The Fractured Metropolis: Improving The New City, Restoring The Old City, Reshaping The Region
&quot;The accomplished urban designer Jonathan Barnett devotes  his latest book to exploring ways of ameliorating the split between the  `old city,' which used to be the center of things, and the `new city'  on the metropolitan periphery. Barnett discusses an impressively broad  variety of recent plans and designs for controlling sprawl, improving  urban centers and edge cities, and fitting new buildings in with old.  One of the best available overviews of how urban and metropolitan  design issues are currently being dealt with.&quot; -Progressive  Architecture&quot;`Because Jonathan Barnett is a gifted  practitioner, an experienced and knowing urban designer, as well as  distinguished teacher and author his books on urban design and history,  theory and practice are extraordinarily useful for both lay persons and  professional readers.&quot;--Journal of the American  Planning AssociationTargeted at architects, students, urban  designers and planners, landscape architects, and city and regional  officials, The Fractured Metropolisprovides a thorough analysis  of not only cities but also the entire metropolitan region, considering  how both are intrinsically linked and influence one other.Jonathan  Barnett, an urban designer and architect who has worked for cities  throughout the United States, teaches architecture and urban design at  City College.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.