Collage City
$72.91
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
15 March 1984
Summary
This book is a critical reappraisal of contemporary theories of urban planning and design and of the role of the architect-planner in an urban context. The authors, rejecting the grand utopian visions of “total planning” and “total design,” propose instead a “collage city” which can accommodate a whole range of utopias in miniature.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262680424 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262680424 |
| Author: | Colin Rowe, Fred Koetter |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 15 March 1984 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 210mm x 297mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Coming upon this book in rather a skeptical state of mind, I must say I found it intriguing, enlightening, brilliant, witty, and exasperating as it pursued its thesis with a species of grammatical acrobatics that I can only call arresting. This is a book about the ideologies of modern architecture, their philosophical origins, their manifestations, and the ways in which they are flawed. It is a book about architects who had and have conceptions about the ideal city, and it tries to reorient those conceptions from the utopia of a single vision to a more multivalent view of city form.
—Donald Appleyard, APA JournalColin Rowe
Koetter was a former Dean of the Yale School of Architecture and co-founder of Koetter Kim & Associates.
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