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Adhocism : the case for improvisation / Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver ; with a new foreword by Charles Jencks, and a new afterword by Nathan Silver.

LIBRA NX165 .J46 2013
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Language:
English
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Physical Description:
xxi, 232 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Edition:
Expanded and updated edition.
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2013]
Contents:
  • Part one by Charles Jencks. The spirit of adhocism
  • The pluralist universe, or pluriverse
  • Mechanical, natural and critical evolution
  • Consumer democracy
  • Towards an articulate environment
  • The ad hoc revolution
  • Part two by Nathan Silver. Modes and resources of adhocism
  • The adhocist sensibility
  • Adhocism in the market and the city
  • Appendix: miscellaneous adhockery.
Notes:
  • Originally published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
  • 9780262518444
  • 0262518449
OCLC:
811427065

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