Model cities.
The term ‘model” is now central to our thinking about how we understand and design cities. We suggest a variety of ways in which we use ‘models’, linking these ideas to Abercrombie's exposition of Town and Country Planning which represented the state of the art fifty years ago. Here we focus on usin...
| Publicado en: | TPR: Town Planning Review Vol. 78; no. 2; pp. 125 - 152 |
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Liverpool University Press / Journals
2007
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