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The Architecture of the Cityby Aldo RossiISBN 0262680432 (0-262-68043-2)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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The Architecture of the Cityby Peter Eisenman, Aldo Rossi, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Institute for Architecture and Urban StudiesISBN 0262181010 (0-262-18101-0)
Hardcover, MIT Press
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The Art of Architecture in the Age of Ecologyby James WinesISBN 3822808113 (3-8228-0811-3)
Hardcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Architecture in the Age of Ecology'Book summary:When is a house ecological? Does the use of natural materials and solar cells on the roof make a building an example of "green" architecture? Perhaps even Antoni Gaud and Frank Lloyd Wright designed "greener" buildings than most contemporary architects, whose low-energy houses scarcely differ outwardly from traditional ones. James Wines puts up the various - and often irreconcilable - concepts of environmentally-friendly architecture for discussion, making a case for an architecture that not only focuses on technological solutions, but also tries to reconcile man and nature in its formal idiom. Among the examples of contemporary ecological architecture presented are works by Emilio Ambasz, Gustav Peichl, Arthur Quarmby, Jean Nouvel, Sim Van der Ryn, Jourda and Perraudin, Log ID, James Cutler, Stanley Saitowitz, Francois Roche, and Nigel Coates. [via]
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An Atlas of Rare City Maps: Comparative Urban Design, 1830-1842by Melville C. BranchISBN 1568980736 (1-56898-073-6)
Hardcover, Princeton Architectural Pr
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Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Centuryby Peter HallISBN 0631232524 (0-631-23252-4)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century'Book summary:This is a history of the ideas, events and personalities that shaped the cities of the world during the twentieth century. Peter Hall shows the benevolent influence of the anarchist ideals of Reclus and Kropotkin in the work of Howard, Geddes and Lloyd Wright, which found expression in garden cities and community planning. He contrasts this with the totalitarian vision of Le Corbusier which, spurned by Mussolini and Stalin, was enthusiastically taken up by countless city authorities in Europe and America. He explores the nightmare cities of Brasilia and Chandigarh and seeks the origins of the high-rise slums and vandalized spaces that afflict the lives of so many people. Planners have become the handmaidens of business, architects the designers of spectacle: both have retreated from any active interest in real, social achievement. Meanwhile the threat to civilized life represented on the one hand by the despair and resentment of the urban underclass and on the other by uncontrolled demolition and development, remains as real and as intractable as ever. Peter Hall is author of over 20 books on planning and related subjects including "London 2000", "The World Cities" "Great Planning Disasters" and "High Tech America". He has been credited with the invention of the "urban enterprise zone" concept. He is widely known throughout the west for his contributions both to the practice and to the theory of city and regional planning. [via]
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- Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century: ISBN 0631175679 (0-631-17567-9)
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The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form Through Historyby Spiro KostofISBN 0500281726 (0-500-28172-6)
Softcover, Thames & Hudson
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- The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form Through History: ISBN 0821225995 (0-8212-2599-5)
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospectsby Lewis MumfordISBN 156731211X (1-56731-211-X)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects'Book summary:Lewis Mumford's massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence--from the earliest group habitats to medieval towns to the modern centers of commerce (as well as dozens of black-and-white illustrations)--to show how the urban form has changed throughout human civilization. His tone is ultimately somewhat pessimistic: Mumford was deeply concerned with what he viewed as the dehumanizing aspects of the metropolitan trend, which he deemed "a world of professional illusionists and their credulous victims." (In another typically unrestrained criticism, he dubbed the Pentagon a Bronze Age monument to humanity's basest impulses, as well as an "effete and worthless baroque conceit.") Mumford hoped for a rediscovery of urban principles that emphasized humanity's organic relationship to its environment. The City in History remains a powerfully influential work, one that has shaped the agendas of urban planners, sociologists, and social critics since its publication in the 1960s. [via]
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The City in Late Antiquityby John RichISBN 0415144310 (0-415-14431-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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The City in Mind: Meditations on the Urban Conditionby James Howard KunstlerISBN 0743227239 (0-7432-2723-9)
Softcover, Free Pr
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The City in Mind : Notes on the Urban Conditionby James Howard KunstlerISBN 0684845911 (0-684-84591-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City in Mind : Notes on the Urban Condition'Book summary:In "The Geography of Nowhere," James Howard Kunstler declared suburbia "a tragic landscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside" and put himself at the heart of a fierce debate over how we will live in twenty-first century America. Now, Kunstler turns his wickedly mordant and astute eye on urban life both in America and across the world. From classical Rome to the "gigantic hairball" of contemporary Atlanta, he offers a far-reaching discourse on the history and current state of urban life.
