The Exploding Metropolis

The Exploding Metropolis

The Exploding Metropolis

$60

$60

Last copy

"A book for people who like cities and a critique of the plans of people who don't." Republication of the 1958 collection of essays on urban decline and suburban sprawl, with a new forward by Sam Bass Warner, Jr.

The Editors of FORTUNE/William Whyte

Doubleday 1958

First Edition

Hardback 193 11 × 8 inches

ISBN: LC 58-11503 Condition: Very Good

Filed in: Architecture; Urbanism

Rare

A "New Century" For City And Public Art - Faret Tachikawa Art Project

A "New Century" For City And Public Art - Faret Tachikawa Art Project

A Moratorium on New Construction

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A Philosophy of Walking

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All City Writers: An Oral History in Times of Change

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Architecture on Common Ground: The Question of Land: Positions and Models

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Bicycle City: Riding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future

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Callous Objects: Designs against the Homeless

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Collage City

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Constructing Invisibility: Infrastructure, Militarization, and the Extreme Environment

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Design and the Building Site and Complementary Essays

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Designing the American Century: The Public Landscapes of Clarke and Rapuano, 1915–1965

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Discursive Architecture

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Everyday Architecture: A Vast Wasteland

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Fernanda Canales: My House, Your City - Privacy in a Shared World

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Fortress Power: Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control

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Housing, Micropolitics, and Pedagogies - Designing and Practicing Collectivity

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