Makeshift metropolis
Subtitle: ideas about cities
By: Witold Rybczynski
Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781416561255; 9781416561293; 9781416561262
Other titles: Ideas about cities
Table of contents: title: Remaking the city; title: Three big ideas; title: Home remedies; title: Mr. Wright and the disappearing city; title: The demand-side of urbanism; title: Arcades and malls, big boxes and lifestyle centers; title: On the waterfront; title: The Bilbao effect; title: Putting the pieces together; title: The kind of cities we want; title: The kind of cities we need.