Global city blues
Publication details: Washington Island Press 2006Description: xv,253,ipISBN:- 9781597260855
- 307.76 SOL
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | CEPT Library | Faculty of Planning | 307.76 SOL | Available | 015047 |
CONTENTS
Introduction xi
PART 1 NEARNESS 2
Measure the Night with Bells 5
Peaches 15
Alice 21
The Monster 25
PART 2 TIMES 28
Eichlers 31
Three Eras 37
The Dawn of Nonhistory 47
The Moderns 55
Turning Twenty 59
Deliverance at the White Table 61
Panic 65
Erasure 71
PART 3 SITE VERSUS ZEIT 76
Colin Rowe 81
Black Plans 87
Style 101
Why the City Is Not a Work of Art 107
Another Truth 115
PART 4 URBANISM 120
At Home 123
The Twelfth Map 131
Surviving Success 145
Out of Town 151
Gemeindebauen 161
PART 5 IN ASIA 168
Dorothy Lamour on a Flying Pigeon 171
The Diagram 173
The Prosperity Bomb 181
Nearness for the Rich: The Case of Adrian Zecha 187
PART 6 CYBERTIME 190
Good Technology, Bad Tec nnology 193
New Words 197
The Interview 201
PART 7 SIGNS OF LIFE 206
CNU 209
HOPE VI 215
Monuments 221
Piano 231
Epilogue 241
Bibliography 245
Index 247
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