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Adhocism : the case for improvisation

Title: Adhocism : the case for improvisation / Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver ; with a new foreword by Charles Jencks, and a new afterword by Nathan Silver.
Author: Jencks, Charles.
Publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2013]

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Additional Authors

Silver, Nathan.

Description

xxi, 232 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

Note

Originally published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part one by Charles Jencks. The spirit of adhocism -- The pluralist universe, or pluriverse -- Mechanical, natural and critical evolution -- Consumer democracy -- Towards an articulate environment -- The ad hoc revolution -- Part two by Nathan Silver -- Modes and resources of adhocism -- The adhocist sensibility -- Adhocism in the market and the city -- Appendix: miscellaneous adhockery.

Call Number

JQF 14-317

ISBN

9780262518444 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0262518449 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780262312530 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2012038949

OCLC

811427065

Author

Jencks, Charles.

Title

Adhocism : the case for improvisation / Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver ; with a new foreword by Charles Jencks, and a new afterword by Nathan Silver.

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2013]

Edition

Expanded and updated edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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http://mitpress-ebooks.mit.edu/product/adhocism

Added Author

Silver, Nathan.

Other Form:

Electronic resource 9780262312530

Research Call Number

JQF 14-317

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