The seduction of place : the city in the twenty-first century / Joseph Rykwert.

Main entry:

Rykwert, Joseph, 1926-

Title & Author:

The seduction of place : the city in the twenty-first century / Joseph Rykwert.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

xii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-267) and index.
1. How We Got There -- 2. First Aid -- 3. House and Home -- 4. Style, Type, and Urban Fabric -- 5. Flight from the City: Lived Space and Virtual Space -- 6. The Suburbs and the New Capitals -- 7. The Heart of the City and the Capital of a Globe -- 8. For the New Millennium?
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"To understand why people love or hate their cities and why cities succeed or fail their inhabitants, Joseph Rykwert examines a broad spectrum of urban centers. Among them are Mexico City, the world's largest metropolis, sprawled around its old center; Berlin, newly reunited and furiously rebuilding; New Delhi and Islamabad, new capitals that exist alongside older towns; grandly planned cities like Chandigarh, Canberra, and Brasilia; and more modest new towns like Columbia, Maryland, and Celebration, Florida, built in an attempt to correct the problems endemic to big cities." "Rykwert looks at image, style, and ornament; at public space and buildings; at infrastructure and street layout; at the visual qualities of contrast, strife, and energy that contribute to a city's appeal. Discussing both successes and failures, he suggests ways in which we can retain - or return to - the sense of place and individuation that determines the nourishing character and soul of the urban landscape."--Jacket.

Resources:
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Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0375400486
9780375400483
0297819992
9780297819998

Subject:

Cities and towns.
Architecture.
City planning.
Architecture, Modern.
Cities
City Planning
Villes.
Urbanisme.
cities.
architecture (discipline)
urban planning.
Städtebau
Urbanität
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
Stedenbouw.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213185
Call No.: HT151 .R9 2000
Status: Available

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