Urban Planning and the Pursuit of Happiness
European variations on a universal theme (18th-21st Centuries)
ed. by Arnold Bartetzky, Marc Schallenberg

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Editor(s)

Arnold Bartetzky, Marc Schallenberg

Publisher, year

Berlin : jovis Verlag, 2009

Scope

223 p., illustrated, 24 cm.

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Urban planning implies promises for a better life, the visions of planners and their patrons are related to the universal idea of a pursuit of happiness. This doesn't mean they always match the needs of the people concerned; the inhabitants' actual usages and appropriations of urban spaces may even undermine their original conceptions. This book assembles a dozen case studies from various European countries from the Enlightment to the present day.

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Location

Cabinet 17 - 3 City and Residents

Remarks

Incl. Bibliographical References