All over the Map Writing on Buildings and Cities

Name: All over the Map Writing on Buildings and Cities
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ISBN: 9781844672202

ISBN-10: 1844672204

ISBN-13: 9781844672202

Edition: 2013

Authors: Michael Sorkin

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Robert Hughes once described Michael Sorkin as unique in America––brave, principled, highly informed and fiercely funny. All Over the Map confirms all of these superlatives as Sorkin assaults the national security city, with its architecture of manufactured fear.

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 2/12/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.20" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Michael Sorkin is principal of Michael Sorkin Studio & director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at the City College of New York.



Preface


Introduction



The Second-Greatest Generation



Herb's Content



Notes on a Tennessee Town



After the Fall



What Remains



First Response



The Center Cannot Hold



Six Months



Thinking Inside the Box



The Dimensions of Aura



The World Peace Dome



The Lotus



Security



A Brief for Reconstruction



Riff on Rem



Herbert's List



Splitsville, USA: Why the Practice and Teaching of Urban Design Is Coming Apart



Urbanism Is Politics



On SITE



Who Decides?



No Island Is an Island



Obstructed Vision



Remembering Doug Michels



The Avant-Garde in Time of War



And Then There Were Two



Density Noodle



Caveat Competitor



(S)Truth and Consequences



Entering the Building



Urban Warfare: A Tour of the Battlefield



Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll, Cars, Dolphins, and Architecture



Displacement



Crippled in the City



The Limits of Tolerance



When Good Architects Design Bad Buildings



Advice to Critics



Liberty Square



Bush in Space



Architecture and Revolution



What Can You Say About The Pritzker?



A Trip to Tijuana



Seven Chairs



A Letter to Bob



Into the Woods



Cardinal Points



My Last Philippic



Gulf States



People Who Live in Urban Glass Houses



Ten Better Places for a Football Stadium



Finding a Dramatic Home for a Political Football



The Great Mall of New York



The Bounding Mayne



Drowning in the Gulf Again



Sincerely, Jane Jacobs



Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?



Stuyvesant Town



How I Invented Asia



Everybody's a Critic!



Go Down Moses!



The Jungle Urban: Welcome to Petropolis



Trumped Again



Asian Alterity: What's the Diference?



The End(s) of Urban Design



Big Brother Is Charging You



West Side Story



An Architectural Tourist on Omotesando



Learning from the Hutong of Beijing and Lilong of Shanghai



Covering the Territory: Three Films' by Amos Gitai



Bucky and Me



Three Freedoms



The Plot against Architecture



A Letter to President Obama



A Cut through the City



Trouble in Paradise



Discipline and Punish



Eutopia Now!


Acknowledgments