When Eli Foyle's utopian city of Columbia--built with super-advanced nanotechnology and run by an army of robot supermen--becomes a robotic police state, prodigal son Tucker Foyle returns to put his house in order... as loudly and violently as possible. An action-packed, futuristic tale written and illustrated by comics' legend, Howard Chaykin.
In this book, a renowned architect and urban planner who studies the intersection of cities and technology argues that we are in such a moment.
The great revolutionary architect's probing analysis of urban problems and their origins, and his bold solutions, which include the "Voisin" scheme for the center of Paris. Over 210 illustrations and halftones.
A revised and updated edition of this classic text from one of the most notable figures in the field of urban planning and design Offers an incisive, insightful, and unrivalled critical history of planning in theory and practice, as well as ...
A revised and updated edition of this classic text from one of the most notable figures in the field of urban planning and design Offers an incisive, insightful, and unrivalled critical history of planning in theory and practice, as well as ...
The metropolis of the future — as perceived by architect Hugh Ferriss in 1929 — was both generous and prophetic in vision. This illustrated essay on the modern city and its future features 59 illustrations.
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of City Planning in the Twentieth Century
Critically examining a range of approaches to place and space in anthropology, geography and other disciplines, the book argues for an understanding of space as inextricably material-and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic – allowing for a ...
As part of Zondervan's Ordinary Theology series, this volume offers a series of Christian reflections on some of the most basic and universal challenges of 21st century urban life.
Tomorrow City is a riveting, literary crime novel that explores the theme of reinvention in Shanghai, the city that's reinvented itself more than any other in the world over the past generation." - Publisher's summary.
This is the definitive edition, reviewing the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.