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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11738507.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. How We Got There -- 2. First Aid -- 3. House and Home -- 4. Style, Type, and Urban Fabric -- 5. Flight from the City: Lived Space and Virtual Space -- 6. The Suburbs and the New Capitals -- 7. The Heart of the City and the Capital of a Globe -- 8. For the New Millennium?".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-267) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 283 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Seduction of place.".
- catalog identifier "0375400486".
- catalog isFormatOf "Seduction of place.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Pantheon Books ,".
- catalog relation "Seduction of place.".
- catalog subject "307.76 21".
- catalog subject "Architecture, Modern.".
- catalog subject "Architecture.".
- catalog subject "Cities and towns Growth.".
- catalog subject "Cities and towns.".
- catalog subject "City planning.".
- catalog subject "HT151 .R93 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. How We Got There -- 2. First Aid -- 3. House and Home -- 4. Style, Type, and Urban Fabric -- 5. Flight from the City: Lived Space and Virtual Space -- 6. The Suburbs and the New Capitals -- 7. The Heart of the City and the Capital of a Globe -- 8. For the New Millennium?".
- catalog title "The seduction of place : the city in the twenty-first century / Joseph Rykwert.".
- catalog type "text".