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The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the United States

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Great Text, Terrible Plates

By Diego Marzipan - March 28, 2013

The quality of the written content of this book is superb. The chapters are well organized and written simply in a manner where a great deal of information is conveyed. The breadth of what is covered is also excellent which is why this book is required reading at many Urban Design and Planning schools.

The number of maps in this book is truly astounding. However the print quality is so poor that most of them are hopeless obscured sometimes to the point of being rendered unreadable and are thus useless for learning. The entire book is printed on very poor quality "pulp-paperback" type paper that you would find in popular fiction paperbacks, hardly appropriate for a book with 300+ illustrations, maps and figures. The large format pages do very little to ameliorate this problem.

The printing does not do justice to this book. As an avid map collector, I am sure Reps would not be pleased with the quality of the map reproduction. I can't recommend purchasing... read more

The Making of Urban America. A History of Planning in the United States

By Fred D. Fishback, AIA Emeritus. - February 6, 2013

Great historical depth for a better understanding, not only by the general public but also by those professionals who are urban planners and/or architects, hopefully working in the "best interest" of their general-public clients, as opposed to the best interest of public officials.

The epic architectural!

By Hiram Gomez Pardo - January 26, 2007

The architectural constructions and superb designs are a constant challenge for every raising generation. If Gaudi is to Barcelona an always reminded icon, Le Cotrbusier occupies a special place for the French citizens, Frank Lloyd Wright joins this special pantheon of creative minds who faced with audacious bravery the task to build ambiances destined not only to embellish the urban environment but confer it of refined personality and impress its own feature for the generations to come.

Among countless texts that have illustrated the astonishing and majestic development of United States, no other book has immersed with such profundity in what concerns the process to link the early settlements to modern times. Written, depicted and supported lavishly, you will be engaged from the first page till the end. His reading is not only absorbing but admirably rich in details that justify plainly your inversion.

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