THE CITY AFTER THE AUTOMOBILE: An Architect’s Vision
By Moshe Safdie with Wendy Kohn
(Basic Books, 1997)
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”The City and the Automobile is a breath of fresh air.” —Newsday
“Delivers an important message.” —The New York Times
“Provocative, fascinating, even visionary… read The City and the Automobile – it is an excellent reminder that vision matters in the future of the cities.” —The Vancouver Sun
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A vision of the future city from one of the world’s leading architects.
In the aftermath of the automobile, with struggling downtowns, spreading suburbs, and blooming private gated communities, are traditional cities becoming obsolete?
In The City After the Automobile, internationally acclaimed architect Moshe Safdie and his colleague Wendy Kohn passionately come to the city’s defense. Arguing that vital cities are fundamental to civilized society and culture, Safdie and Kohn describe how we can rescue cities from their current threat of demise.
Today we face a choice: suburban lives of total dependence on our cars or increasingly unworkable urban lifestyles of endless traffic jams, eroding pedestrian street life, and mounting parking problems. Unlike those who want to turn back the clock to pre-industrial enclaves or those who propose science-fiction like “cyber cities,” Safdie and Kohn believes we can solve our present dilemmas, preserve the best of our urban history, and create future cities of strong public life, cultural richness, and physical beauty.
In vivid prose, The City After the Automobile paints a revolutionary vision of the future, one that integrates innovative architecture, technology, and policy to lead us toward richer and more humanistic places to work and live.
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By Moshe Safdie with Wendy Kohn
(Basic Books, 1997)
—-
”The City and the Automobile is a breath of fresh air.” —Newsday
“Delivers an important message.” —The New York Times
“Provocative, fascinating, even visionary… read The City and the Automobile – it is an excellent reminder that vision matters in the future of the cities.” —The Vancouver Sun
—-
A vision of the future city from one of the world’s leading architects.
In the aftermath of the automobile, with struggling downtowns, spreading suburbs, and blooming private gated communities, are traditional cities becoming obsolete?
In The City After the Automobile, internationally acclaimed architect Moshe Safdie and his colleague Wendy Kohn passionately come to the city’s defense. Arguing that vital cities are fundamental to civilized society and culture, Safdie and Kohn describe how we can rescue cities from their current threat of demise.
Today we face a choice: suburban lives of total dependence on our cars or increasingly unworkable urban lifestyles of endless traffic jams, eroding pedestrian street life, and mounting parking problems. Unlike those who want to turn back the clock to pre-industrial enclaves or those who propose science-fiction like “cyber cities,” Safdie and Kohn believes we can solve our present dilemmas, preserve the best of our urban history, and create future cities of strong public life, cultural richness, and physical beauty.
In vivid prose, The City After the Automobile paints a revolutionary vision of the future, one that integrates innovative architecture, technology, and policy to lead us toward richer and more humanistic places to work and live.
Amazon
Barnes and Noble
AbeBooks