"The City in Mind" tells the story of urban design and how the architectural makeup of a city directly influences its culture as well as its success. From the ingenious architectural design of Louis-Napoleon's renovation of Paris to the bloody collision of cultures that occurred when Cortes conquered the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, from the grandiose architectural schemes of Hitler and Albert Speer to the meanings behind the ludicrous spectacle of Las Vegas, Kunstler opens up a new dialogue on the development and effects of urban construction. In his investigations, he discovers American communities in the Sunbelt and Southwest alienated from each other and themselves, Northeastern cities caught between their initial civic construction and our current car-obsessed society, and a disparate Europe with its mix of pre-industrial creativity, and war-marked reminders of the twentieth century.
Expanding on ideas first discussed in Jane Jacobs' seminal work, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities," Kunstler looks to Europe to discover what is constant and enduring in cities at their greatest, and at the same time, how a city's design can be directly linked toits decline. In these dazzling excursions he finds the reasons that America got lost in its suburban wilderness and locates the pathways in culture that might lead to a civic revival here. Kunstler's examination of these cities is at once a concise history of their urban lives and a detailed criticism of how those histories have either aided or hindered the social and civil progress of the cities' occupants. By turns dramatic and wildly comic, and always authoritative, "The City in Mind," is an exceptional glimpse into the urban condition. [via]
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City Lifeby Witold RybczynskiISBN 0684825295 (0-684-82529-5)
Softcover, Scribner
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City Life: Urban Expectations in a New Worldby Witold RybczynskiISBN 0684813025 (0-684-81302-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City Life : Urban Expectations in a New World'Book summary:In City Life, Witold Rybczynski looks at what we want from cities, how they have evolved, and what accounts for their unique identities. In this vivid description of everything from the early colonial settlements to the advent of the skyscraper to the changes wrought by the automobile, the telephone, the airplane, and telecommuting, Rybczynski reveals how our urban spaces have been shaped by the landscapes and lifestyles of the New World. [via]
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angelesby Mike Davis, Robert MorrowISBN 1844675688 (1-84467-568-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles'Book summary:Mike Davis peers into a looking glass to divine the future of Los Angeles, and what he sees is not encouraging: a city--or better, a concatenation of competing city states--torn by racial enmity, economic disparity, and social anomie. Looking backward, Davis suggests that Los Angeles has always been contested ground. In the 1840s, he writes, a combination of drought and industrial stock raising led to the destruction of small-scale Spanish farming in the region. In the 1910s, Los Angeles was the scene of a bitter conflict between management and industrial workers, so bitter that the publisher of the Los Angeles Times retreated to a heavily fortified home he called "The Bivouac." And in 1992, much of the city fell before flames and riot in a scenario Davis describes as thus: "Gangs are multiplying at a terrifying rate, cops are becoming more arrogant and trigger-happy, and a whole generation is being shunted toward some impossible Armageddon." Davis's voice-in-a-whirlwind approach to the past, present, and future of Los Angeles is alarming and arresting, and his book is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary affairs. --Gregory MacNamee [via]
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- City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles: ISBN 0679738061 (0-679-73806-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc - City of Quartz: Excavating the Future of Los Angeles: ISBN 0860913031 (0-86091-303-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles: ISBN 1844675688 (1-84467-568-8)
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The City of To-Morrow and Its Planningby Le CorbusierISBN 0486253325 (0-486-25332-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City of To-Morrow and Its Planning'Book summary:The great revolutionary architect's probing analysis of urban problems and their origins, and his bold solutions, which include the "Voisin" scheme for the center of Paris, and the more developed scheme for a "City of Three Million Inhabitants." Introduction. Foreword. 133 black-and-white illustrations. 82 black-and-white halftones.[via]More editions of The City of To-Morrow and Its Planning:
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The City Readerby Richard T. Legates, Frederic StoutISBN 0415271738 (0-415-27173-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City Reader'Book summary:This second edition of "The City Reader" brings together writing on the city. Each piece is introduced with a brief intellectual biography and a review of the authors' writings and related literature, and an explanation of how the piece fits into the broader context of: urban history and practice; competing ideological perspectives on the city; and the major current debates concerning race and gender, global restructuring, sustainable urban development, and the impact of technology and postmodernism. [via]
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The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through Historyby Spiro KostofISBN 0821220160 (0-8212-2016-0)
Softcover, Bulfinch Pr
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Collage Cityby Colin Rowe, Fred KoetterISBN 0262680424 (0-262-68042-4)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collage City'Book summary:This book is a critical reappraisal of contemporary theories of urban planning and design and of the role of the architect-planner in an urban context. The authors rejecting the grand utopian visions of "total planning" and "total design," propose instead a "collage city" which can accommodate a whole range of utopias in miniature. [via]
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United Statesby Kenneth T. JacksonISBN 0195132874 (0-19-513287-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States'Book summary:This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, and rapid transportation, Kenneth Jackson chronicles the phenomenal growth of the American suburb from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. He treats communities in every section of the U.S. and compares American residential patterns with those of Japan and Europe. In conclusion, Jackson offers a controversial prediction: that the future of residential deconcentration will be very different from its past in both the U.S. and Europe.
