{"product_id":"makeshift-metropolis-ideas-about-cities-9781416561262","title":"Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas about Cities","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and \u003ci\u003eSlate \u003c\/i\u003earchitecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers \u003ci\u003eHome, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Clearing in the Distance\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNow I Sit Me Down\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e In \u003ci\u003eMakeshift Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e, Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once an intellectual history and a masterful critique. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eMakeshift Metropolis \u003c\/i\u003edescribes how current ideas about urban planning evolved from the movements that defined the twentieth century, such as City Beautiful, the Garden City, and the seminal ideas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Jane Jacobs. If the twentieth century was the age of planning, we now find ourselves in the age of the market, Rybczynski argues, where entrepreneurial developers are shaping the twenty-first-century city with mixed-use developments, downtown living, heterogeneity, density, and liveliness. He introduces readers to projects like Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Yards in Washington, D.C., and, further afield, to the new city of Modi'in, Israel--sites that, in this age of resource scarcity, economic turmoil, and changing human demands, challenge our notion of the city. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Erudite and immensely engaging, \u003ci\u003eMakeshift Metropolis \u003c\/i\u003eis an affirmation of Rybczynski's role as one of our most original thinkers on the way we live today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRybczynski, Witold:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Witold Rybczynski has written about architecture and urbanism for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book \u003ci\u003eHome\u003c\/i\u003e and the award-winning \u003ci\u003eA Clearing in the Distance\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ehe Biography of a Building\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ehe Mysteries of the Mall\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNow I Sit Me Down\u003c\/i\u003e. The recipient of the National Building Museum's 2007 Vincent Scully Prize, he lives with his wife in Philadelphia, where he is emeritus professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50849869889810,"sku":"9781416561262","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dd58253b-f2e6-4bfc-9a41-4c5d93d4a295.jpg?v=1737403036","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/makeshift-metropolis-ideas-about-cities-9781416561262","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}