Howard Gillette Jr : 2 books
Civitas by Design
Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Since the end of the nineteenth century, city planners have aspired not only to improve the physical living conditions of urban residents but also to strengthen civic ties through better design of built environments. From Ebenezer Howard and his vision for garden cities to today's New Urbanists, these...
Class Divide
Yale '64 and the Conflicted Legacy of the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Members of the Yale College class of 1964—the first class to matriculate in the 1960s—were poised to take up the positions of leadership that typically followed an Ivy League education. Their mission gained special urgency from the inspiration of John F. Kennedy’s presidency and the civil rights...