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Dead Cities: And Other Talesby Mike DavisISBN 1565848446 (1-56584-844-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Death and Life of Great American Citiesby Jane JacobsISBN 067974195X (0-679-74195-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Death and Life of Great American Cities'Book summary:Jane Jacobs sets out to produce an attack on current city-planning and rebuilding in America and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on the urban environment. Inspired by the ideals of the Garden City or Le Corbusier's Radiant City, they have dreamt up ambitious projects based on self-contained neighbourhoods, super-blocks, rigid "scientific" plans and endless acres of grass. Yet they seldom stop to look at what actually works on the ground. The real vitality of cities, argues Jacobs, lies in their diversity, architectural variety, teeming street life and human scale. It is only when we appreciate such fundamental realities that we can hope to create cities that are safe, interesting and economically viable, as well as places that people want to live in. [via]
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- The Death and Life of Great American Cities: ISBN 0140551417 (0-14-055141-7)
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Hardcover, Penguin - The Death and Life of Great American Cities: ISBN 0375508732 (0-375-50873-2)
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Delirious New Yorkby Rem KoolhaasISBN 1885254008 (1-885254-00-8)
Softcover, Monacelli Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan'Book summary:In this fanciful volume, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.), both analyzes and celebrates New York City. By suggesting the city as the site for an infinite variety of human activities and events--both real and imagined--the essence of the metropolitan lifestyle, its "culture of congestion" and its architecture are revealed in a brilliant new light. "Manhattan," Koolhaas writes, "is the 20th century's Rosetta stone . . . occupied by architectural mutations (Central Park, the Skyscraper), utopian fragments (Rockefeller Center, the U.N. Building), and irrational phenomena (Radio City Music Hall)." Filled with fascinating facts, as well as photographs, postcards, maps, watercolors, and drawings, the vibrancy of Koolhaas's poignant exploration of Gotham equals the heady, frenetic energy of the city itself. Anyone who loves New York will want to own this book. [via]
Dialectical Urbanism: Social Struggles in the Capitalist Cityby Andy MerrifieldISBN 1583670602 (1-58367-060-2)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Ecology of Fearby Mike DavisISBN 0375706070 (0-375-70607-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Ecology of Fear : Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disasterby Mike DavisISBN 0805051066 (0-8050-5106-6)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecology of Fear : Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster'Book summary:The 1990s have not been kind to Los Angeles. As Mike Davis writes, "The destructive February 1992, January 1993, and January 1995 floods ($500 million in damage) were mere brackets around the April 1992 insurrection ($1 billion), the October-November 1993 firestorms ($1 billion) and the January 1994 earthquake ($42 billion)." But, he argues, the increasing fear about nature's reign of terror in Southern California reflected in Hollywood's preoccupation with apocalypse--L.A. has been destroyed on screen by everything from lava (Volcano) to nukes (Miracle Mile) to alien death rays (Independence Day)--is in reality a strong case of denial. Again, Davis himself says it best: "For generations, market-driven urbanization has transgressed environmental common sense. Historic wildfire corridors have been turned into view-lot suburbs, wetland liquefaction zones into marinas, and floodplains into industrial districts and housing tracts. Monolithic public works have been substituted for regional planning and a responsible land ethic. As a result, Southern California has reaped flood, fire, and earthquake tragedies that were as avoidable, as unnatural, as the beating of Rodney King and the ensuing explosion in the streets."
As in City of Quartz, his earlier book about Los Angeles, Davis reveals the deeper ideological narratives behind historical events. Whether he's explaining the motivations behind the persistent refusal of civic leaders to admit that a tornado alley runs down the middle of the region, from Long Beach to Pasadena, or discussing, as one chapter refers to it, "the case for letting Malibu burn," he outlines his arguments with a fascinating amount of detail and a subtle sense of irony. There are wonderful chapters here, such as "Maneaters of the Sierra Madre," a zoology of the wild beasts Angelenos fear, including mountain lions that descend from the hills to eat joggers and small children, swarms of Africanized killer bees making their way across the deserts, and El Chupacabra, the "goat-sucking vampire" that joined L.A.'s roster of faddish icons in 1996.
Although this book is specifically about Los Angeles, its lessons about the relationship between urban developments and natural ecosystems and about the dangerous influence of class politics on environmental safety policy are applicable to any city. Anyone with a serious interest in natural history or urban policy should make a point of reading this book. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Edge Cityby Joel GarreauISBN 0385424345 (0-385-42434-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edge City'Book summary:First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City. [via]
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The Edge City: Life on the New Frontierby Joel GarreauISBN 0385262493 (0-385-26249-3)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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The European Cityby Leonardo Benevolo, Carl IpsenISBN 0631173021 (0-631-17302-1)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscapeby James Howard KunstlerISBN 0671888250 (0-671-88825-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Great Leap Forward: Harvard Design School Project on the Cityby Rem Koolhaas, Sze Tsung Leong, Jeffrey Inaba, Judy Chung ChuihuaISBN 3822860484 (3-8228-6048-4)
Hardcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Leap Forward: Harvard Design School Project on the City'Book summary:Chung, Chuihua Judy / Jeffrey Inaba ( Rem Koolhaas / Sze Tsung Leong (Ed.): Great Leap Forward, Harvard Design School Project on the City, With many illustrations, EA, Köln, Taschen 2001, 25x20 cm, 722 S., OKart., sehr gut erhalten [via]
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Green Architectureby WinesISBN 3822863033 (3-8228-6303-3)
Softcover, Taschen America Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Green Architecture'Book summary:[via]When is a house ecological? Does the use of natural materials and solar cells on the roof make a building an example of "green" architecture? Perhaps even Antoni Gaud???????????????? and Frank Lloyd Wright designed "greener" buildings than most contemporary architects, whose low-energy houses scarcely differ outwardly from traditional ones. James Wines puts up the various - and often irreconcilable - concepts of environmentally-friendly architecture for discussion, making a case for an architecture that not only focuses on technological solutions, but also tries to reconcile man and nature in its formal idiom. Among the examples of contemporary ecological architecture presented are works by Emilio Ambasz, Gustav Peichl, Arthur Quarmby, Jean Nouvel, Sim Van der Ryn, Jourda and Perraudin, Log ID, James Cutler, Stanley Saitowitz, Fran????????????????ois Roche, Nigel Coates and Michael Sorkin.More editions of Green Architecture:
The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping : Project on the Cityby Rem Koolhaas, Jeffrey Inaba, Chuihua Judy Chung, Sze Tsung LeongISBN 3822860476 (3-8228-6047-6)
Hardcover, Taschen America, LLC
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How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Takenby Alex MarshallISBN 0292752407 (0-292-75240-7)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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The Image of the Cityby Kevin LynchISBN 0262620014 (0-262-62001-4)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Image of the City'Book summary:What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion--imageability--and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities.The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book. [via]
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Invisible Citiesby Italo Calvino, William WeaverISBN 0156453800 (0-15-645380-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Invisible Cities'Book summary:"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his." So begins Italo Calvino's compilation of fragmentary urban images. As Marco tells the khan about Armilla, which "has nothing that makes it seem a city, except the water pipes that rise vertically where the houses should be and spread out horizontally where the floors should be," the spider-web city of Octavia, and other marvelous burgs, it may be that he is creating them all out of his imagination, or perhaps he is recreating details of his native Venice over and over again, or perhaps he is simply recounting some of the myriad possible forms a city might take. [via]
