The 100 Mile City

by Sudjic, Deyan; Sayer, Philip; Sayer, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780156423571
• ISBN10: 015642357X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-10-01
• Publisher: Mariner Books

Summary

The new architectural shape of five world cities-London, Paris, New York, Tokyo, and Los Angeles. Sudjic tells how cities grow and change through their buildings and how people live and work in them. "Written with all the pace and drive of a high-speed freeway... Powerful and convincing" (J. G. Ballard). Index; photographs by Phil Sayer.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Theory and practice	p. 5
The developer at work	p. 33
Messenger boys of change	p. 55
The uses of power	p. 75
The world of work	p. 105
The museum as landmark	p. 125
The airport as city square	p. 143
Living in the past	p. 165
A roof over their heads	p. 181
Walt Disney as a city planner	p. 201
The architecture of consumption	p. 215
Success and failure	p. 233
The freeway versus the metro	p. 247
Looking at the world through inverted commas	p. 263
The myth of community	p. 279
The image of the city	p. 295
The hundred-mile city	p. 305
Bibliography	p. 310
Index	p. 311
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