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"To understand why people love or hate their cities and why cities succeed or fail their inhabitants, Joseph Rykwert examines a broad spectrum of urban centers. Among them are Mexico City, the world's largest metropolis, sprawled around its old center; Berlin, newly reunited and furiously rebuilding; New Delhi and Islamabad, new capitals that exist alongside older towns; grandly planned cities like Chandigarh, Canberra, and Brasilia; and more modest new towns like Columbia, Maryland, and Celebration, Florida, built in an attempt to correct the problems endemic to big cities.". "Rykwert looks at image, style, and ornament; at public space and buildings; at infrastructure and street layout; at the visual qualities of contrast, strife, and energy that contribute to a city's appeal. Discussing both successes and failures, he suggests ways in which we can retain - or return to - the sense of place and individuation that determines the nourishing character and soul of the urban landscape."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Seduction of Place, Joseph Rykwert
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- Titel
- The Seduction of Place
- Untertitel
- The City in the Twenty-First Century
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Joseph Rykwert
- Verlag
- Pantheon
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2000
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 283
- ISBN10
- 0375400486
- ISBN13
- 9780375400483
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Kunst & Kultur, Historisches Thema, Geschichte, Architektur, Architektur & Städtebau, Kunst, Urbanismus, Urbanisierung
- Bewertung
- 3,45 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- "To understand why people love or hate their cities and why cities succeed or fail their inhabitants, Joseph Rykwert examines a broad spectrum of urban centers. Among them are Mexico City, the world's largest metropolis, sprawled around its old center; Berlin, newly reunited and furiously rebuilding; New Delhi and Islamabad, new capitals that exist alongside older towns; grandly planned cities like Chandigarh, Canberra, and Brasilia; and more modest new towns like Columbia, Maryland, and Celebration, Florida, built in an attempt to correct the problems endemic to big cities.". "Rykwert looks at image, style, and ornament; at public space and buildings; at infrastructure and street layout; at the visual qualities of contrast, strife, and energy that contribute to a city's appeal. Discussing both successes and failures, he suggests ways in which we can retain - or return to - the sense of place and individuation that determines the nourishing character and soul of the urban landscape."--BOOK JACKET.