America's cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new Kind of urbanism--manipulative, dispersed, and hostile to traditional public space--is emerging both at the heart and at the edge of town in megamalls, corporate enclaves, gentrified zones, and psuedo-historic marketplaces. If anything can be described as a paradigm for these places, it's the theme park, an apparently benign environment in which all is structured to achieve maximum control and in which the idea of authentic interaction among citizens has been thoroughly purged. In this bold...
America's cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new Kind of urbanism--manipulative, dispersed, and hostile to...
The terrorist attacks of September 11 have created an unprecedented public discussion about the uses and meanings of the central area of lower Manhattan that was once the World Trade Center. While the city sifts through the debris, contrary forces shaping its future are at work. Developers jockey to control the right to rebuild ground zero. Financial firms line up for sweetheart deals while proposals for memorials are gaining in appeal. In After the World Trade Center, eminent social critics Sharon Zukin and Michael Sorkin call on New York's most acclaimed urbanists to consider the impact of...
The terrorist attacks of September 11 have created an unprecedented public discussion about the uses and meanings of the central area of lower Manhatt...
One of the best architecture critics writing today presents a new collection which previews the state of contemporary architecture and surveys the dramatic changes in the urban environment of the last decade.
One of the best architecture critics writing today presents a new collection which previews the state of contemporary architecture and surveys the dra...
Discusses the politics and culture of architecture - its powerful institutions and personalities, its various schools, and its background of hidden deals. These essays range from the skyscrapers and development scandals of New York to the architectural culture of Los Angeles.
Discusses the politics and culture of architecture - its powerful institutions and personalities, its various schools, and its background of hidden de...
Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn't in a hurry, and he never ignores his surroundings. Instead, he pays careful, close attention. And in TwentyMinutes in Manhattan, he explains what he sees, what he imagines, what he knows--giving us extraordinary access to the layers of history, the feats of engineering and artistry, and the intense social drama that take place along a simple twenty-minute walk.
Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca of...
The Architecture of Change is a collection of articles that demonstrates the power of the human spirit to transform the environments in which we live. This inspiring book profiles people who refused to accept that things couldn t change, who saw the possibility of making something better and didn t hesitate to act.
Breaking down the stereotypes surrounding socially engaged architecture, this book shows who can actually impact the lives of communities. Like Bernard Rudofsky s seminal Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture,...
The Architecture of Change is a collection of articles that demonstrates the power of the human spirit to transform the environments in wh...
