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Global city blues / Daniel Solomon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Solomon, Daniel, 1939-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning.
- Urbanization.
- Architecture and society.
- Modernism (Aesthetics).
- Physical Description:
- xv, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Island Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- 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 Technology 193
- New Words 197
- The Interview 201
- Part 7 Signs of Life 206
- Cnu 209
- Hope VI 215
- Monuments 221
- Plano 231.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 245) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1559631848
- OCLC:
- 51553097
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