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Global City Blues
Daniel Solomon
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Description for Global City Blues
Paperback. Presents a perceptive overview and assessment of how the power and seductiveness of modernist ideals led us astray. As an alternative, this work discusses how architecture and cities can offer a vital counterbalance to the forces of sprawl, urban disintegration, and placelessness that have so transformed the contemporary landscape. Num Pages: 272 pages, 25 photos, 1 table, bibliography, index, epilogue. BIC Classification: AMVD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 376.
In "Global City Blues", renowned architect Daniel Solomon presents a perceptive overview and insightful assessment of how the power and seductiveness of modernist ideals led us astray. As an alternative, Solomon discusses how architecture and cities can offer a vital counterbalance to the forces of sprawl, urban disintegration, and placelessness that have so transformed the contemporary landscape.
In "Global City Blues", renowned architect Daniel Solomon presents a perceptive overview and insightful assessment of how the power and seductiveness of modernist ideals led us astray. As an alternative, Solomon discusses how architecture and cities can offer a vital counterbalance to the forces of sprawl, urban disintegration, and placelessness that have so transformed the contemporary landscape.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Island Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9781597260855
SKU
V9781597260855
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Ref
99-15
About Daniel Solomon
Daniel Solomon, FAIA, is emeritus professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and was named to Architectural Digest's list of 100 foremost architects in 1991 and 1995. He lives in San Francisco, California.
Reviews for Global City Blues
"Global City Blues is one of the rare architecture books that will resonate with any thoughtful reader." - SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "If only all architects could write as engagingly as Daniel Solomon!... This is a big-picture book rather than a how-to book, but it's much better reading than most overviews of the transition from the modernist mindset to however it is that we think and see design now." - PLANNING"