Better By Design?: Architecture, Urban Planning, and the Good City
About this ebook
In Better by Design? Paul Knox explores the intellectual roots of the design professions, showing how architects, planners, and other designers have traditionally interpreted their roles and implemented their ideas in cities across North America and the UK. Drawing on his long record of research and award-winning publications on the social production of the built environment, Knox offers a critical appraisal of their ultimate effectiveness in achieving the goal of creating and sustaining good cities.
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About the author
Paul L. Knox is University Distinguished Professor, Dean Emeritus of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech, where he also serves as the Founding Dean of the Honors College. Better by Design? is the culmination of a career of research and writing on urbanization and the design professions that includes such titles as Metroburbia: The Anatomy of Greater London (2017) Metroburbia USA (2008), Atlas of Cities (2014) and Cities and Design (2011).
