The Chosen City

by Schoon,Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9780415258012
• ISBN10: 0415258014
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 11/9/2001
• Publisher: Taylor & Franci

Summary

In this broad, challenging and highly engaging book, Nicholas Schoon argues that the foremost priority for regeneration is to make neighborhoods and cities places where people with choices choose to live. The author surveys the last two centuries of metropolitan growth and decay, analyzes the successes and failures of recent changes in urban policy and proposes a wide range of radical measures to make the renaissance a reality. Comprehensively researched, the book serves as a wake-up call for everyone interested and involved in urban regeneration.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vi
Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	xi
The Abandoned City	1	(18)
Darkshire and Coketown-the Approach to 1900	19	(16)
Enter the State-1900 to 1951	35	(18)
Overspill and High Rise-1951 to 1976	53	(14)
Things Can Only Get Better-1976 to 2000	67	(30)
Ten Opportunities	97	(8)
Pushes and Pulls	105	(18)
The Milton Keynes Effect	123	(30)
How to Mingle	153	(18)
Education, Education, Regeneration	171	(24)
The Frightened City	195	(22)
Mixed Uses and Higher Densities, or MUHD	217	(24)
The Ideal Home	241	(28)
Erosion of Cities or Attrition of Cars	269	(26)
Town and Country	295	(18)
New New Towns	313	(16)
Renaissance or Stillbirth?	329	(24)
Notes	353	(14)
Index	367