Infinite Suburbia
Published on 31. October 2017
Book
Hardback
784 pages
978-1-61689-550-1 (ISBN)
Description
Infinite Suburbia is the culmination of the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism's year-long study of the future of suburban development. Following extensive research, an exhibition, and aconference at MIT's Media Lab, this groundbreaking collection presents fifty-two essays by seventy-four authors from twenty different fields, including, but not limited to, design, architecture, landscape, planning, history, demographics, social justice, familial trends, policy, energy, mobility, health, environment, economics, and applied and future technologies. This exhaustive compilation is richly illustrated with a wealth of photography, aerial drone shots, drawings, plans, diagrams, charts, maps, and archival materials, making it the definitive statement on suburbia at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
275 Halftones, color
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 260 mm
Thickness: 51 mm
Weight
2760 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61689-550-1 (9781616895501)
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Alan Berger | Joel Kotkin
Infinite Suburbia
E-Book
03/2018
Princeton Architectural Press
€58.99
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Person
Alan M. Berger is the Norman B. and Muriel Leventhal Professor of Advanced Urbanism at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and founding co-director of the MIT Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism. He is founding Director of P-REX Lab at MIT, a research lab focused on environmental problems caused by urbanization. He has published the award-winning books Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America and Reclaiming the American West, as well as Scaling Infrastructure and Infrastructural Monument, with PAPress. Joel Kotkin, described by the New York Times as "America's uber-geographer," is an internationally recognized authority on global, economic, political and social trends. Mr. Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California and Executive Director of the Houston-based Center for Opportunity Urbanism. He is executive editor of the widely read website www.newgeography.com and writes the weekly "New Geographer" column for Forbes.com. He is the author of seven previously published books, including the widely praised The New Class Conflict, which describes the changing dynamics of class in America.