Main entry:

Plunz, Richard, author.

Title & Author:

City riffs : urbanism, ecology, place / by Richard Plunz.

Publication:

New York : Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University ; Zurich : Lars Müller Publishers, 2017.

Description:

159 pages: illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Machine generated contents note: Field Urbanism -- Antwerp 1993 -- Thinking about Antwerp and the Ideal of Metropole -- Detroit 1995 -- Detroit is Everywhere -- Manhattan 1996 -- The Scale Canard? -- Brussels 1998 -- The Conspiracy Against the City -- Mostar 1998 -- If Not Mostar, Then Where? -- Prague 2000 -- Conversations at the Mezi skolami School -- Caracas 2000 -- Time Capsule -- Salzburg 2001 -- After Shopping -- Larderello 2005 -- Notes from along the Val di Cecina -- Seoul 2007 -- Talking of the Han River -- Troy 2005 -- Crossing Paths 1966 -- 70 -- Brooklyn 2007 -- Scratching the Surface -- Rome 2008 -- The Design Equation -- Kumasi 2012 -- Garden City Redux? -- New Delhi 2014 -- Vagaries of Deterritorialization -- Turgutreis 2016 -- What We Did -- AFTERWORD -- Nesting.

Summary:

"City Riffs traces the changing perspectives of urban design within an ever-changing global context. Moving between sixteen cities, the book also considers trans-disciplinary aspects of urbanism; formal and informal growth in Kumasi and Caracas, post-colonial structures in New Delhi and Prague, post-urban phenomena in Detroit and Brussels; cultural transitions in Antwerp and Salzburg; the changing nature of place in Seoul and Mostar; and new ecological realities in New York and Rome. Urbanism is viewed as the production of space-integrating aspects of design, ecology, and engineering, as well as other influences on urban cognition such as social, economical, and psychological interactions. As it covers a wide range of places and methods, this book will be an asset to anyone who works on, lives in, or thinks about cities."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9783037785003 (paperback)
3037785004 (paperback)

Subject:

Cities and towns.
Sustainable urban development.
Civilization, Modern.
Cities
Villes.
Urbanisme durable.
cities.
ARCHITECTURE Urban & Land Use Planning.
ARCHITECTURE Criticism.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295329
Call No.: BIB 241488
Status: Available