EAN: 9783319886626

SHAPING AMERICAN DEMOCRACY - SCOTT M ROULIER KA...

This book argues that the design of built spaces influences civic attitudes  including
prospects for social equality and integration  in America. Key American architects and
planners-including Frederick Law Olmsted  Frank Lloyd Wright  Robert Moses  and the New
Urbanists-not only articulated unique visions of democracy in their extensive writings  but
also instantiated those ideas in physical form. Using criteria such as the formation of social
capital  support for human capabilities  and environmental sustainability  the book argues that
the designs most closely associated with a communally-inflected version of democracy  such as
Olmsted's public parks or various New Urbanist projects  create conditions more favorable to
human flourishing and more consistent with a democratic society than those that are
individualistic in their orientation  such as urban modernism or most suburban forms.

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