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Istanbul: A Life And A Cityby Orhan PamukISBN 0571218326 (0-571-21832-6)
Hardcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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Istanbul: Memories And The Cityby Orhan Pamuk, Maureen FreelyISBN 1400033888 (1-4000-3388-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Istanbul: Memories And the City'Book summary:A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the worlds great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His portrait of his city is thus also a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholyor hüzün that all Istanbullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.With cinematic fluidity, Pamuk moves from his glamorous, unhappy parents to the gorgeous, decrepit mansions overlooking the Bosphorus; from the dawning of his self-consciousness to the writers and paintersboth Turkish and foreignwho would shape his consciousness of his city. Like Joyces Dublin and Borges Buenos Aires, Pamuks Istanbul is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving. [via]
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Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Formby Robert VenturiISBN 026272006X (0-262-72006-X)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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The Limits of the Cityby Murray BookchinISBN 0920057640 (0-920057-64-0)
Softcover, Black Rose Books Ltd
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Los Angeles: The Architecture of 4 Ecologiesby Reyner BanhamISBN 0140211780 (0-14-021178-0)
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Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologiesby Reyner BanhamISBN 0520219244 (0-520-21924-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies'Book summary:DIVERSE AS FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, CHARLES EAMES, RICHARD NEUTRA AND SIMON RODIA (WHO DESIGNED THE UNIQUE WATTS TOWERS) IN THEIR PROPER CONTEXTS OF MOUNTAINS, PLAINS, BEACHES AND FREEWAYS. [via]
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Mutationsby Sanford Kwinter, Rem Koolhaas, Stefano Boeri, Nadia TaziISBN 8495273519 (84-95273-51-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mutations'Book summary:"A city is a plane of tarmac with some red hot spots of intensity," Rem Koolhaas, the pathbreaking architect and author of such semiotically seminal books as Delirious New York and the more recent S, M, L, XL, remarked in 1969. More than 30 years later, there are more of those hot spots around the world than ever, and they're getting hotter every day. Globalization, standardization, and the high-speed innovations of our current information age are transforming urban centers from London to Los Angeles to Lagos, and more places are becoming more urban, and at a faster pace, than ever before.
Mutations is an eye-popping atlas-cum-analysis of this new urbanization, and much of it is composed of essays and meditations (from a variety of contributors) on the 21st-century international City (often un-)Beautiful. Most of them are written in language that will be familiar to readers of Koolhaas's past books: in other words, dense, abstract, and chock-full of references to Foucault, Deleuze, and Guattari. If you like that sort of deconstructivist yammering, great; if not, the major small-type essays are best sampled (or, better, skimmed) one at a time, interspersed with the many other more accessible elements of the book that truly do add up to a vivid and fascinating mosaic of postmodern urbanism.
From Koolhaas and Harvard Design School's Project on the City come two engrossing and wholly straightforward explorations: one of the Pearl River Delta, which China has designated as a zone of unrestricted capitalist experimentation, and whose five major urban centers have consequently exploded overnight in all sorts of instructive and often frightening ways; and another of the chaotic, congested and Blade Runneresque megalopolis of Lagos, Nigeria, whose patterns of growth, housing, and commerce defy all conventional wisdom on how cities should develop. There's also a bounty of excellent (and often astonishing) statistics on all aspects of urban growth; a "snapshots" section of phenomena from cities all over the globe; a completely spot-on (and unintentionally funny) analysis of the evolution of shopping as the last truly unifying urban public activity (and the subject of Koolhaas's next full-scale book); and a trenchant look at Kosovo as ground zero in the first major war of the Internet age. (It should be noted that there's a separate section on the U.S., which with all its soulless, tacky consumerist excess gets the drubbing it usually can expect from the European intelligentsia, although the irony here is that more and more of newly urban Europe is starting to look like newly urban America.)
