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The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition

Autor James Howard Kunstler
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 mar 2003
The City in Mind is a far-reaching discourse on the history and current state of urban life. Kunstler reflects on various and diverse cities across the world and investigates the nature and character of their city lives. From London to Mexico City, he takes an in-depth look at each city's history, development and state of architectural and societal success. Other cities explored include Rome, Berlin and Paris. In his investigations, he discovers a disparate Europe with its mix of pre-industrial creativity, war-marked reminders of the twentieth century, and the architectural aftermath of World War II, modernism, and for some, the Cold War. In his discussions on Western culture, Kunstler expands the notions of urbanism first discussed by Jane Jacobs. His examination of 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780743227230
ISBN-10: 0743227239
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 10-15 illustrations & line drawings
Dimensiuni: 140 x 214 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: Free Press
Colecția Free Press

Notă biografică

James Howard Kunstler is the author of two previous nonfiction books, The Geography of Nowhere and Home from Nowhere, and eight novels. His articles appear regularly in The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Slate, and Metropolis.

Cuprins

Contents

Preface

PARIS The Achievements of Napoleon III and Georges Eugène Haussman

ATLANTA Does Edge City Have a Future?

MEXICO CITY The End of the World and Other Cataclysms

BERLIN The Paradoxes of History

LAS VEGAS Utopia of Clowns

ROME In Search of the Classical

BOSTON Overcoming History and Modernism

LONDON Landscape as the Cure for Cities

Notes

Index

Recenzii

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Kunstler has given thousands of ordinary Americans a vocabulary for articulating what they love and loathe about their surroundings.
Lloyd Eby The World & I Kunstler's acerbic opinions and mastery of the apposite phrase, occurring on nearly every page, make for exhilarating reading.
Sam Morris San Francisco Chronicle Kunstler brings a real-world practicality that's lacking in too many books about cities. He's a thorough reporter, with a lively style.
Michael Fainelli The Christian Science Monitor Disturbing others' sense of normality is something Kunstler does well...everyone who knows his work acknowledges his power to wake up a crowd.

Descriere

An in-depth investigation of the developments of urban environments and how we are affected by them.