280 Pages
41 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
260 Pages
41 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
260 Pages
41 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explains why the earliest cities had grid-form street systems, what conditions led to their being overwhelmingly preferred for 5000 years throughout the world, why the Founding Fathers wanted gridform cities and how they affect economic transactions. Real property has been instrumental in forming urban settlements for 5000 years, but virtually all urban form commentary, theory and... Read more
1. Stagnation 2. Intentions and Disconnections 3. The Road to Congestion 4. Networks, Complexity, Models and Measures 5. Quantifying Vehicle and Pedestrian Access 6. Space and Property: Public and Private 7. Historic and Prehistoric Origins of American Urban Space 8. History of a Regime Shift: Two Centuries of American Moral Design 9. Structures, Powers, Mechanisms and Tendencies
Biography
M. Gordon Brown is Principal of Space Analytics in Wauconda (Chicago) where he consults and does expert witness work on the built environment. He was a professor of architecture at three major American universities and head of the Real Estate Program at Eindhoven University of Technology.
