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Jun 09, 20161aa rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
A book about an interesting topic, but somehow he was able to make it fall rather flat. The 'city beautiful', the 'garden city', the 'radiant city', Ms. Jacons' ideas, and to a lesser extent 'broadacre city' are each given a brief description, and the controversies between them are cursorily recounted. There is no mention at all of Soleri (really the man's ideas need a revival). The book just articulates some of the vagueness and tensions among the desiderata, but leaves it just a little less vague.