The exhibit-quality photography throughout is great, and, as you could expect from this unofficial successor to S, M, L, XL, the design is satisfyingly outré, right down to its post-Warholian plastic yellow easy-wipe cover with glued-on mousepad. But for all of Mutations's rich trove of facts and insights, and the impression that its high-tech design gives of an ironic embrace of the new urbanization, its deeper tone is one of disappointment and loss. The spirit of Jane Jacobs resides here, with all its yearning for the quirky, quaint beauty of human-scaled townhouses and shops, sidewalks and byways, and for the precorporatized glamour of grand old towns like New York, London, Paris, and Shanghai, before such metallic nouveau hubs as Atlanta and Kuala Lumpur were ever on the world-commerce map. Mutations was written and compiled largely by architects, after all, who hate ugliness as much as the next guy, whatever they may claim otherwise; its precisely for that reason that this densely absorbing new compendium betrays its wistfulness as often as it promotes its own air of cool, ethnographic bemusement. --Timothy Murphy [via]
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The Nature of Economiesby Jane JacobsISBN 0375702431 (0-375-70243-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Nature of Economies'Book summary:Nearly forty years after The Death and Life of Great American Cities forever changed the field of urban studies, Jane Jacobs--one of the few contemporary thinkers whose works will remain in print for generations--brings us a modern classic on economies and ecology. Original and eloquent, this new book looks at the connection between the economy and nature, arguing that the principles of development, common to both systems, are the proper subject of economic study.
The Nature of Economies is written in the form of a Platonic dialogue, a conversation over coffee among five contemporary New Yorkers. The question they discuss is: Does economic life obey the same rules as those governing the systems in nature? For example, can the way fields and forests maximize their intakes and uses of sunlight teach us something about how economies expand wealth and jobs and can do this in environmentally beneficial ways? The underlying question is both simple and profound, and the answers that emerge will shape the way people think about how economies really work.
The New York Times described Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities as "first of all a work of literature." The accessibility of her prose--The New Criterion called it "majestic"--stands as Jacobs's hallmark. She is the rarest of analytic thinkers, both an economic visionary and an artist. Examining complex systems with the wit, style, and clear eye of the masterly essayist, in The Nature of Economies Jacobs once again accomplishes the near impossible: She fundamentally challenges some of the established principles of economics while writing in a style that enthralls the general reader. [via]More editions of The Nature of Economies:
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Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernityby Marc Auge, John HoweISBN 1859840515 (1-85984-051-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Planet of Slumsby Mike DavisISBN 1844670228 (1-84467-022-8)
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The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes As Public Historyby Dolores HaydenISBN 0262581523 (0-262-58152-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes As Public History'Book summary:Winner, 1995, category of Archeology and Anthropology, Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc.
Based on her extensive experience in the urban communities of Los Angeles, historian and architect Dolores Hayden proposes new perspectives on gender, race, and ethnicity to broaden the practice of public history and public art, enlarge urban preservation, and reorient the writing of urban history to spatial struggles.
In the first part of The Power of Place, Hayden outlines the elements of a social history of urban space to connect people's lives and livelihoods to the urban landscape as it changes over time. She then explores how communities and professionals can tap the power of historic urban landscapes to nurture public memory.
The second part documents a decade of research and practice by The Power of Place, a nonprofit organization Hayden founded in downtown Los Angeles. Through public meetings, walking tours, artists's books, and permanent public sculpture, as well as architectural preservation, teams of historians, designers, planners, and artists worked together to understand, preserve, and commemorate urban landscape history as African American, Latina, and Asian American families have experienced it.
One project celebrates the urban homestead of Biddy Mason, an African American ex-slave and midwife active betwen 1856 and 1891. Another reinterprets the Embassy Theater where Rose Pesotta, Luisa Moreno, and Josefina Fierro de Bright organized Latina dressmakers and cannery workers in the 1930s and 1940s. A third chapter tells the story of a historic district where Japanese American family businesses flourished from the 1890s to the 1940s. Each project deals with bitter memoriesslavery, repatriation, internmentbut shows how citizens survived and persevered to build an urban life for themselves, their families, and their communities.
