Entrée principale:

Work Architecture Company.

Titre et auteur:

49 cities / WORKac.

Édition:

Third edition.

Publication:

New York : Inventory Press, [2015]

Description:

143 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 24 x 24 cm

Notes:
Findings / Dan Wood -- 49 cities in chronological order : Roman city ; Latin American city ; Neuf-Brisach ; Savannah ; Royal Salt Works ; Phalanstère ; Jeffersonville ; Paris (1850) ; Marienburg ; Garden City ; Roadtown ; Cité Industrielle ; Rush city reformed ; Broadacre city ; Radiant city ; Chicago ; Communitas 1 ; Communitas 2 ; Levittown ; Fort Worth ; Brasilia ; Hauptstadt ; Agricultural city ; Bridge city ; Dome over Manhattan ; Mesa city ; New Babylon ; Ocean city ; Tokyo Bay ; Helix city ; Clusters in the air ; Le Mirail ; Bridge-town over the Channel ; Frankfurt ; Mound ; Plug-in city ; Fun palace ; Ratingen-West ; Satellite city ; Tetrahedral city ; Linear city ; Continuous monument ; No-stop city ; Noahbabel ; Earthships ; Convention city ; Exodus ; Handloser ; Zarzis Resort ; Masdar city -- Essays and comparative data : Say not the struggle naught availeth: a discussion / Michael Webb, Amale Andraos, Dan Wood, and Joseph Grima -- Resurrecting the dodo: the death and life of urban planning / Sam Jacob -- Hippies with lab coats: a discussion between ant farm's Chip Lord and Curtis Schreier, Dan Wood, and Amale Andraos ; Everything interconnected: a correspondence between Yona Friedman and Dan Wood ; Rankings ; Population density -- Total population -- % greenspace -- % parkland -- Density by land use -- Density by surface use -- Floor area ratio: 3D area / 2D area -- Site area -- Density vs. built area -- Density vs. greenspace.

Résumé:

Throughout history architects and planners have dreamed of "better" and different cities--more controllable, more defensible, more efficient, more monumental, more organic, taller, denser, sparser or greener. With every plan, radical visions were proposed, ones that embodied not only the desires but also, and more often, the fears and anxieties of their time. Today, with the failure of the suburban experiment and the looming end-of-the world predictions--from global warming and waste to post-peak oil energy crises and uncontrolled world urbanization--architects and urbanists find themselves once more at a crossroad, fertile for visionary thinking. 49 Cities is a call to re-engage cities as the site of radical thinking and experimentation, moving beyond "green building" toward an embrace of ideas, scale, vision and common sense combined with delirious imagination in the pursuit of empowering questioning and re-invention. In addition to enhanced, high-quality reproductions and illustrations, this cloth-bound third edition includes an interview between Amale Andraos, Dan Wood, Joseph Grima, and Archigram's Michael Webb, an essay on The Death and Life of Urban Planning by Sam Jacob (founder of FAT Architecture) and new interviews with culture-defining architects Chip Lord (Ant Farm) and Yona Friedman.

ISBN:

9781941753057
1941753051

Sujet:

City planning History.
City planning Environmental aspects.
Utopias History.
Utopies Histoire.
City planning
Utopias

Classification/genre:

History

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 293089
Cote: BIB 237742
Statut: Disponible