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008    100716s2010    nyua     b    001 0 eng   
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020    9781416561255|qhardcover 
020    1416561250|qhardcover 
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050 00 NA9105|b.R94 2010 
082 00 711/.40973|222 
100 1  Rybczynski, Witold. 
245 10 Makeshift metropolis :|bideas about cities /|cWitold 
       Rybczynski. 
246 30 Ideas about cities 
250    First Scribner hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York :|bScribner,|c2010. 
300    xiv, 240 pages :|billustrations ;|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Remaking the city -- Three big ideas -- Home remedies -- 
       Mr. Wright and the disappearing city -- The demand-side of
       urbanism -- Arcades and malls, big boxes and lifestyle 
       centers -- On the waterfront -- The Bilbao anomaly -- 
       Putting the pieces together -- The kind of cities we want 
       -- The kind of cities we need. 
520    Rybczynski (A Clearing in the Distance), professor of 
       urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, offers a 
       glimpse of an urban future that might very well serve as a
       template for cities around the world. Just as the dense 
       and green Israeli city Modi'in mixes old and new modes of 
       urban planning, this book integrates history and 
       prediction in its survey of the development of the 
       American city. A brisk look back takes us from colonial 
       town planning through the Garden City and City Beautiful 
       initiatives of the early 20th century that defined and 
       delivered the distinctive aesthetic character to such 
       cities as New York and Chicago to the big box era. He also
       examines how contemporary urban designers and planners are
       revisiting and refreshing older urban ideas, bringing 
       gardens to a blighted Brooklyn waterfront. Rybczynski's 
       study is kept relevant by his focus on what the past can 
       teach us about creating the "cities we want" and "cities 
       we need." The prose is instructive and always engaging, 
       and the author's enthusiasm for the future of cities and 
       his enduring love of urban settings of all kinds is 
       evident. He not only writes about what people want from 
       their cities, he inspires the reader to imagine the 
       possibilities--Publisher's Weekly. 
650  0 City planning|zUnited States. 
650  0 Architecture and society|zUnited States. 
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