1st Edition

The City After The Automobile An Architect's Vision

By Moshe Safdie, Wendy Kohn Copyright 1997
198 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

In an age of virtual offices, urban flight, and planned gated communities, are cities becoming obsolete? In this passionate manifesto, Moshe Safdie argues that as crucibles for creative, social, and political interaction, vital cities are an organic and necessary part of human civilization. If we are to rescue them from dispersal and decay, we must first revise our definition of what constitutes a... Read more
Visions Of The City * The Ailing City * The Evolving City * The End of the City Facing Reality * The Making of Public Space * Working in the City * Living in the City * Confronting Mega-Scale Toward The Future * Planning the Region * Traveling the Region * The Utility Car * The City After the Automobile * Epilogue: Urbana

Biography

Moshe Safdie