Drawing on many similar efforts around the United States, from New York to Charleston, Seattle to Cincinnati, Hayden finds a broad new movement across urban preservation, public history, and public art to accept American diversity at the heart of the vernacular urban landscape. She provides dozens of models for creative urban history projects in cities and towns across the country. [via]More editions of The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes As Public History:
Precisions on the Present State of Architecture and City Planning With an American Prologue, a Brazilian Corollary Followed by the Temperature of pariby Lecorbusier, Edith Schreiber AujameISBN 0262121492 (0-262-12149-2)
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S,M,L,Xlby Rem KoolhausISBN 1885254865 (1-885254-86-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'S,M,L,Xl'Book summary:This extraordinary, massive, and mind-boggling 1,300-page book combines essays, manifestos, diaries, fairy tales, travelogues, a cycle of meditations on the contemporary city--and complex illustration--with work produced by Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture over the past twenty years. This almost overwhelming accumulation of words and images illuminates the condition of architecture today--its splendors and miseries--exploring and revealing the corrosive effects of politics, context, the economy, and globalization. In some ways, this is the "Medium is the Message" of 1990s architectural discourse: guaranteed to be hugely influential in the coming decades, but grossly misunderstood by those who have not read it. The core arguments it makes about metropolitan architecture--accepting complexity and lack of centralized control--are similar to those of Kevin Kelly's Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World. Very highly recommended. [via]
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Seduction of Place: The City in the Twenty-First Century and Beyondby Joseph RykwertISBN 0375400486 (0-375-40048-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seduction of Place: The City in the Twenty-First Century and Beyond'Book summary:The subtitle to this, the tenth book by architecture professor (and lively writer) Joseph Rykwert--namely, "The City in the Twenty-First Century and Beyond"--is a whopping misnomer. It is only in the final chapter that Rykwert pays attention (and briskly, even then) to urban developments of recent years and to what we might expect in the 100 years to come. What this book really is, despite what its subtitlers intended, is at once a broad-ranging and satisfyingly detailed social history of some of the great cities of the modern world (mostly the Western one, with a marked emphasis on the two cities Rykwert calls home--New York and London--plus Paris) and an inquiry into how well they have served the material and spiritual lives of the people who inhabit them.
Ranging comfortably and coherently back and forth between the Old World and the New, Rykwert begins with the Industrial Revolution, its factories, the throngs of poor country people that flooded the cities to work in them, and the subsequent 150-year challenge faced by urban centers to house, transport, and entertain these throngs cheaply, space-consciously, and hygienically. But Seduction of Place is not so much a people's history of the city as it is a vibrantly researched and chronicled play-by-play of the big public--and some private--works of the major metropolises. The book also tackles the luminaries--including Haussmann, Olmstead and Vaux, L'Enfant, and Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (who pioneered the enduring school of axial planning at Paris' Ecole Polytechnique)--whose names are often uttered in the same breath as the parks, boulevards, and edifices they brought to life.
Social critics like Tocqueville, Marx, Engels, Fourier, and Ruskin are just as well-represented here, however, ably providing the basis for Rykwert's persistent question of what cities ought to be and how responses to that have diverged and evolved over the years, apart from what they have become, for better or ill, and how they got that way. Even though the book takes a more or less familiar course through the 20th century--from the emergence of subways, skyscrapers, and modernism through postwar urban planning, suburban sprawl, and subsequent urban decay and attempts at renewal--Rykwert knows when to dart away from well-known people, places, and things to chronicle the planning of lesser-known English "New Towns" or of distinctly 20th-century cities like New Delhi, Islamabad, Australia's Canberra, and--rather famously--Brasilia, the ultimate "zoned" city.
The final chapter pays the requisite nod to the postmodernist implications of, for example, Celebration, Florida, (Disney's controversial new spin on the "company town") but is really distinguished by Rykwert's startlingly on-the-mark reading of how such wildly popular mega-museums as the new international Guggenheim franchise (with Gehry's Bilbao "branch" currently eclipsing Wright's New York "flagship") have come to best personify the encroachment of corporate globalization in the urban civic realm. It is a fitting conclusion for a book that manages so gracefully to wed an engrossing history of urban growth with the deeper intellectual, cultural, and ethical questions it raises--the very questions that the speculators, preservationists, and "ordinary citizens" will still have to answer in creating and sustaining the great cities of the 21st century. --Timothy Murphy [via]
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The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of the Cityby Joseph RykwertISBN 0375700447 (0-375-70044-7)
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The Situationist Cityby Simon SadlerISBN 0262692252 (0-262-69225-2)
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Situationist International Anthologyby Ken KnabbISBN 0939682044 (0-939682-04-4)
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Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dreamby Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff SpeckISBN 0865476063 (0-86547-606-3)
Softcover, North Point Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream'Book summary:A manifesto by America's most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative model for community design.[via]
There is a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to replace the automobile-based settlement patterns of the past fifty years with a return to more traditional planning principles. This movement stems not only from the realization that sprawl is ecologically and economically unsustainable but also from a growing awareness of sprawl's many victims: children, utterly dependent on parental transportation if they wish to escape the cul-de-sac; the elderly, warehoused in institutions once they lose their driver's licenses; the middle class, stuck in traffic for two or more hours each day.
Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of this movement, and in Suburban Nation they assess sprawl's costs to society, be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, or social. It is a lively, thorough, critical lament, and an entertaining lesson on the distinctions between postwar suburbia-characterized by housing clusters, strip shopping centers, office parks, and parking lots-and the traditional neighborhoods that were built as a matter of course until mid-century. It is an indictment of the entire development community, including governments, for the fact that America no longer builds towns. Most important, though, it is that rare book that also offers solutions.More editions of Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream:
Tokyo: A Certain Styleby Kyoichi TsuzukiISBN 0811824233 (0-8118-2423-3)
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Towards a New Architectureby Le CorbusierISBN 0486250237 (0-486-25023-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Towards a New Architecture'Book summary:This pioneering proclamation by the great architect expounds Le Corbusier's technical and aesthetic theories, views on industry, economics, the relation of form to function, "mass-production spirit," and much more. Profusely illustrated with over 200 line drawings and photographs of Le Corbusier's buildings and other important structures.[via]More editions of Towards a New Architecture:
Urban World / Global Cityby David ClarkISBN 041514437X (0-415-14437-X)
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The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity & City Lifeby Richard SennettISBN 0393309096 (0-393-30909-6)
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Utopia: Towards a New Torontoby Alana Wilcox, Jason McbrideISBN 1552451569 (1-55245-156-9)
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L'Architecture Verteby James WinesISBN 3822863467 (3-8228-6346-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L'Architecture Verte'Book summary:[via]When is a house ecological? Does the use of natural materials and solar cells on the roof make a building an example of "green" architecture? Perhaps even Antoni Gaud???????????????? and Frank Lloyd Wright designed "greener" buildings than most contemporary architects, whose low-energy houses scarcely differ outwardly from traditional ones. James Wines puts up the various - and often irreconcilable - concepts of environmentally-friendly architecture for discussion, making a case for an architecture that not only focuses on technological solutions, but also tries to reconcile man and nature in its formal idiom. Among the examples of contemporary ecological architecture presented are works by Emilio Ambasz, Gustav Peichl, Arthur Quarmby, Jean Nouvel, Sim Van der Ryn, Jourda and Perraudin, Log ID, James Cutler, Stanley Saitowitz, Fran????????????????ois Roche, Nigel Coates and Michael Sorkin.More editions of L'Architecture Verte:
Non-Lieux: Introduction a Une Anthropologie De La Surmoderniteby Marc AugeISBN 2020125269 (2-02-012526-9)
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Estambul/ Istanbul: Ciudad Y Recuerdos/ Memories and the Cityby Orhan PamukISBN 8439720297 (84-397-2029-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Estambul/ Istanbul: Ciudad Y Recuerdos/ Memories and the City'Book summary:Estambul es un retrato, en ocasiones panorámico y en otras íntimo y personal, de una de las ciudades más fascinantes de la Europa que mira a Asia. Pero es también una autobiografía, la del propio Orhan Pamuk. La historia da comienzo con el capítulo de su infancia, donde Pamuk nos habla sobre su excéntrica familia y su vida en un polvoriento apartamento -«los apartamentos Pamuk», así los denomina- en el centro de la ciudad. El autor recuerda que fue en aquellos días lejanos cuando tomó conciencia de que le había tocado vivir en un espacio plagado de melancolía: residente de un lugar en que arrastra un pasado glorioso y que intenta hacerse un hueco en la «modernidad». Viejos y hermosos edificios en ruinas, estatuas valiosas y mutantes, villas fantasmagóricas y callejuelas secretas donde, por encima de todo, destaca el terapéutico río Bósforo, que en la memoria del narrador es vida, salud y felicidad. Esta elegía sirve para que el autor introduzca a pintores, escritores y célebres asesinos, a través de cuyos ojos el narrador describe la ciudad. Hermoso retrato de una ciudad y una vida, ambas fascinantes por igual. [via]
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