In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and "Slate
"architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he
knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in
the acclaimed bestsellers "Home "and "A Clearing in the Distance."
In "Makeshift Metropolis," Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of
observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at
once an intellectual history and a masterful critique.
"Makeshift Metropolis "describes how current ideas about urban
planning evolved from the movements that defined the twentieth
century, such as City Beautiful, the Garden City, and the seminal
ideas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Jane Jacobs. If the twentieth
century was the age of planning, we now find ourselves in the age
of the market, Rybczynski argues, where entrepreneurial developers
are shaping the twenty-first-century city with mixed-use
developments, downtown living, heterogeneity, density, and
liveliness. He introduces readers to projects like Brooklyn Bridge
Park, the Yards in Washington, D.C., and, further afield, to the
new city of Modi'in, Israel--sites that, in this age of resource
scarcity, economic turmoil, and changing human demands, challenge
our notion of the city.
Erudite and immensely engaging, "Makeshift Metropolis "is an
affirmation of Rybczynski's role as one of our most original
thinkers on the way we live today.
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