CONTENTS Notes on contributors ix Foreword xv Robert Fishman Preface xxi Douglas Kelbaugh and Kit Krankel McCullough Acknowledgments xxv I URBAN PROCESS 1 Introduction - Kit Krankel McCullough 3 Observations The virtues of cities - Alex Krieger 6 Working cities: Density, risk, spontaneity - J. Max Bond, Jr. 12 Meaningful urban design: Teleological/catalytic/relevant - Aseem Inam 14 Mathematics of the ideal roadtrip - Christopher Monson 24 City walking: Laying claim to Manhattan - Ben Jacks 34 Preservation, re-use, and sustainability Green Manhattan - David Owen 45 Stewardship of the built environment: The emerging synergies from sustainability and historic preservation - Robert A. Young 57 DROSS; Re-genesis of diverse matter - Lydia Kallipoliti 61 The shared global ideology of the big and the green - David Gissen 69 Community Levittown retrofitted: An urbanism beyond the property line - Teddy Cruz 75 The mnemonic city: Duality, invisibility, and memory in American urbanism - Craig Evan Barton80 Mapping East Los Angeles: Aesthetics and cultural politics in an other L.A. - Jose Gdmez 87 Celebrating the city - Alan J. Plattus 96 Skid Row, Los Angeles - Camilo Jose Vergara 98 II URBAN FORM 103 Introduction: Further thoughts on the three urbanisms - Douglas Kelbaugh 105 Everyday urbanism, landscape urbanism, and infrastructure Everyday urban design: Towards default urbanism and/or urbanism by design? - John Kaliski 115 Without end: Mats, holes, and the promise of landscape urbanism - Karen M'Closkey 120 Boston's New Urban Ring: An antidote to urban fragmentation - George Thrush 127 Infrastructure for the new social compact - William R. Morrish and Catherine R. Brown138 New urbanism Whatever happened to modernity? - Daniel Solomon 155 The town of Seaside: Designed in 1978-1983 by Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. - Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk 168 The impact of ideology on American town planning - Tony Schuman and Elliott Sclar 176 New Urbanism as a counter-project to post-industrialism - Ellen Dunham-Jones 185 Integrating urbanisms: Growing places between New Urbanism and Post-Urbanism - Carl Giometti 194 Post urbanism Rem Koolhaas's writing on cities: Poetic perception and gnomic fantasy - William S. Saunders 203 Bigness in context: Some regressive tendencies in Rem Koolhaas' urban theory - Jorge Otero-Pailos 220 Habraken and Koolhaas: Two Dutchmen flying over Bijlmermeer - June P. Williamson 229 Heterotopias and Urban Design - David Grabame Shane 237 III URBAN SOCIETY 245 Introduction - Douglas Kelbaugh 247 The public realm Big Brother is charging you - Michael Sorkin 250 Communitas and the American public realm - Spiro Kostof 254 Contesting the public realm: Struggles over public space in Los Angeles - Margaret Crawford 271 Action space - Richard Scherr 281 The inscription of public and civic realms in the contemporary city - Michael E. Gamble 291 Globalism and local identity Zone - Keller Easterling 297 Dis-assembling the urban: The variable interactions of spatial form and content - Saskia Sassen 303 Tropical Lewis Mumford: The first critical regionalist urban planner - Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis 313 The luxury of languor - Michael A. McClure and Ursula Emery McClure 324 Technology Technoscience and environmental culture: A provisional critique - Kenneth Frampton 333 Technology, place, and the nonmodern thesis - Steven A. Moore 345 Immanent domain: Pervasive computing and the public realm - Dana Cuff 360 City of dreams: Virtual space/public space - Eugenia Victoria Ellis372 Index 383