Cities of the Mind Images and Themes of the City in the Social Scien
Curious about the images of the city that have been evolving in the different social sciences, we did what academics often do in such a situa 1 tion: we set up a seminar on "Images of the City in the Social Sciences." From the start, we counted on the he
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ENVIRONMENT, DEVELOPMENT, AND
PUBLIC POLICY
A series of volumes under the general editorship of Lawrence Susskind, Massachusetts Institute of Technoloy, Cambridge, Massachusetts
CITIES AND DEVELOPMENT Series Editor: Lloyd Rodwin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts
CITIES AND CITY PLANNING Lloyd Rodwin
THINKING ABOUT DEVELOPMENT Lisa Peattie
CONSERVING AMERICA'S NEIGHBORHOODS Robert K. Yin
MAKING WORK
Self-Created Jobs in Participatory Organizations William Ronco and Lisa Peattie
CITIES Of THE MIND
Images and Themes of the City in the Social Sciences Lloyd Rodwin and Robert M. Hollister
Other subseries: ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND PLANNING
Series Editor: Lawrence Susskind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
PUBLIC POLICY AND SOCIAL SERVICES
Series Editor: Gary Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cities of the Mind Images and Themes of the City in the Social Sciences
Edited by Lloyd Rodwin Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts
and Robert M. Hollister Tufts University Medford, Massachusetts
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Cities of the mind. (Environment, development, and public policy. Cities and development) Bibliography: p. Includes index. l. Cities and towns- United States-Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Social sciences- United States -Addresses, essays, lectures. 3. Cities and towns- Addresses, essays, lectures. 4. Social sciences-Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Hollister, Robert M. II. Rodwin, Lloyd. III. Series. HT123.C4967 1984 307.7'6'0973 84-1991 ISBN 978-1-4757-9699-5 ISBN 978-1-4757-9697-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4757-9697-1
© 1984 Springer Science+ Business Media New York Originally published by Plenum Press, New York in 1984 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1984
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To Gyorgy Kepes, Kevin Lynch, and Gerald Holton, who sparked our interest in images and themes
Contributors Paolo Ceccarelli, Department of Social and Economic Analysis of the Territory, lstituto U niversitario di Architettura, Venice, Italy Michael H. Frisch, Department of History, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York Gerald E. Frug, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts Nathan Glazer, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Peter Hall, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Califi>rnia, Berkeley, California, and Department of Geography, University of Reading, Reading, England john R. Harris, African Studies Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts Michael A. Hindery, Department of American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Robert M. Holl
