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Ourtopias : cities and the role of design

Title
Ourtopias : cities and the role of design / edited by Paola Poletto, Philip Beesley, Catherine Molnar.
Publication
[Cambridge, Ont.] : Riverside Architectural Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Beesley, Philip, 1956-
  • Poletto, Paola, 1969-
  • Molnar, Catherine.
  • Design Exchange (Firm)
  • Canadian Design Research Network.
Description
130 p. : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.
Summary
Collection of essays resulting from a conference presented by the Design Exchange in 2007.
Subject
  • City planning
  • urban design
Genre/Form
k – Conference – v – publications.
Note
  • Published in partnership with the Canadian Design Research Network and the Design Exchange.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction / Paola Poletto, Philip Beesley -- Ourtopia : ideal cities and the role of design in remaking urban space / Bruce Kuwabara -- Condomania! Condominium culture and cities of convenience / Mason White -- John M. Lyle and the Civic Improvement Committee : a head, a heart, and a pulse to Toronto / Glenn McArthur -- Fringe benefits : cosmopolitan dynamics of a multicultural city / Ian Chodikoff -- Beware! Traffic ahead! Destination: Utopia / Akin Sevinc -- From urban cell to global hive / Maria del C. Vera, Shai Yeshayahu -- Genius loci : the need for urban scenography / Adam Kolodziej -- Towards constructive dialogue : real-time visualization and geographic information systems / Thomas Seebohm, John Danahy -- Landscape manufacturing / James Kirkpatrick -- Ravine city and farm city / Chris Hardwicke -- Towards a design nation / Douglas MacLeod [and others] -- Afterword / Robert F. Woodbury.
ISBN
  • 9780980985603
  • 0980985609
LCCN
2009397656
OCLC
  • ocn226999174
  • 226999174
  • SCSB-9057803
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library