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Urban Studies and Planning

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations

1995

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"Beautiful Downtown Burbank" : Changing Metropolitan Geography In The Modern West, Carl Abbott Jul 1995

"Beautiful Downtown Burbank" : Changing Metropolitan Geography In The Modern West, Carl Abbott

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations

Focuses on the Western United States' leadership in city planning since World War II. Concepts of three competing ideas about the emerging form of decentralization or suburbanization; 'Urban realms'; 'Linear cities'; 'Go-board metropolis'; Opinion of historians and architectural experts; Illustration of several models for understanding the morphology of Western cities.