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The Humanities in city planning : culture, uncertainty, and visuality / Martin H. Krieger.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Routledge, 2025Copyright date: ©2025Description: xiii, 164 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Humanities in city planningDDC classification:
  • 307.121601 KMH 23
LOC classification:
  • HT166 .K744 2025
Online resources: Summary: "Planning today is dominated by social science, but Kreiger takes a different approach, thinking of city planning in terms of Culture, Uncertainty, and Visuality. The chapters explore planners and their role as protagonist in the humanities of literature and history; the inevitability of uncertainty in planning and how to face it; and how to attend to the physical, visual, and aural environment of the city. Through a series of essays, Krieger shows that cities are cultural and meaningful, that they are contingent and so filled with opportunity, and that they are concrete, particular, and encountered"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Planning today is dominated by social science, but Kreiger takes a different approach, thinking of city planning in terms of Culture, Uncertainty, and Visuality. The chapters explore planners and their role as protagonist in the humanities of literature and history; the inevitability of uncertainty in planning and how to face it; and how to attend to the physical, visual, and aural environment of the city. Through a series of essays, Krieger shows that cities are cultural and meaningful, that they are contingent and so filled with opportunity, and that they are concrete, particular, and encountered"-- Provided by publisher.

Martin H. Krieger was professor, emeritus, at the Sol Price School of Public Policy of the University of Southern California. Hetaught at Berkeley, Minnesota, MIT, and Michigan, and was a fellow at the National Humanities Center and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He was a fellow of the American Physical Society. Martin Krieger passed away in 2024.

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