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Historian Max Page argues that New York City, at the early part of the 20th century, was dominated by the politics of destruction and rebuilding. He examines the dichotomies inherent in the label "creative destruction", itself an oxymoron of sorts. The book is well illustrated with vintage photographs, drawings, and paintings.
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Historian Max Page argues that New York City, at the early part of the 20th century, was dominated by the politics of destruction and rebuilding. He examines the dichotomies inherent in the label "creative destruction", itself an oxymoron of sorts. The book is well illustrated with vintage photographs, drawings, and paintings.
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The creative destruction of Manhattan 1900-1940
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Historian Max Page argues that New York City, at the early part of the 20th century, was dominated by the politics of destruction and rebuilding. He examines the dichotomies inherent in the label "creative destruction", itself an oxymoron of sorts. The book is well illustrated with vintage photographs, drawings, and paintings.
The creative destruction of Manhattan 1900-1940
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Historian Max Page argues that New York City, at the early part of the 20th century, was dominated by the politics of destruction and rebuilding. He examines the dichotomies inherent in the label "creative destruction", itself an oxymoron of sorts. The book is well illustrated with vintage photographs, drawings, and paintings.
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November 1999, Chicago
November 1999, Chicago
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Picking up where his best-selling City of Bits left off, Mitchell argues that we must extend the definitions of architecture and urban design to encompass virtual places as well as physical ones, and interconnection by means of telecommunication links as well as by pedestrian (...)
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Picking up where his best-selling City of Bits left off, Mitchell argues that we must extend the definitions of architecture and urban design to encompass virtual places as well as physical ones, and interconnection by means of telecommunication links as well as by pedestrian (...)
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E-topia : "Urban life, Jim -- but not as we know it"
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Picking up where his best-selling City of Bits left off, Mitchell argues that we must extend the definitions of architecture and urban design to encompass virtual places as well as physical ones, and interconnection by means of telecommunication links as well as by pedestrian circulation and mechanized transportation systems. He proposes strategies for the creation of cities that not only will be sustainable but will make economic, social, and cultural sense in an electronically interconnected and global world. The new settlement patterns of the twenty-first century will be characterized by live/work dwellings, 24-hour pedestrian-scale neighborhoods rich in social relationships, and vigorous local community life, complemented by far-flung configurations of electronic meeting places and decentralized production, marketing, and distribution systems. Neither digiphile nor digiphobe, Mitchell advocates the creation of e-topias--cities that work smarter, not harder.
E-topia : "Urban life, Jim -- but not as we know it"
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Picking up where his best-selling City of Bits left off, Mitchell argues that we must extend the definitions of architecture and urban design to encompass virtual places as well as physical ones, and interconnection by means of telecommunication links as well as by pedestrian circulation and mechanized transportation systems. He proposes strategies for the creation of cities that not only will be sustainable but will make economic, social, and cultural sense in an electronically interconnected and global world. The new settlement patterns of the twenty-first century will be characterized by live/work dwellings, 24-hour pedestrian-scale neighborhoods rich in social relationships, and vigorous local community life, complemented by far-flung configurations of electronic meeting places and decentralized production, marketing, and distribution systems. Neither digiphile nor digiphobe, Mitchell advocates the creation of e-topias--cities that work smarter, not harder.
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October 1999, Cambridge
October 1999, Cambridge
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of this movement, and in Suburban Nation they assess sprawl's costs to society, be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, or social. It is a lively, thorough, critical lament, and an entertaining lesson on(...)
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Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of this movement, and in Suburban Nation they assess sprawl's costs to society, be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, or social. It is a lively, thorough, critical lament, and an entertaining lesson on(...)
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Urban Theory
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January 2000, New York
January 2000, New York
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Suburban nation : the rise of sprawl and the decline of the American dream
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Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of this movement, and in Suburban Nation they assess sprawl's costs to society, be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, or social. It is a lively, thorough, critical lament, and an entertaining lesson on the distinctions between postwar suburbia-characterized by housing clusters, strip malls, office parks, and parking lots-and the traditional neighborhoods that were built as a matter of course until mid-century. It is an indictment of the entire development community, including governments, for the fact that America no longer builds towns.
Suburban nation : the rise of sprawl and the decline of the American dream
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Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of this movement, and in Suburban Nation they assess sprawl's costs to society, be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, or social. It is a lively, thorough, critical lament, and an entertaining lesson on the distinctions between postwar suburbia-characterized by housing clusters, strip malls, office parks, and parking lots-and the traditional neighborhoods that were built as a matter of course until mid-century. It is an indictment of the entire development community, including governments, for the fact that America no longer builds towns.
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January 2000, New York
January 2000, New York
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"The Promise of the City" proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary (...)
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"The Promise of the City" proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary (...)
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The promise of the city : space, identity, and politics in contemporary social thought
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"The Promise of the City" proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structure. First, he says, urban identities cannot be understood through individualistic, communitarian, or class perspectives but rather through the shifting spectrum of cultural, political, and economic influences. Second, the layered, unfinished city spaces we inhabit and within which we create meaning are best represented not by the image of bounded physical spaces but rather by overlapping and shifting boundaries. And third, the macro forces shaping urban society include bureaucratic and governmental interventions not captured by a purely economic paradigm. Tajbakhsh examines these dimensions in the work of three major critical urban theorists of recent decades: Manuel Castells, David Harvey, and Ira Katznelson. He shows why the answers offered by Marxian urban theory to the questions of identity, space, and structure are unsatisfactory and why the perspectives of other intellectual traditions such as poststructuralism, feminism, Habermasian Critical Theory, and pragmatism can help us better understand the challenges facing contemporary cities.
The promise of the city : space, identity, and politics in contemporary social thought
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"The Promise of the City" proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structure. First, he says, urban identities cannot be understood through individualistic, communitarian, or class perspectives but rather through the shifting spectrum of cultural, political, and economic influences. Second, the layered, unfinished city spaces we inhabit and within which we create meaning are best represented not by the image of bounded physical spaces but rather by overlapping and shifting boundaries. And third, the macro forces shaping urban society include bureaucratic and governmental interventions not captured by a purely economic paradigm. Tajbakhsh examines these dimensions in the work of three major critical urban theorists of recent decades: Manuel Castells, David Harvey, and Ira Katznelson. He shows why the answers offered by Marxian urban theory to the questions of identity, space, and structure are unsatisfactory and why the perspectives of other intellectual traditions such as poststructuralism, feminism, Habermasian Critical Theory, and pragmatism can help us better understand the challenges facing contemporary cities.
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December 2000, Los Angeles
December 2000, Los Angeles
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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Le processus planétaire d'urbanisation accélérée sur tous les continents, et en particulier au Sud, s'inscrit dans une globalisation économique et technologique uniformisante dominée par la "pensée unique". Un monde viable et vivable ne peut plus s'accommoder de paysages urbains tels que ceux de l'âge haussmanien, ou ceux de la ville-chantier ou de la(...)
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Le processus planétaire d'urbanisation accélérée sur tous les continents, et en particulier au Sud, s'inscrit dans une globalisation économique et technologique uniformisante dominée par la "pensée unique". Un monde viable et vivable ne peut plus s'accommoder de paysages urbains tels que ceux de l'âge haussmanien, ou ceux de la ville-chantier ou de la(...)
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March 1999, Namur
March 1999, Namur
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Urbanisation et développement pour une planète viable et vivable
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Le processus planétaire d'urbanisation accélérée sur tous les continents, et en particulier au Sud, s'inscrit dans une globalisation économique et technologique uniformisante dominée par la "pensée unique". Un monde viable et vivable ne peut plus s'accommoder de paysages urbains tels que ceux de l'âge haussmanien, ou ceux de la ville-chantier ou de la ville-machine cassée d'un bout à l'autre. Cette publication fait suite au troisième Sommet des gouverneurs et des maires des grandes villes du monde sur "Le développement urbain durable" tenu à Montréal.
Urbanisation et développement pour une planète viable et vivable
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Le processus planétaire d'urbanisation accélérée sur tous les continents, et en particulier au Sud, s'inscrit dans une globalisation économique et technologique uniformisante dominée par la "pensée unique". Un monde viable et vivable ne peut plus s'accommoder de paysages urbains tels que ceux de l'âge haussmanien, ou ceux de la ville-chantier ou de la ville-machine cassée d'un bout à l'autre. Cette publication fait suite au troisième Sommet des gouverneurs et des maires des grandes villes du monde sur "Le développement urbain durable" tenu à Montréal.
