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MAKESHIFT METROPOLIS: IDEAS ABOUT CITIES Witold Rybczynski (New York: Scribner, 2010), 256 pages.
Witold Rybczynski, professor of urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, presents the history of city planning in the United States in his 2010 book, Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas about Cities. Rybczynski 's treatment of urban history is scrupulous, offering literal and figurative pictures of how urban planning proliferated, dedicating a significant portion of the book to three schools of thought: Charles Mulford Robinson's City Beautiful, Ebenezer Howard's Garden...