Shaping the City: Studies in History, Theory and Urban Design

by El-Khoury; Rodolphe

• ISBN13: 9780415261883
• ISBN10: 0415261880
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This unique text looks at the history of the city by focusing on a series of critical issues in urban design that are exemplified by cities like Paris, London, New York, Berlin, Vienna and Chicago at particular times in the 19th and 20th centuries. Each author provides a case study highlightning partiular issues of design characteristic to that city. Eleven cities are examined and chapters on the asian city, the new urbanism, the cybercity and utopia are also included. The panel of authors, each an acknowledged specialist in their chosen city, have provided a unique critique that will attract the attention of anyone with an interest in cultural geography and urban anthropology as well as students of architecture, urban design and planning.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vi
Acknowledgments	vii
1 Introduction	1	(4)
Edward Robbins and Rodolphe El-Khoury
2 Atlanta	5	(9)
Rem Koolhaas
3 Barcelona - Rethinking Urbanistic Projects	14	(27)
Joan Busquets
4 Brasilia - The Project of Brasilia	41	(16)
Farès el-Dahdah
5 Chicago -Superblockism: Chicago's Elastic Grid	57	(20)
Sarah Whiting
6 Detroit - Motor City	77	(21)
Charles Waldheim
7 Los Angeles - Between Cognitive Mapping and Dirty Realism	98	(37)
Paulette Singley
8 Philadelphia - The Urban Design of Philadelphia: Taking the Towne for the City	135	(42)
Richard M. Sommer
9 San Francisco - San Francisco in an Age of Reaction	177	(17)
Mitchell Schwarzer
10 Asian Megacities	194	(18)
Richard Marshall
11 New Urbanism	212	(19)
Edward Robbins
12 The Imaginary Real World of Cybercities	231	(21)
M. Christine Boyer
Bibliography	252	(9)
Notes	261	(2)
Index	263