The City After the Automobile: An Architect's Vision
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Reading Moshe Safdie's book The City After the Automobile feels at times like dipping into science fiction, particularly when considering his call for publicly owned electric cars kept in storage depots and rented to the masses. Most of the book, however, is a discussion of how to revolutionize city planning in order to reduce the necessity for cars. Safdie, an architect, uses his own plans for rebuilding portions of cities around the world as the basis for his argument supporting strong land-control laws and restriction of urban sprawl. Instead of suburban shopping malls, Safdie proposes a "linear center," a central area of concentrated development that would serve as a public arena.
By restricting land use and concentrating development in city centers instead of on the fringes, Safdie argues that reliance on gas-guzzling automobiles would become a nonissue. His truly is a revolutionary idea, especially for a culture that idealizes suburbia. Although some of the suggestions in The City After the Automobile might seem fanciful, any argument in favor of better planning, less pollution, and less waste of time, money, and resources makes a lot of sense.
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The New York Times Book Review, Kenneth T. Jackson
Part of his book is an analysis of what has gone wrong with large agglomerations of people in the 20th century and part of it is a review of his plans--some realized and some not--for rebuilding sections of places as diverse as Las Vegas, Singapore, Israel and Italy.
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The City After the Automobile: An Architect's Vision
The City After the Automobile: An Architect's Vision,Moshe Safdie,Wendy Kohn,Westview Press,0813335450,Architecture,Future Studies,Individual Architect,Planning
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