City levels / [editors, Ally Ireson and Nick Barley].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ireson, Ally.

Barley, Nick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Architecture--Human factors.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

125 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser ; London : August, [2000]

Summary:

"City Levels" slices through the urban environment at a number of different levels. At street level, the mechanics of city life are familiar, but a cross-section taken fifty meters in the air shows another city: people living in high-rise blocks or working in offices; thousands of passengers travelling in helicopters and airplanes. Below ground, trains, secret tunnels, pipes and cables form unseen, intricate networks. Even rivers and animal life exists underground. The increasing value of land and the rise of the post-industrial city as a place of consumption rather than production are creating both an economic and political drive towards taller buildings and deeper underground excavations.

ISBN:

3764363150

OCLC:

45539578