|aWho plans the planning? : |barchitecture, politics, and mankind / |cLucius Burckhardt ; edited by Jesko Fezer and Martin Schmitz ; translation from German into English : Jill Denton.
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|aBasel : |bBirkhäuser, |cc2020.
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|a335 p. : |bill. ; |c19 cm.
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|aTranslation of : Wer plant die Planung? : Architektur, Politik und Mensch. Berlin : Martin Schmitz Verlag, 2004.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 325-330) and index.
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|aFrom the 1950s, Lucius Burckhardt (1925-2003) focused on planning, design, and construction in a democracy. His astute observations and critical analysis have had a fundamental effect on the design of our environment, on teaching in the architectural/planning professions, and on our understanding of what "city" means. His research, which - between mighty commercial interests and conflicting political aspirations focuses on the benefit for the entire population - is indispensable when and wherever buildings are planned, designed, built, and inhabited. With a new selection of texts, this book ploughs a furrow through Lucius Burckhardt's theory of planning.