In City Life, Witold Rybczynski, bestselling author of Now I Sit Me Down, looks at what we want from cities, how they have evolved, and what accounts for their unique identities.
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In commemorating Milton Keynes'25th anniversary, The Times newspaper labelledthe project 'Paradise Mislaid'.Sensing aconsensus view amongits readership that it was a project gone wrong – a readership exposed to such critics as John ...
Chicagoans will love this story for its historical undertones and setting in some of the city's most iconic sites, many now demolished or in disrepair.
Here is a new urban culture characterized by ecological frames of reference; tracking the making of contemporary city life from traditional times, through early modern, machinic and modernised stages of development.
Architect and social historian Witold Rybczynski examines how our cities have become what they are, with tree-lined small town streets around the corner from nightmarish industrial ruins.