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Makeshift metropolis : ideas about cities / Witold Rybczynski.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NA9105 .R94 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rybczynski, Witold.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--United States.
- City planning.
- Architecture and society--United States.
- Architecture and society.
- Genre:
- Authors' inscriptions
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 240 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
- Other Title:
- Ideas about cities
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, 2010.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Greenfield fund.
- Athenaeum copy: Additional copy RBC, gift of and inscribed by the author.
- ISBN:
- 9781416561255 (hardcover)
- 9781416561293 (ebook)
- 9781416561262 (pbk.)
- OCLC:
- 535493367
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