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The city after the automobile : an architect's vision

Title
The city after the automobile : an architect's vision / Moshe Safdie with Wendy Kohn.
Author
Safdie, Moshe, 1938-
Publication
New York : BasicBooks, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors
Kohn, Wendy.
Description
xii, 187 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
Summary
  • In the aftermath of the automobile, with struggling downtowns, spreading suburbs, and blooming private gated communities, are traditional cities becoming obsolete? In The City After the Automobile, internationally acclaimed architect Moshe Safdie passionately comes to the city's defense. Arguing that vital cities are fundamental to civilized society and culture, Safdie and his colleague Wendy Kohn describe how we can rescue cities from their current threat of demise.
  • Today we face a choice: suburban lives of total dependence on our cars or increasingly unworkable urban lifestyles of endless traffic jams, eroding pedestrian street life, and mounting parking problems.
  • Unlike those who want to turn back the clock to pre-industrial enclaves or those who propose science-fiction-like "cyber cities," Safdie believes we can solve our present dilemmas, preserve the best of our urban history, and create future cities of strong public life, cultural richness, and physical beauty.
  • In vivid prose, The City After the Automobile paints a revolutionary vision of the future, one that integrates innovative architecture, technology, and policy to lead us toward richer and more humanistic places to work and live.
Subjects
Note
  • "A New republic book."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-179) and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. The Ailing City -- Ch. 2. The Evolving City -- Ch. 3. The End of the City -- Ch. 4. The Making of Public Space -- Ch. 5. Working in the City -- Ch. 6. Living in the City -- Ch. 7. Confronting Mega-Scale -- Ch. 8. Planning the Region -- Ch. 9. Traveling the Region -- Ch. 10. The Utility Car -- Ch. 11. The City After the Automobile -- Epilogue: Urbana.
ISBN
0465098363
OCLC
ocm36980763
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries