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Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City
Anne Mikoleit
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Description for Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City
Hardcover. Num Pages: 112 pages, 30 b&w photos, 100 b&w illus. BIC Classification: AMVD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 129 x 207 x 13. Weight in Grams: 244.
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 primer of urban literacy, at the pedestrian level. The reader (like the ... Read more
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 primer of urban literacy, at the pedestrian level. The reader (like the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The MIT Press
Language
English
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262016414
SKU
V9780262016414
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99-3
About 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 Purckhauer is a former research scientist at ETH Zurich and is currently practicing architecture in Zurich.
Reviews for Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City
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 Books