Making the Metropolitan Landscape: Standing Firm on Middle Ground

by Tatom; Jacqueline

• ISBN13: 9780415774116
• ISBN10: 041577411X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135232061
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-06-08
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

American cities, long considered the paradigm of modern urbanization, owe their particular and varied design as much to the specific circumstances of their history as to a supposed modernist concern for shaping urban futures. Often decried as generic and homogeneous, today's urban environments in fact offer a terrain rich in differentiation. By emphasizing the basis of contemporary American cities in political economy, cultural histories, and the geographical particularities of the United States, this much-needed guide is for urban dwellers, urban designers, and urban historians interested in experiencing the richness of our built environment.

Author Biography

Jacqueline Tatom was Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of Design at Washington University in St. Louis. Jennifer Stauber is a practicing architectural and urban designer in St. Louis, Missouri.

Table of Contents

Authenticity in the Middle Ground	p. xvi
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Editor's note	p. xviii
Introduction	p. xix
Towards a Metropolitan Landscape	p. 1
The spatial transformation and restructuring of American cities	p. 3
It's time for comedy	p. 19
Agrarian urbanism and the aerial subject	p. 29
The uses of history in urban design	p. 47
Urbanism by numbers: A quantitative approach to urban form	p. 57
Towards a Metropolitan Urbanism	p. 79
Practicing pragmatism in urban metropolitan design	p. 81
Flexibility to resilience: Directions for contemporary practice	p. 97
Planning the city multiple	p. 103
Citizenship and architecture: Notes on the order of the American city	p. 119
Making the Metropolitan Landscape	p. 131
Integrating urban design and educational reform in the post-industrial American city: Paterson, New Jersey, as a City of Learning	p. 133
Drawing, persuasion, politics: A case study in the California Delta	p. 153
Urban decisions/urban designs	p. 163
Beijing sketchbook	p. 173
Programs for a Metropolitan Urbanism	p. 193
Programs for a metropolitan urbanism	p. 195
Notes on contributors	p. 203
Figure credits	p. 211
Index	p. 213
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