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Planning a Pluralist City: Conflicting Realities in Ciudad Guayana

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When city planners and designers are given the ideal assignment--to build a new city in the wilderness, unencumbered by an existing urban matrix and, at the same time, the site is located in the midst of a resource-rich region that attracts a rapid influx of people who proceed to build for them selves a burgeoning boomtown of in digenous settlements, planned without planners-then conflicts are almost inevitable. The present book, based on the experience of Ciudad Guayana in Vene zuela, demonstrates that the deeper conflicts between planners and people are not only the result of clashes of value or intent but are as much reflec tions of basic differences in perception. The planner sees his model of the projected city as a totality, from above; the inhabitant sees the present reality, from street level. The planner's map is a multicolored physical reality; the in-habitant constructs and constantly revises his mental map as experience interacts with memory. The MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies has been involved with the planning of Ciudad Guayana from the time that it was a gleam in the planners' eyes (The MIT Press has pub lished several reports by participants in the project), and Donald Appleyard spent a number of summers at the site.. The Joint Center has also sponsored pathfinding studies of urban percep tion and environmental cognition, no tably Kevin Lynch's The Image of the City and Appleyard's The View from the Road (written with Lynch and John R. Myer). The book at hand is the product of the fruitful union of these two interests, a convergence of a subject and a methodology that illuminates both.

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Ketersediaan

0000007898

309.2 APP p

Library Pusperkim

Tersedia

Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

Publication for the Joint Center for Urban Studies

No. Panggil

309.2 APP p

Penerbit

Cambridge : The MIT Press., 1976

Deskripsi Fisik

312 hal.; ilus.; 18,3 x 26,1 cm.; glosarium.; inde

Bahasa

Indonesia

ISBN/ISSN

0-262-01044-5

Klasifikasi

309.2

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

Ed. 1, Cet. 1

Subjek

Cities

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