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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.
| ISBN | 0262680424 | | Pages | 192 | | ISBN13 | 9780262680424
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | MIT Press Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 590 | | Imprint | MIT Press | | Published in | Cambridge, Mass. | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 297 | | Publication date | 01 Jan 1978 | | Width (mm) | 210 | | Library of Congress | NA9050.R68 | | Spine width (mm) | 16 | | DEWEY | 711.409 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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"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  Be the first to write a customer review
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