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All over the map : writing on buildings and cities / Michael Sorkin.
Fine Arts Library HT165.5 .S65 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sorkin, Michael, 1948-2020.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--History--21st century.
- City planning.
- Architecture, Modern--21st century.
- Architecture, Modern.
- Architecture--Aesthetics.
- Architecture.
- Urbanization--History--21st century.
- Urbanization.
- History.
- Genre:
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 393 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London New York : Verso, 2011.
- Summary:
- American architecture critic Sorkin offers a smorgasbord of eclectic and impassioned essays written between 2000-2009 in response to various crises of the 21st century and their deleterious effects on architectural expression. Some of the essays are concerned with the politics of architecture in the face of critical events of George W. Bush's presidency, namely 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Hurricane Katrina. Many have been previously published in Architectural Magazine or Harvard Design magazine while most of the essays concerning 9/11 first appeared in Starting From Zero (Routlege 2003). Sorkin is the author of numerous works of architectural criticism and the former architecture critic for The Village Voice. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- The second-greatest generation
- Herb's content
- Notes on a Tennessee town
- After the fall
- What remains
- First response
- The center cannot hold
- Six months
- Thinking inside the box
- The dimensions of aura
- The world peace dome
- The lotus
- Security
- A brief for reconstruction
- Riff on Rem
- Herbert's list
- Splitsville, USA: why the practice and teaching of urban design is coming apart
- Urbanism is politics
- On SITE
- Who decides?
- No island is an island
- Obstructed vision
- Remembering Doug Michels
- The avant-garde in time of war
- And then there were two
- Density noodle
- Caveat competitor
- (S)truth and consequences
- Entering the building
- Urban warfare: a tour of the battlefield
- Sex, drugs, rock and roll, cars, dolphins, and architecture
- Displacement
- Crippled in the city
- The limits of tolerance
- When good architects design bad buildings
- Advice to critics
- Liberty square
- Bush in space
- Architecture and revolution
- What can you say about the Pritzker?
- A trip to Tijuana
- Seven chairs
- A letter to Bob
- Into the woods
- Cardinal points
- My last Philippic
- Gulf states
- People who live in urban glass houses
- Ten better places for a football stadium
- Finding a dramatic home for a political football
- The great mall of New York
- The bounding Mayne
- Sincerely, Jane Jacobs
- Are you now or have you ever been?
- Stuyvesant town
- How I invented Asia
- Everybody's a critic!
- Go down, Moses!
- The jungle urban: welcome to Petropolis
- Trumped again
- Asian alterity: what's the difference?
- The end(s) of urban design
- Big brother is charging you
- West side story
- An architectural tourist on Omotesando
- Learning from the Hutong of Beijing and Lilong of Shanghai
- Covering the territory: three films by Amos Gitai
- Bucky and me
- Three freedoms
- The plot against architecture
- A letter to President Obama
- A cut through the city
- Trouble in paradise
- Discipline and punish
- Eutopia now!
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
- ISBN:
- 1844673235
- 9781844673230
- OCLC:
- 317920099
- Publisher Number:
- 99947448163
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