Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life’s work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed as one of the world’s most exciting urban thinkers. Travelling from city to city, speaking to planners and politicians across the world, he uncovers questions large and small whose answers are both counterintuitive and deeply significant. Should New Orleans be rebuilt? Why can’t my nephew afford an apartment in New York? Is London the new fina...
Releasedatum: 2011-03-18 Genre:Konst och underhållning > Konst och arkitektur 59,00 kr
In 1955 Max Frisch, Lucius Burckhardt, and Markus Kutter published achtung: die Schweiz , a warning about the increasing level of sprawl throughout the Swiss landscape and a plea for a new and better controlled urbanity in the form of high-density settlements. Sixty years later, the level of alarm against the increasing levels of urban sprawl has not diminished and yet single-family houses and low-density settlements still unabatedly continue to threaten the Swiss landscape. Openly alluding to t...
Releasedatum: 2016-02-01 Genre:Konst och underhållning > Konst och arkitektur 149,00 kr