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Publications7.7.2015
Retrofitting Suburbia
Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs
June Williamson, Ellen Dunham-Jones
Updated with a new Introduction by the authors and a foreword by Richard Florida, this book is a comprehensive guide book for urban designers, planners, architects, developers, environmentalists, and community leaders that illustrates how existing suburban developments can be redesigned into more urban and more sustainable places. While there has been considerable attention by practitioners
Publications7.7.2015
Tunnel Revision
The Trento Tunnels
Elisabetta Terragni
Publications7.7.2015
All Over the Map
Writing on Buildings and Cities
Michael Sorkin
Robert Hughes once described Michael Sorkin as “unique in America––brave, principled, highly informed and fiercely funny.” All Over the Map confirms all of these superlatives as Sorkin assaults “the national security city, with its architecture of manufactured fear.”
Publications7.7.2015
Twenty Minutes in Manhattan
Michael Sorkin
The walk from my apartment in Greenwich Village to my studio in Tribeca takes about twenty minutes, depending upon the route and whether I stop for a coffee and the Times. Invariably, though, it begins with a trip down the stairs. And so sets out architecture critic Michael Sorkin on his daily walk from his
Publications7.7.2015
Indefensible Space
The Architecture of the National Insecurity State
Michael Sorkin
Showing how the upswell of paranoia and growing demand for security in the post-9/11 world has paradoxically created widespread insecurity, these varied essays examine how this anxiety-laden mindset erodes spaces both architectural and personal, encroaching on all aspects of everyday life. Starting from the most literal level—barricades and barriers in front of buildings, beefed up