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Collage City

Colin Rowe Fred Koetter

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English
MIT Press
15 March 1984
Series: The MIT Press
This 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.
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Imprint:   MIT Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 297mm,  Width: 210mm,  Spine: 11mm
Weight:   567g
ISBN:   9780262680424
ISBN 10:   0262680424
Series:   The MIT Press
Pages:   192
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 18
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  A / AS level ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Koetter was a former Dean of the Yale School of Architecture and co-founder of Koetter Kim & Associates.

Reviews for Collage City

Coming upon this book in rather a skeptical state of mind, I must say I found it intriguing, enlightening, brilliant, witty, and exasperating as it pursued its thesis with a species of grammatical acrobatics that I can only call arresting. This is a book about the ideologies of modern architecture, their philosophical origins, their manifestations, and the ways in which they are flawed. It is a book about architects who had and have conceptions about the ideal city, and it tries to reorient those conceptions from the utopia of a single vision to a more multivalent view of city form. -Donald Appleyard, APA Journal


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