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kobvindex_INTEBC6336401
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1 online resource (258 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781642830378
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Front Cover -- About Island Press -- Subscribe -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Note from the Publisher -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part I. My Kind of Town -- New Orleans is My Kind of Town -- Auckland: At Water's Edge -- I Could Learn to Love LA All Over Again -- My Favorite Street: Seven Dial, Covent Garden, London, England -- Part 2. The Cavaliers vs. the Roundheads -- Style Wars Are Irrelevant when Architecture is Reduced to Floor-Plate Cladding -- Southbank Scheme Isn't Wrong, It's Just Bland -- When Will Stirling Laureates Be Allowed to Quote from Wren? -- People in Glass Houses -- Continuity or Contrast: Take Your Pick -- Three Classicists: Classicism in an Era of Pluralism -- Part 3. Continuity and Context -- Continuity and Context in Urbanism and Architecture: The Honesty of a Living Tradition -- Linking Lincoln: Legacy, Ecology and Commerce -- Part 4. Bouquets and Brickbats -- London's Skyscraper Designers Should Aim High Like Chicago -- An Urbanist's View of the Stirling Shortlist -- Don't Students Need Proper Housing? -- The Urbanist's Stirling Prize -- Location Dictates the Success of Monument Design -- It's Time for a New Serpentine Design Brief -- Part 5. Sustainability and Tradition -- Sustainability and Tradition -- Part 6. On Christopher Alexander's Athena Award -- Part 7. Urbanism in Late-Stage Capitalism -- Post-Truth Architecture in the Age of Trump -- Finally, Some Smart Thinking About Garden Cities -- Garden Towns Need Some Garden City Thinking to Succeed -- Here's the Detail That's Missing from All the Mainfestos -- Letter to Edward Glaeser in Response to "Two Green Visions: the Prince and the Mayor," in Triump of the City -- Can Smart Urban Design Tackle the Rise of Nationalism? -- 2011 Founders Forum on the New Urbanism at Seaside, Florida -- Architects are Critical to Adapting our Cities to Climate Change
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You've Got to Hand it to Post-Moderism -- Part 8. Lean Urbanism: Making Small Possible -- A Lean Urbanism for England: Making Small Possible and Localism Real -- Pink Zones to Lighten Planning Red Tape -- Big Ideas Don't Often Produce Great Architecture -- Riding the Railroad to Revival -- Urban Recycling and Doubling-Up: How Cities Really Respond to Growth -- How to Diversify Housing Delivery with Some Help from Architects -- Seeing Empty Homes as an Asset, Not a Liability -- Part 9. About London -- London's Tall Building Bloopers -- A Towering Mess that Government has the Power--But not the Will--to Address -- Just Because the Powell andamp -- Moya Site is Available Doesn't Mean It's the Right Place for a Concert Hall -- Old Street Will Need More than Money -- We Need Real Homes, not Ivory Towers -- Bigging up Battersea: a Progress Report -- Are We Serious About Estate Regeneration? -- London's Housing Problems are Beyond the Power of Market Forces to Solve -- Part 10. From Place to Place -- A Greener, More Pleasant Vision for Travel and Transport -- Why We Can't Afford to Miss the Train -- Beauty Isn't a Dirty Word -- Highway Capital and Economic Productivity -- Testimony before US Sentate Commerce Committee in Air and Rail, 2003 -- Sprawl, The Automobile and Affording the American Dream -- Why We Need to Get Beyond the Automated Highway System -- Thinking LIke a System: Operationalizing Sustainability Through Transportation Technologies -- About the Author -- IP Board of Directors
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Print version Dittmar, Hank My Kind of City Washington, DC : Island Press,c2019 ISBN 9781642830361
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