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Book Review

Big Plans: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design. By Kenneth Kolson. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xviii, 236 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8018-6679-0.)
In Big Plans, Kenneth Kolson offers a remarkably well written and elegantly illustrated set of reflections on cities and city planning. From a wide variety of topics, Kolson weaves a seamless argument. Above all, he writes of residential neighborhoods and central cities in the United States today. But his chapters deal seriously with James Packer's scholarly reconstruction of Trajan's Forum—and the Getty Museum's high-tech virtual representation; with interpretations of ancient mound builders in the Mississippi basin; with the Garden City movement and Dutch town planning; with Evry New Town near Paris; with the Brit-ish Library at St. Pancras, London, and the new French library in Paris; with the university town of St. Andrews, Scotland; with modern Rome and Renaissance Florence; and with SimCity, the interactive computer game intended to demonstrate the challenges facing an American mayor. . . .
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