Communitas: Means of Livelihood & Ways of Life

Communitas is a guide to the planning of cities that begins with first principles. If our cities were to help us live the various kinds of life we might find desirable, what would they be like? The authors, one a novelist, playwright and critic, the other a professor and architect, analyze in word and picture the plans of the past and what alternatives are available for the future. When the first edition of this book appeared in 1947, it was greeted as one of the most fruitful and imaginative books on the building of cities that has ever been written. It has long been unavailable; the authors have completely rewritten it for this new edition, adding new text and new pictures.