. Bacon The promise of the city - Lawrence K. Frank The anti-city - William H. Whyte Living with the coming urban technology - Richard L. Meier The challenge of the city to the liberal arts college - Richard C. Lee Continuing education for urbanism - Eugene I. Johnson The American suburb : Boy's town in a man's world? - Robert C. Wood Suburbia reconsidered : Diversity and the creative life - Dorothy Lee   The late Elizabeth Geen was Dean and Professor of English at Goucher College The late Jeanne R. Lowe was a journalist and writer on urban affairs and a senior fellow and lecturer at the Urban Center of New York University. Kenneth Walker is Professor Emeritus of History at Goucher College.    

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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