Collage city - Hardcover

Rowe, Colin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262180863 ISBN 13: 9780262180863

Publisher: MIT Press, 1978

Synopsis

This book is a critical reappraisal of contemporary theories of urban planning and design and of the role of the architect-planner in an urban context. The authors rejecting the grand utopian visions of "total planning" and "total design," propose instead a "collage city" which can accommodate a whole range of utopias in miniature.

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Review:

Coming upon this book in rather a skeptical state of mind, I must say I found it intriguing, enlightening, brilliant, witty, and exasperating as it pursued its thesis with a species of grammatical acrobatics that I can only call arresting. This is a book about the ideologies of modern architecture, their philosophical origins, their manifestations, and the ways in which they are flawed. It is a book about architects who had and have conceptions about the ideal city, and it tries to reorient those conceptions from the utopia of a single vision to a more multivalent view of city form.

(Donald Appleyard APA Journal)

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0262180863
• ISBN 13: 9780262180863
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 185