Makeshift metropolis : ideas about cities / Witold Rybczynski.

Main entry:

Rybczynski, Witold.

Title & Author:

Makeshift metropolis : ideas about cities / Witold Rybczynski.

Edition:

1st Scribner hardcover ed.

Publication:

New York : Scribner, 2010.

Description:

xiv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218) and index.
Remaking the city -- Three big ideas -- Home remedies -- Mr. Wright and the disappearing city -- The demand-side of urbanism -- Arcades and malls, big boxes and lifestyle centers -- On the waterfront -- The Bilbao anomaly -- Putting the pieces together -- The kind of cities we want -- The kind of cities we need.

Summary:

Reveals how current ideas about urban planning evolved from definitive twentieth-century movements and the seminal creations of leading architects, offering insight into the practices of today's market-age constructions.

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Publisher description
Contributor biographical information

ISBN:

9781416561255
1416561250
9781416561262 (pbk.)
1416561269 (pbk.)
(ebook)
9781416561293
1416561293

Subject:

City planning United States.
Architecture and society United States.
Architecture et société États-Unis.
74.72 urban planning.
Architecture and society.
City planning.
Architecture United States.
United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban^ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning.

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 274772
Call No.: BIB 208655
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available

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