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Infinite Suburbia

Editat de Alan Berger, Joel Kotkin Autor Mit Norman B Leventhal Center for Advanc
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 oct 2017
Infinite Suburbia is the culmination of the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism's yearlong study of the future of suburban development. Extensive research, an exhibition, and a conference at MIT's Media Lab, this groundbreaking collection presents fifty-two essays by seventy-four authors from twenty different fields, including, but not limited to, design, architecture, landscape, planning, history, demographics, social justice, familial trends, policy, energy, mobility, health, environment, economics, and applied and future technologies. This exhaustive compilation is richly illustrated with a wealth of photography, aerial drone shots, drawings, plans, diagrams, charts, maps, and archival materials, making it the definitive statement on suburbia at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781616895501
ISBN-10: 1616895500
Pagini: 784
Dimensiuni: 270 x 268 x 57 mm
Greutate: 2.86 kg
Editura: PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS

Notă biografică

Alan M. Berger is the Norman B. and Muriel Leventhal Professor of Advanced Urbanism at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and founding co-director of the MIT Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism. He is founding Director of P-REX Lab at MIT, a research lab focused on environmental problems caused by urbanization. He has published the award-winning books Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America and Reclaiming the American West, as well as Scaling Infrastructure and Infrastructural Monument, with PAPress.

Joel Kotkin, described by the New York Times as "America's uber-geographer,” is an internationally recognized authority on global, economic, political and social trends. Mr. Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California and Executive Director of the Houston-based Center for Opportunity Urbanism. He is executive editor of the widely read website www.newgeography.com and writes the weekly "New Geographer” column for Forbes.com. He is the author of seven previously published books, including the widely praised The New Class Conflict, which describes the changing dynamics of class in America.


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MIT LCAU spent a year reviewing 500 publications from the last half-century, culminating in a Future of Suburbia exhibition, a conference at MIT's Media Lab, and this compilation of 52 essays by 74 authors from 20 different fields.