Big Plans
The Allure and Folly of Urban Design (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14529204 |
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| Authors | Sharon Irish (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 212-214 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2003.0022 |
| OpenAlex | W2014473745 |
| Language | EN |
The two touchstones for Kenneth Kolson in Big Plans are Lewis Mumford's The City in History and Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities, both first published in 1961. Kolson takes his own book's title from a quote attributed to Daniel H. Burnham (1846-1912), the Chicago-based [End Page 212] architect whose large-scale planning and monumental civic buildings were anathema to both Mumford and Jacobs: "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. . . ." Kolson asserts that Jacobs and Mumford still provide urgently needed wisdom for those of us who care about cities, because their writing emphasizes "lived experience" (p. 3). He then posits as his central theme "the way that human nature first spawns and then thwarts the planning instinct" (p. 6), how big plans "stir men's blood" but inevitably disappoint
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Civil engineering · Instinct · Landscape architect · Landscape architecture · MAGIC (telescope) · Sociology · Theme (computing) · Computer Science · Engineering · History · Urban Planning and Landscape Design
| Highly cited | No |
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