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March 1999, Namur
March 1999, Namur
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This book examines how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape over the past 100 years together with a compelling strategy for reversing our automobile dependency. Jane Holtz Kay provides a history of the rapid spread of the automobile and documents the huge subsidies commanded by the highway lobby, to the detriment of once-efficient forms of mass(...)
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This book examines how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape over the past 100 years together with a compelling strategy for reversing our automobile dependency. Jane Holtz Kay provides a history of the rapid spread of the automobile and documents the huge subsidies commanded by the highway lobby, to the detriment of once-efficient forms of mass(...)
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November 1998, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
November 1998, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
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Asphalt nation : how the automobile took over America and how we can take it back
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This book examines how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape over the past 100 years together with a compelling strategy for reversing our automobile dependency. Jane Holtz Kay provides a history of the rapid spread of the automobile and documents the huge subsidies commanded by the highway lobby, to the detriment of once-efficient forms of mass transportation. Demonstrating that there are economic, political, architectural, and personal solutions to the problem, she shows that radical change is entirely possible.
Asphalt nation : how the automobile took over America and how we can take it back
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This book examines how the automobile has ravaged America's cities and landscape over the past 100 years together with a compelling strategy for reversing our automobile dependency. Jane Holtz Kay provides a history of the rapid spread of the automobile and documents the huge subsidies commanded by the highway lobby, to the detriment of once-efficient forms of mass transportation. Demonstrating that there are economic, political, architectural, and personal solutions to the problem, she shows that radical change is entirely possible.
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November 1998, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
November 1998, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
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À propos de la ville contemporaine, le constat de crise s'impose. Des artistes, des philosophes, des sociologues, des historiens de l'art s'interrogent sur ce qu'est la rue, sur ce qu'elle pourrait être : élément déterminant de sociabilité de la cité, lieu de plaisir esthétique et d'imagination politique, oeuvre d'art polysensorielle. Textes de Marc(...)
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À propos de la ville contemporaine, le constat de crise s'impose. Des artistes, des philosophes, des sociologues, des historiens de l'art s'interrogent sur ce qu'est la rue, sur ce qu'elle pourrait être : élément déterminant de sociabilité de la cité, lieu de plaisir esthétique et d'imagination politique, oeuvre d'art polysensorielle. Textes de Marc(...)
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May 1998, Paris
May 1998, Paris
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L'esthétique de la rue : colloque d'Amiens
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À propos de la ville contemporaine, le constat de crise s'impose. Des artistes, des philosophes, des sociologues, des historiens de l'art s'interrogent sur ce qu'est la rue, sur ce qu'elle pourrait être : élément déterminant de sociabilité de la cité, lieu de plaisir esthétique et d'imagination politique, oeuvre d'art polysensorielle. Textes de Marc Angenot, Daniel Buren, Anne Cauquelin, Annie Honnorat et Pierre Sansot, Henri Gaudin et plusieurs autres.
L'esthétique de la rue : colloque d'Amiens
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À propos de la ville contemporaine, le constat de crise s'impose. Des artistes, des philosophes, des sociologues, des historiens de l'art s'interrogent sur ce qu'est la rue, sur ce qu'elle pourrait être : élément déterminant de sociabilité de la cité, lieu de plaisir esthétique et d'imagination politique, oeuvre d'art polysensorielle. Textes de Marc Angenot, Daniel Buren, Anne Cauquelin, Annie Honnorat et Pierre Sansot, Henri Gaudin et plusieurs autres.
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May 1998, Paris
May 1998, Paris
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Postmodern urbanism
Postmodern urbanism
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Since the 1960s, many architects and urban planners have reacted against the drab universalism and inhuman scale of modern architecture and urbanism, seeking instead to recover a sense of community and place. It is apparent to these architects and planners, as well as (...)
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Since the 1960s, many architects and urban planners have reacted against the drab universalism and inhuman scale of modern architecture and urbanism, seeking instead to recover a sense of community and place. It is apparent to these architects and planners, as well as (...)
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Postmodern urbanism
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Since the 1960s, many architects and urban planners have reacted against the drab universalism and inhuman scale of modern architecture and urbanism, seeking instead to recover a sense of community and place. It is apparent to these architects and planners, as well as segments of the general public, that something needs to be done to improve the physical landscape and the sense of desolation it arouses. Efforts to do so have been grouped under the rubric "postmodern urbanism." While this late- twentieth-century quest for meaning has elicited nostalgia for cities of the past, it has not been accompanied by a desire to relinquish technological innovations that raise the standard of living, or the pursuit of progress and modernity. "Postmodern Urbanism" examines these important and complex issues that directly affect our cities and neighborhoods.
