| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 200 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Until now, architects have been trained to serve the elite few, as reflected in a belief in customization and the uniqueness of each project. Instead, Lerup holds, architectural educators should promote teamwork and the design of authorless objects, combined with an integration of design and practice. Before we can rethink the architectural curriculum, however, we must rethink the metropolis. And rethink the metropolis is just what Lerup does. He moves from contemplation of the form and philosophical implications of the Pantheon to a discussion of how Levittown residents seek and create community. The result is a work with profound practical implications. Unlike the many who view suburbia with paranoid dismay, Lerup takes an optimistic view of the new, open metropolis - for him not the site of unavoidable uniformity and mediocrity, but an exciting new frontier."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
Metropolis: a portfolio of images -- Tafuri's smile -- Wanderer, authority, and doublespace -- Straying gaze -- Stones at rest -- Fye in the center -- Face of power -- Doublespace -- Suburban metropolis -- Stim and dross: rethinking the metropolis -- Houston, 28th floor. at the window -- Megashape -- Intention -- Plane, the riders, and air space -- Fields -- Sprawl -- Oceanic grammar -- Entortung -- Stim and dross -- Stimulators -- Stimdross -- Sparta's revenge -- Other city -- Virgin fields -- A certain distance -- Protean field -- Radical mobility -- Voids and vapors -- Architecture reconsidered -- End of the architectural promenade: a portfolio of images -- Distraction versus concentration -- Planned assaults -- Ambiguity and action -- Metropolitan architect -- Architects' hands -- Architect's house -- Architect in the metropolis -- Vehicular behavior: a portfolio of images -- Design machines -- Mechanisms of closeness -- Household vehicles -- Toward fusion -- Simple house -- Frontier -- Middle landscape -- Frontiers -- Museum geography -- Frontier ecology -- Architecture and biota. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
City planning -- History -- 20th century.
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City planning. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
City planning -- Philosophy.
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City planning -- Philosophy. |
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Metropolitan areas.
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Metropolitan areas. |
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Suburbs.
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Suburbs. |
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
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Architecture, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lerup, Lars. After the city. Cambridge : MIT Press, 2000 0262122243 (DLC) 99056867 (OCoLC)42798058 |
| ISBN |
0585309620 (electronic book) |
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9780585309620 (electronic book) |
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