Main entry:

Solomon, Daniel, 1939-

Title & Author:

Global city blues / Daniel Solomon.

Publication:

Washington : Island Press, 2006.
©2003

Description:

xv, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 245) and index.
Measure the Night with Bells -- Peaches -- Alice -- The Monster -- Eichlers -- Three Eras -- The Dawn of Nonhistory -- The Moderns -- Turning Twenty -- Deliverance at the White Table -- Panic -- Erasure -- Colin Rowe -- Black Plans -- Style -- Why the City Is Not a Work of Art -- Another Truth -- At Home -- The Twelfth Map -- Surviving Success -- Out of Town -- Gemeindebauen -- Dorothy Lamour on a Flying Pigeon -- The Diagram -- The Prosperity Bomb -- Nearness for the Rich: The Case of Adrian Zecha -- Good Technology, Bad Technology -- New Words -- The Interview -- CNU [Congress for the New Urbanism] -- HOPE VI -- Monuments -- Plano.

Summary:

"In our rush to embrace the future, we invented new ways of building that rejected the past and sent people headlong into a placeless limbo where they are isolated from each other and cut off from such basic experiences of location as weather and the time of day." "In Global City Blues, renowned architect Daniel Solomon presents a perceptive overview and insightful assessment of how the power and seductiveness of modernist ideals led us on this wayward path. Through a series of independent but linked essays, he takes the reader on a personal expedition, introducing people, places, and ideas that have shaped thinking about planning and building and that laid the foundation for his beliefs about the world we inhabit and the kind of world we should strive to create."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

1597260851
9781597260855

Subject:

City planning.
Urbanization.
Architecture and society.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Urbanisation.
Architecture et société.
Modernisme (Esthétique)
urbanization.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 254044
Call No.: BIB 183891
Status: Available