| Description |
159 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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."-- |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Cities and towns.
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Civilization, Modern.
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Sustainable urban development.
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| LC no. |
2016042530 |
| ISBN |
3037785004 |
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9783037785003 |
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