Urban design ecologies /
edited by Brian McGrath.
- 1st ed
- Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley, c2013.
- 319 p. : ill (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.
- AD reader .
- AD reader. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The architecture of the city / Collage city / Cities within the city / Chicago à la carte / Life in the metropolis or The culture of congestion / The making of Hong Kong / The territory of architecture / Los Angeles : the architecture of four ecologies / Learning from Las Vegas / An urbanism of reform / Mega urban ecologies / Ecology of the city : a perspective from science / People as infrastructure : intersecting fragments in Johannesburg / Bangkok : the architecture of three ecologies / Sustainable megacity visions from São Paulo / Frugality and urban life / Design, sustainability and the global city / Situationist space / The Manhattan transcripts / The fragmented metropolis / Designing ecological heterogeneity / The elementary city / Made in Tokyo / Brian McGrath -- Aldo Rossi -- Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter -- Oswald Mathias Ungers -- Alvin Boyarsky -- Rem Koolhaas -- Barrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz and Thomas Kvan -- Vittorio Gregotti -- Reyner Banham -- Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour -- Albert Pope -- Sharon Haar and Victoria Marshall -- Steward TA Pickett -- AbdouMaliq Simone -- Brian McGrath -- Carlos Leite -- May Joseph -- Christian Hubert and Ioanna Theocharopoulou -- Tom McDonough -- Bernard Tschumi -- David Grahame Shane -- ML Cadenasso -- Paola Viganò -- Momoyo Kaijima, Junzo Kuroda, Yoshiharu Tsunamoro. Introduction /