Dream cities : seven urban ideas that shape the world /
"A lively, unique, and accessible cultural history of modern cities--from suburbs, downtown districts, and exurban sprawl, to shopping malls and "sustainable" developments--that allows us to view them through the planning, design, architects, and movements that inspired, created, and...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Castles : Bertram Goodhue and the romantic city
- Monuments : Daniel Burnham and the ordered city
- Slabs : Le Corbusier, Robert Moses, and the rational city
- Homesteads : Frank Lloyd Wright and the anticity
- Corals : Jane Jacobs, Andres Duany, and the self-organizing city
- Malls : Victor Gruen, Jon Jerde, and the shopping city
- Habitats : Kenzo Tange, Norman Foster, and the techno-ecological city.