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Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities

Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities

Witold Rybczynski
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In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and "Slate "architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers "Home "and "A Clearing in the Distance." In "Makeshift Metropolis," Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once an intellectual history and a masterful critique. "Makeshift Metropolis "describes how current ideas about urban planning evolved from the movements that defined the twentieth century, such as City Beautiful, the Garden City, and the seminal ideas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Jane Jacobs. If the twentieth century was the age of planning, we now find ourselves in the age of the market, Rybczynski argues, where entrepreneurial developers are shaping the twenty-first-century city with mixed-use developments, downtown living, heterogeneity, density, and liveliness. He introduces readers to projects like Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Yards in Washington, D.C., and, further afield, to the new city of Modi'in, Israel--sites that, in this age of resource scarcity, economic turmoil, and changing human demands, challenge our notion of the city.

Erudite and immensely engaging, "Makeshift Metropolis "is an affirmation of Rybczynski's role as one of our most original thinkers on the way we live today.
Language
English
Pages
240
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Scribner
Release
November 09, 2010
ISBN
1416561250
ISBN 13
9781416561255

Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities

Witold Rybczynski
3.4/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and "Slate "architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers "Home "and "A Clearing in the Distance." In "Makeshift Metropolis," Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once an intellectual history and a masterful critique. "Makeshift Metropolis "describes how current ideas about urban planning evolved from the movements that defined the twentieth century, such as City Beautiful, the Garden City, and the seminal ideas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Jane Jacobs. If the twentieth century was the age of planning, we now find ourselves in the age of the market, Rybczynski argues, where entrepreneurial developers are shaping the twenty-first-century city with mixed-use developments, downtown living, heterogeneity, density, and liveliness. He introduces readers to projects like Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Yards in Washington, D.C., and, further afield, to the new city of Modi'in, Israel--sites that, in this age of resource scarcity, economic turmoil, and changing human demands, challenge our notion of the city.

Erudite and immensely engaging, "Makeshift Metropolis "is an affirmation of Rybczynski's role as one of our most original thinkers on the way we live today.
Language
English
Pages
240
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Scribner
Release
November 09, 2010
ISBN
1416561250
ISBN 13
9781416561255

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