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Jonathan Barnett

Author of The Elusive City: Five Centuries of Design, Ambition and Miscalculation

13+ Works 253 Members

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Jonathan Barnett is an Emeritus Professor of Practice in City and Regional Planning, and former Director of the Urban Design Program, at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an architect and planner as well as an educator. He has authored numerous books and articles on the theory and practice of show more city design. show less

Works by Jonathan Barnett

The Elusive City: Five Centuries of Design, Ambition and Miscalculation (1986) 45 copies

The Fractured Metropolis: Improving The New City, Restoring The Old City, Reshaping The Region (1995) 42 copies

Redesigning Cities: Principles, Practice, Implementation (2003) 37 copies

The Architect as Developer (1976) — Author — 30 copies

Urban Design as Public Policy (1974) 25 copies

An Introduction to Urban Design (1982) 24 copies

Planning for a New Century: The Regional Agenda (2000) 11 copies

Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs (2015) 11 copies

Smart Growth in a Changing World (2007) 9 copies

City Design: Modernist, Traditional, Green and Systems Perspectives (2011) 8 copies

Perspecta 8: The Yale Architectural Journal (1963) — Editor — 5 copies

Designing the Megaregion: Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale (2020) 4 copies

Reinventing development regulations (2017) 2 copies

Associated Works

The Practice of Local Government Planning (1979) — Contributor, some editions — 54 copies

Harvard Design Magazine: The origins and evolution of "urban design" 1956-2006 (2006) — Contributor — 2 copies

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Works: 13
Also by: 2
Members: 253
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Rating: 3.1

ISBNs: 43

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