Some assembly required / / Michael Sorkin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814498803321
• Autore: Sorkin Michael <1948->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2001
• ISBN: 0-8166-9101-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 250 pages)
• Disciplina: 720/.47
• Soggetti: City planning; New towns; Sustainable architecture
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; Part I. Cities/Places; Eleven Tasks for Urban Design; Branding Space; Times Square: Status Quo Vadis; Round and Round; Cranes over TriBeCa; Big Deal; A Passage through India; Instrumental Cities; Containing Cairo; Second Nature; Millennium in Vegas; Acting Urban; Notes on Vibe; Phoenix Rising; Remembering the Future; Part II. Architects/Buildings; Animating Space; Siza the Day; The Borders of Islamic Architecture; Filming Wright; Inside the Biosphere; Come and Getty; Habitat and After; MOR Is Less; Far, Far AwAIA; Amazing Archigram; Admitting the Fold; Forms of Attachment; Airport 98; No Sex Please, We're British; How French Is It?; Upstairs, Downstairs; Part III. Misfits; Container Riff; Family Values; The Second Greatest Generation; War Is Swell; Genius Loco: A Success Story; Publication Information
• Sommario/riassunto: Michael Sorkin is widely hailed as one of the best architecture critics writing today. Iconoclastic and often controversial, he is a witty, entertaining, yet ultimately serious writer. In this new collection, Sorkin reviews the state of contemporary architecture and surveys the dramatic changes in the urban environment of the past decade. From New York to New Delhi, from Shanghai to Cairo, Sorkin offers a sweeping assessment of the impact of globalization, environmental degradation, electronic media, rapid growth, and the legacies of modernist planning.