{"product_id":"collage-city-isbn-9780262680424","title":"Collage City","description":"This book is a critical reappraisal of contemporary theories of urban planning and design and of the role of the architect-planner in an urban context. The authors, rejecting the grand utopian visions of \"total planning\" and \"total design,\" propose instead a \"collage city\" which can accommodate a whole range of utopias in miniature.Coming upon this book in rather a skeptical state of mind, I must say I found it intriguing, enlightening, brilliant, witty, and exasperating as it pursued its thesis with a species of grammatical acrobatics that I can only call arresting. This is a book about the ideologies of modern architecture, their philosophical origins, their manifestations, and the ways in which they are flawed. It is a book about architects who had and have conceptions about the ideal city, and it tries to reorient those conceptions from the utopia of a single vision to a more multivalent view of city form.—\u003cb\u003eDonald Appleyard\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAPA Journal\u003c\/i\u003e—Koetter was a former Dean of the Yale School of Architecture and co-founder of Koetter Kim \u0026amp; Associates.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300191817957,"sku":"NP9780262680424","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262680424.jpg?v=1767723903","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/collage-city-isbn-9780262680424","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}