MOMENTAN AUSVERKAUFT
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMIT Press
ISBN-100262680424
ISBN-139780262680424
eBay Product ID (ePID)91176
Product Key Features
Book TitleCollage City
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1984
TopicUrban & Land Use Planning, History / Contemporary (1945-), Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, Criticism
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Architecture
AuthorFred Koetter, Colin Rowe
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight20.2 Oz
Item Length11.7 in
Item Width8.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsComing upon this book in rather a skeptical state of mind, I must say I found it intriguing, enlightening, brilliant, witty, and exasperating as it pursued its thesis with a species of grammatical acrobatics that I can only call arresting. This is a book about the ideologies of modern architecture, their philosophical origins, their manifestations, and the ways in which they are flawed. It is a book about architects who had and have conceptions about the ideal city, and it tries to reorient those conceptions from the utopia of a single vision to a more multivalent view of city form., "Coming upon this book in rather a skeptical state of mind, I must say I found it intriguing, enlightening, brilliant, witty, and exasperating as it pursued its thesis with a species of grammatical acrobatics that I can only call arresting. This is a book about the ideologies of modern architecture, their philosophical origins, their manifestations, and the ways in which they are flawed. It is a book about architects who had and have conceptions about the ideal city, and it tries to reorient those conceptions from the utopia of a single vision to a more multivalent view of city form." - Donald Appleyard, APA Journal
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal711.4
SynopsisThis 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.
