City Life - Hardcover

CITY LIFE - Urban expectations in a New World

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Buchbeschreibung Brown cloth / red boards. Zustand: Fine copy. 1st edition. Jacket design by Calvin Chu. In this book Rybczynski looks at what we want from cities, how they have evolved and what accounts for their unique identities. In this description of everything from the early colonial settlements to the advent of the skyscrapers to the changes wrought by technology, transportation and telecommunication and how urban spaces have been shaped by the landscapes and lifestyles of the new world. With marvelous detail of such cities as Montreal, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Savannah, Boston, New Orleans and Charleston. Contents: 1). Why aren't our cities like that? 2). The measure of a town. 3). A new, uncrowded world. 4). A Frenchman in New York. 5). In the land of the dollar. 6). Civic art. 7). High hopes. 8). Country homes for city people. 9). The new downtown. 10). The best of both worlds. With notes and index. 256 pag. Size: 21cmx15cm. Artikel-Nr. 022139

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