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Since the 1960s, many architects and urban planners have reacted against the drab universalism and inhuman scale of modern architecture and urbanism, seeking instead to recover a sense of community and place. It is apparent to these architects and planners, as well as segments of the general public, that something needs to be done to improve the physical landscape and the sense of desolation it arouses. Efforts to do so have been grouped under the rubric "postmodern urbanism." While this late- twentieth-century quest for meaning has elicited nostalgia for cities of the past, it has not been accompanied by a desire to relinquish technological innovations that raise the standard of living, or the pursuit of progress and modernity. "Postmodern Urbanism" examines these important and complex issues that directly affect our cities and neighborhoods.
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February 1999, New York
February 1999, New York
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Urban Theory
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"Points + Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City" is a book of New York architect Stan Allen's writings and projects that propose new architectural strategies for the contemporary city. Organized in the form of a user's manual, it juxtaposes speculative texts outlining (...)
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"Points + Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City" is a book of New York architect Stan Allen's writings and projects that propose new architectural strategies for the contemporary city. Organized in the form of a user's manual, it juxtaposes speculative texts outlining (...)
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Points + lines : diagrams and projects for the city
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"Points + Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City" is a book of New York architect Stan Allen's writings and projects that propose new architectural strategies for the contemporary city. Organized in the form of a user's manual, it juxtaposes speculative texts outlining Allen's general principles with specific projects created by his office. The book's title refers to this interplay of practice and theory, evoking not only the points of activity and the paths of movement found in a contemporary city but also the points of speculation and lines of argument in theoretical discourse. Projects include the Cardiff Bay Opera House, Wales; the Korean-American Museum of Art, Los Angeles; the Museo del Prado, Madrid; and White Columns Gallery, New York. Each project is accompanied by explanatory text as well as numerous drawings, models, photographs, and computer renderings. K. Michael Hays contributes an introductory essay; R. E. Somol writes the postscript.
Points + lines : diagrams and projects for the city
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"Points + Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City" is a book of New York architect Stan Allen's writings and projects that propose new architectural strategies for the contemporary city. Organized in the form of a user's manual, it juxtaposes speculative texts outlining Allen's general principles with specific projects created by his office. The book's title refers to this interplay of practice and theory, evoking not only the points of activity and the paths of movement found in a contemporary city but also the points of speculation and lines of argument in theoretical discourse. Projects include the Cardiff Bay Opera House, Wales; the Korean-American Museum of Art, Los Angeles; the Museo del Prado, Madrid; and White Columns Gallery, New York. Each project is accompanied by explanatory text as well as numerous drawings, models, photographs, and computer renderings. K. Michael Hays contributes an introductory essay; R. E. Somol writes the postscript.
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January 1999, New York
January 1999, New York
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"X-Urbanism" raises questions about the form of the city by examining various configurations of urban space, analyzing them in ways that blur the traditional opposition between figure and ground. This title serves as a visual lexicon of the formal(...)
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"X-Urbanism" raises questions about the form of the city by examining various configurations of urban space, analyzing them in ways that blur the traditional opposition between figure and ground. This title serves as a visual lexicon of the formal(...)
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X-urbanism : architecture and the American city
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"X-Urbanism" raises questions about the form of the city by examining various configurations of urban space, analyzing them in ways that blur the traditional opposition between figure and ground. This title serves as a visual lexicon of the formal properties of American urbanism--fabric, void, grid, wall--that reveal the hidden structure of the cities New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, New Haven, Des Moines, and Atlantic City. In the process, X-Urbanism confounds our expectations: it shows us the subtle order of chaotic Los Angeles, and the disruptions of New York's rigorous grid.
X-urbanism : architecture and the American city
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"X-Urbanism" raises questions about the form of the city by examining various configurations of urban space, analyzing them in ways that blur the traditional opposition between figure and ground. This title serves as a visual lexicon of the formal properties of American urbanism--fabric, void, grid, wall--that reveal the hidden structure of the cities New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, New Haven, Des Moines, and Atlantic City. In the process, X-Urbanism confounds our expectations: it shows us the subtle order of chaotic Los Angeles, and the disruptions of New York's rigorous grid.
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February 1999, New York
February 1999, New York
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