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- catalog abstract ""In the Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler declared suburbia "a tragic landscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside" and put himself at the heart of a fierce debate over how we will live in twenty-first century America. Now, Kunstler turns his wickedly mordant and astute eye on urban life both in America and across the world. From classical Rome to the "gigantic hairball" of contemporary Atlanta, he offers a far-reaching discourse on the history and current state of urban life." "The City in Mind tells the story of urban design and how the architectural makeup of a city directly influences its culture as well as its success. From the ingenious architectural design of Louis-Napoleon's renovation of Paris to the bloody collision of cultures that occurred when Cortes conquered the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, from the grandiose architectural schemes of Hitler and Albert Speer to the meanings behind the ludicrous spectacle of Las Vegas, Kunstler opens up a new dialogue on the development and effects of urban construction. In his investigations, he discovers American communities in the Sunbelt and Southwest alienated from each other and themselves, Northeastern cities caught between their initial civic construction and our current car-obsessed society, and a disparate Europe with its mix of pre-industrial creativity, and war-marked reminders of the twentieth century."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12285175.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""In the Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler declared suburbia "a tragic landscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside" and put himself at the heart of a fierce debate over how we will live in twenty-first century America. Now, Kunstler turns his wickedly mordant and astute eye on urban life both in America and across the world. From classical Rome to the "gigantic hairball" of contemporary Atlanta, he offers a far-reaching discourse on the history and current state of urban life." "The City in Mind tells the story of urban design and how the architectural makeup of a city directly influences its culture as well as its success. From the ingenious architectural design of Louis-Napoleon's renovation of Paris to the bloody collision of cultures that occurred when Cortes conquered the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, from the grandiose architectural schemes of Hitler and Albert Speer to the meanings behind the ludicrous spectacle of Las Vegas, Kunstler opens up a new dialogue on the development and effects of urban construction. In his investigations, he discovers American communities in the Sunbelt and Southwest alienated from each other and themselves, Northeastern cities caught between their initial civic construction and our current car-obsessed society, and a disparate Europe with its mix of pre-industrial creativity, and war-marked reminders of the twentieth century."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Paris : the achievements of Napoleon III and Georges Eugène Haussman -- Atlanta : does Edge City have a future? -- Mexico City : the end of the world and other cataclysms -- Berlin : the paradoxes of history -- Las Vegas : utopia of clowns -- Rome : in search of the classical -- Boston : overcoming history and modernism -- London : landscape as the cure for cities.".
- catalog extent "xv, 272 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "City in mind.".
- catalog identifier "0684845911".
- catalog isFormatOf "City in mind.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Free Press,".
- catalog relation "City in mind.".
- catalog subject "307.76 21".
- catalog subject "Cities and towns Case studies.".
- catalog subject "Cities and towns History.".
- catalog subject "HT119 .K86 2001".
- catalog subject "Sociology, Urban.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Paris : the achievements of Napoleon III and Georges Eugène Haussman -- Atlanta : does Edge City have a future? -- Mexico City : the end of the world and other cataclysms -- Berlin : the paradoxes of history -- Las Vegas : utopia of clowns -- Rome : in search of the classical -- Boston : overcoming history and modernism -- London : landscape as the cure for cities.".
- catalog title "The city in mind : meditations on the urban condition / James Howard Kunstler.".
- catalog type "Case studies. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".