{"product_id":"makeshift-metropolis-ideas-about-cities-9781416561262","title":"Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas about Cities","description":"In 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. 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\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/02\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781416561262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Witold Rybczynski","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36649863839900,"sku":"9781416561262","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6ea376a6-cae2-4b6e-8b21-8dc07bbbc902.jpg?v=1603873901","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/makeshift-metropolis-ideas-about-cities-9781416561262","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}