Infinite Suburbia

Name: Infinite Suburbia
Brand: Princeton Architectural Press
Price: 82.76 EUR
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Infinite Suburbia is the culmination of the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism''s year-long study of the future of suburban development. Following extensive research, an exhibition, and aconference at MIT''s Media Lab, this groundbreaking collection presents fifty-two essays by seventy-four authors from twenty different fields, including, but not limited to, design, architecture, landscape, planning, history, demographics, social justice, familial trends, policy, energy, mobility, health, environment, economics, and applied and future technologies. This exhaustive compilation is richly illustrated with a wealth of photography, aerial drone shots, drawings, plans, diagrams, charts, maps, and archival materials, making it the definitive statement on suburbia at the beginning of the twenty-first century. See more

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Format: Hardback
Weight: 2760g
Dimensions: 260 x 211mm
Publication Date: 31 Oct 2017
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781616895501

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Alan M. Berger is the Norman B. and Muriel Leventhal Professor of Advanced Urbanism at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founding co-director of the MIT Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism. He is founding Director of P-REX Lab at MIT a research lab focused on environmental problems caused by urbanization. He has published the award-winning books Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America and Reclaiming the American West as well as Scaling Infrastructure and Infrastructural Monument with PAPress. Joel Kotkin described by the New York Times as America's uber-geographer is an internationally recognized authority on global economic political and social trends. Mr. Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange California and Executive Director of the Houston-based Center for Opportunity Urbanism. He is executive editor of the widely read website www.newgeography.com and writes the weekly New Geographer column for Forbes.com. He is the author of seven previously published books including the widely praised The New Class Conflict which describes the changing dynamics of class in America.