All over the map : writing on buildings and cities / Michael Sorkin.

Author/creator Sorkin, Michael
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon New York : Verso, 2011.
Descriptionxvii, 393 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects
City planning--History. --21st century.
Architecture, Modern--21st century.
Architecture--Aesthetics.
Urbanization--History. --21st century.

Contents The second-greatest generation -- Herb's content -- Notes on a Tennessee town -- After the fall -- What remains -- First response -- The center cannot hold -- Six months -- Thinking inside the box -- The dimensions of aura -- The world peace dome -- The lotus -- Security -- A brief for reconstruction -- Riff on Rem -- Herbert's list -- Splitsville, USA: why the practice and teaching of urban design is coming apart -- Urbanism is politics -- On SITE -- Who decides? -- No island is an island -- Obstructed vision -- Remembering Doug Michels -- The avant-garde in time of war -- And then there were two -- Density noodle -- Caveat competitor -- (S)truth and consequences -- Entering the building -- Urban warfare: a tour of the battlefield -- Sex, drugs, rock and roll, cars, dolphins, and architecture -- Displacement -- Crippled in the city -- The limits of tolerance -- When good architects design bad buildings -- Advice to critics -- Liberty square -- Bush in space -- Architecture and revolution -- What can you say about the Pritzker? -- A trip to Tijuana -- Seven chairs -- A letter to Bob -- Into the woods -- Cardinal points -- My last Philippic -- Gulf states -- People who live in urban glass houses -- Ten better places for a football stadium -- Finding a dramatic home for a political football -- The great mall of New York -- The bounding Mayne -- Sincerely, Jane Jacobs -- Are you now or have you ever been? -- Stuyvesant town -- How I invented Asia -- Everybody's a critic! -- Go down, Moses! -- The jungle urban: welcome to Petropolis -- Trumped again -- Asian alterity: what's the difference? -- The end(s) of urban design -- Big brother is charging you -- West side story -- An architectural tourist on Omotesando -- Learning from the Hutong of Beijing and Lilong of Shanghai -- Covering the territory: three films by Amos Gitai -- Bucky and me -- Three freedoms -- The plot against architecture -- A letter to President Obama -- A cut through the city -- Trouble in paradise -- Discipline and punish -- Eutopia now!
Local noteLittle-305131060092U
LCCN 2011282986
ISBN9781844673230 (hbk.)
ISBN1844673235 (hbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks HT165.5 .S65 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold