Making the metropolitan landscape [ standing firm on middle ground

Argues for a progressive design practice which speaks to the complexity and diversity of American cities. Recognizing that the landscape of the American city has reflected democratic aspirations, mixed cultural heritage, and practical necessity, this book proposes various frameworks for describing a...

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Main Authors: Stauber, Jennifer (Author), Tatom, Jacqueline (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY. : Routledge , c2009
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505 0 |a 1. The spatial transformation and restructuring of American cities -- 2. It's time for comedy -- 3. Agrarian urbanism and the aerial subject -- 4. The uses of history in urban design -- 5. Urbanism by numbers : a quantitative approach to urban form -- 6. Practicing pragmatism in urban metropolitan design --7. Flexibility to resilience : directions for contemporary practice -- 8. Planning the city multiple -- 9. Citzenship and architecture : notes on the order of the American city -- 10. Integrating urban design and educational reform in the post-industrial American city : Paterson, New Jersey, as a city of learning --11. Drawing, persuasion, politics : a case study in the California delta -- 12. Urban decisions/urban designs -- 13. Beijing sketchbook -- 14. Progarams for a metropolitan urbanism 
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