Urban Code 100 Lessons for Understanding the City

Name: Urban Code 100 Lessons for Understanding the City
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ISBN: 9780262016414

ISBN-10: 0262016419

ISBN-13: 9780262016414

Edition: 2011

Authors: Anne Mikoleit, Moritz Purckhauer

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Cities speak, and this little book helps us understand their language. Considering the urban landscape not from the abstract perspective of an urban planner but from the viewpoint of an attentive observer, Urban Code offers 100 "lessons"--maxims, observations, and bite-size truths, followed by short essays--that teach us how to read the city. This is a user's guide to the city, a primer of urban literacy, at the pedestrian level. The reader (like the observant city stroller) can move from "People walk in the sunshine" (lesson 1) to "Street vendors are positioned according to the path of the sun" (lesson 2); consider possible connections between the fact that "Locals and tourists use the…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/26/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 112
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.07" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Anne Mikoleit is a research scientist and PhD candidate, teaching architecture and urban design in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich.