Collage CityThis book is a critical reappraisal of contemporary theories of urban planning and design and of the role of the architect-planner in an urban context. The authors, rejecting the grand utopian visions of "total planning" and "total design," propose instead a "collage city" which can accommodate a whole range of utopias in miniature. |
Contents
Introduction | 2 |
Decline and Fall? | 9 |
After the Millennium | 32 |
Predicament of Texture | 50 |
Collision City and the Politics of Bricolage | 86 |
Collage City and the Reconquest of Time | 118 |
Notes 182 | |
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abstract Archigram architect argument become Berlin bricolage bricoleur building Burke city as museum city of modern classical utopia Claude Lévi-Strauss COLLAGE CITY COLLISION conception condition context Corbusier Corbusier's CRISIS criticism cultural Disney World envisaged evidently fantasies figure-ground figure-ground plan freedom future Futurist garden grid Hadrian's villa Hannes Meyer hedgehog Hegel human idea ideal city imagine Le Corbusier Leo von Klenze Lévi-Strauss literal logical London mind modern architecture Munich myth nature never nineteenth century noble savage notion object obliged obvious Palazzo Palazzo Borghese Paris perhaps Picasso Plan Voisin POLITICS OF BRICOLAGE Popper possible PREDICAMENT OF TEXTURE present problem proposal question radieuse rational recognize RECONQUEST reference represented Rome Saint-Simon scarcely science fiction scientific simply social space spatial street structure Superstudio surely theory total design townscape tradition twentieth century Uffizi ultimate Unité urban urbanistic utopia Versailles Villa Villa Savoye ville radieuse vision Walter Gropius York