49 cities / WORKac.

Main entry:

WORK Architecture Co.

Title & Author:

49 cities / WORKac.

Publication:

Description:

127 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
"Recognizing the recurrent nature of our environmental preoccupations and their impact in shaping utopias of the past, 49 cities inscribes our time within a larger historical context, rereading seminal projects and visionary cities of the past through an ecological lens of the present that goes beyond their declared ideology to compare and contrast their hypothetical ecological footprint."--Introd., p. 14
Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-127).

Summary:

Compares 49 cities--some actually built, and others that never reached beyond the planning stages--in terms of total site area, total built area, total greenspacem, total water area, total population density, and other factors.

ISBN:

9780615285863 (paperback)
0615285864 (paperback)

Subject:

City planning History.
City planning Environmental aspects.
Utopias History.
Utopies Histoire.
City planning.
Utopias.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Forty-nine cities

Holdings:

Location: Library main 262803
Call No.: BIB 193933
Status: Available

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