Urban Code
100 Lessons for Understanding the City
$54.64
- Hardcover
112 pages
- Release Date
26 August 2011
Summary
A primer in urban literacy that teaches us in words and pictures what to notice if we want to understand the city.Cities speak, and this little book helps us understand their language. Considering the urban landscape not from the abstract perspective of an urban planner but from the viewpoint of an attentive observer, Urban Code offers 100 “lessons”-maxims, observations, and bite-size truths, followed by short essays-that teach us how to read the city. This is a user’s guide to the city, a pr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262016414 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262016419 |
| Author: | Anne Mikoleit, Moritz Pürckhauer |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 26 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 121mm x 14mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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The effect of Urban Code is a multimodal, almost helter skelter, accretive and cumulative, indirect yet structured, obvious and concurrently nuanced, simple while sophisticated, zen-like in its quiet message, yet powerfully provocative in its impact.
—Stephen E. Roulac, New York Journal of BooksAbout The Author
Anne Mikoleit
Anne Mikoleit is a research scientist and PhD candidate, teaching architecture and urban design in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich.Moritz P rckhauer is a former research scientist at ETH Zurich and is currently practicing architecture in Zurich.
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