Better by Design? Architecture, Urban Planning, and the Good City

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dc.contributor.authorKnox, Paul L.en
dc.contributor.departmentSchool of Architecture and Designen
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-27T19:48:20Zen
dc.date.available2021-01-27T19:48:20Zen
dc.date.issued2020-10-09en
dc.description.abstractThe design professions—architecture, city planning, landscape architecture, and urban design—share a great deal in terms of intellectual antecedents, professional ideals, and praxis. In particular, they share a commitment to creating better cities—whether at the scale of buildings, neighborhoods, or city-regions. But who decides what constitutes a “good” city, and how should such an ideal be implemented? In Better by Design? Paul Knox explores the intellectual roots of the design professions, showing how architects, planners, and other designers have traditionally interpreted their roles and implemented their ideas in cities across North America and the UK. Drawing on his long record of research and award-winning publications on the social production of the built environment, Knox offers a critical appraisal of their ultimate effectiveness in achieving the goal of creating and sustaining good cities.en
dc.description.notesContains illustrations, bibliographical references, and index.en
dc.format.extent311 pagesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationKnox, Paul L. Better by Design?: Architecture, Urban Planning, and the Good City. Blacksburg: Virginia Tech Publishing, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/better-by-designen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.21061/better-by-designen
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-949373-32-5en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/102107en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Tech Publishingen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.holderPaul L. Knoxen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectCity planningen
dc.subjectCitiesen
dc.subjectDesignen
dc.subjectUrban planningen
dc.subjectArchitectureen
dc.subjectArchitecture and societyen
dc.subject.lccNA9000.K74 2020en
dc.titleBetter by Design? Architecture, Urban Planning, and the Good Cityen
dc.typeBooken
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