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In the aftermath of the automobile, with struggling downtowns, spreading suburbs, and blooming private gated communities, are traditional cities becoming obsolete? In The City After the Automobile, internationally acclaimed architect Moshe Safdie passionately comes to the city's defense. Arguing that vital cities are fundamental to civilized society and culture, Safdie and his colleague Wendy Kohn describe how we can rescue cities from their current threat of demise.
Today we face a choice: suburban lives of total dependence on our cars or increasingly unworkable urban lifestyles of endless traffic jams, eroding pedestrian street life, and mounting parking problems.
Unlike those who want to turn back the clock to pre-industrial enclaves or those who propose science-fiction-like "cyber cities," Safdie believes we can solve our present dilemmas, preserve the best of our urban history, and create future cities of strong public life, cultural richness, and physical beauty.
In vivid prose, The City After the Automobile paints a revolutionary vision of the future, one that integrates innovative architecture, technology, and policy to lead us toward richer and more humanistic places to work and live.
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Cities and towns, City planning, Forecasting, Growth, Urban renewal, Automobiles, Social aspects, Urbanisme, Rénovation urbaine, Innovation, Kernstadt, Leitbild, Prognose, Städtebau, Automobile driving, Automobiles, history, Automobiles, social aspects, City and town life, Motor vehicle driving, Steering, Villes, Prévision, Croissance, Conduite automobile, Urban sprawl, Suburban growth, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, City Planning & Urban Development, ARCHITECTURE, Urban & Land Use Planning, Stedelijke ontwikkeling, Stadsverval, Lokaal verkeerEdition | Availability |
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City after the Automobile: An Architect's Vision
2009, Avalon Publishing
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0786751436 9780786751433
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The City After the Automobile: An Architect's Vision
September 1, 1998, Westview Press
Paperback
in English
0813335450 9780813335452
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The city after the automobile: an architect's vision
1997, BasicBooks
in English
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0465098363 9780465098361
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The city after the automobile: an architect's vision
1997, Stoddart
in English
0773729836 9780773729834
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The city after the automobile: an architect's vision.
Publish date unknown, Stoddart Publishing Co.
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-179) and index
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