City Levels
City Levels

ed. by Ally Ireson and Nick Barley

Editor(s)
Ally Ireson, Nick Barley
Uitgever, jaar
London ; Basel : August I Birkhäuser, 2000
Omvang
127 p., geïllustreerd, 28 cm.
ISBN
3764363150

City Levels slices through the urban environment at a number of different levels. At street level, the mechanics of city life are familiar, but a cross-section taken fifty meters in the air shows another city: people living in high-rise blocks or working in offices; thousands of passengers travelling in helicopters and airplanes. Below ground, trains, secret tunnels, pipes and cables form unseen, intricate networks. Even rivers and animal life exists underground. The increasing value of land and the rise of the post-industrial city as a place of consumption rather than production are creating both an economic and political drive towards taller buildings and deeper underground excavations.


Persoon als onderwerp
Ole Bouman, Rem Koolhaas, Chen Zhen ...[et al.]
Locatie in de bibliotheek
Kast 17 - 2: Stad en Bewoners