The Chosen City
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Author(s): N. Schoon
Publisher: Spon Press
ISBN: 0415258022
Format: softback
370pp
Price: £18.99
Review Date: 08 February 2002
Review: For years people have been leaving cities for the countryside. This book looks at what is wrong with cities and what could be done to improve and regenerate them. The author, with the backing of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, travelled the cities of Britain in order to get a feel for the neighbourhoods. He argues that the main priority should be to make neighbourhoods and cities places where people would choose to live. Urban education, crime prevention and transport systems, as well as town planning and architecture are in need of improvement. At present towns are being allowed to spread into the countryside. The book looks at the last 200 years of metropolitan growth and decay and the results of recent changes in urban policy.