Research Catalog

Title

City speculations / edited by Patricia C. Phillips.

Publication

Queens, NY : Queens Museum of Art ; New York, NY : Princeton Architectural Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

Phillips, Patricia C., 1952-

Description

ix, 101 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• City Speculations examines how different methods of urban representation affect the way cities are planned, constructed, and experienced. Conceived in response to the Panorama of the City of New York - the monolithic scale model of New York City built by Robert Moses - the architects, artists, planners, and educators included in this volume employ a variety of idiosyncratic techniques to depict the city.
• From the wryly humorous to the disturbingly tragic, these diverse "speculations" offer an alternative to the unified vision presented by the Panorama.

Subjects

• City planning > New York (State) > New York
• New York (N.Y.) > Pictorial works
• Moses, Robert, 1888-1981 > Panorama of the City of New York
• Urban renewal > New York (State) > New York

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Preface / Carma C. Fauntleroy -- Introduction: Portraying the City / Patricia C. Phillips -- The Panorama of New York City: A Paradoxical View / M. Christine Boyer -- Queens Conjecture / Mojdeh Baratloo and Clifton Balch -- Soft Sell / Diller + Scofidio -- Switch / Keller Easterling -- Representation in Urban Design / Environmental Simulation Center -- The Nomad Mapping Project / Andrea Kahn -- Overlooking Tompkins Square Park: 1990-95 / Ana Marton -- Transparent Cities / Brian Mcgrath -- The Hidden City / Newark Metametrics -- Second New York / Kyong Park / William Cathcart -- New York Paleotectonic: 1964-95 / Richard Plunz -- The Water Project: Foggy Geographies / Raaum -- Visible Cities / Wellington Reiter -- Scoring the Park / Mark Robbins -- Fresh Kills: Imaging the Landfill / Mierle Laderman Ukeles -- Tracking New York's Ghettos / Camilo Jose Vergara.

ISBN

1568980779 (pbk.)

OCLC

ocm36382328

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries