The Exploding Metropolis
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At a moment when American cities were straining under the pressures of rapid postwar growth, suburban flight, and social fragmentation, The Exploding Metropolis issued a clarion call that reverberates with startling relevance to this day. Assembled by the editors of Fortune magazine — among them the legendary urban thinker William H. Whyte — this landmark collection of essays mounts a passionate and rigorously argued defence of the American city, dissecting the forces of unchecked sprawl, misguided urban renewal, and the slow strangulation of civic life that threatened to render the metropolis uninhabitable and soulless. What distinguishes this work is its rare combination of journalistic urgency and intellectual depth; each contributor brings a sharp, diagnostic eye to the urban crisis without surrendering to despair. The prose is direct, empirical, and galvanising, presenting city streets not as problems to be managed but as living systems to be understood and cherished. A precursor to Jane Jacobs' seminal The Death and Life of Great American Cities, this volume laid the intellectual groundwork for a generation of urban reformers — and its central question, whether our cities can resist the assault on urbanism, remains thrillingly unanswered.
Author: The Editors Of Fortune
Format: Paperback
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At a moment when American cities were straining under the pressures of rapid postwar growth, suburban flight, and social fragmentation, The Exploding Metropolis issued a clarion call that reverberates with startling relevance to this day. Assembled by the editors of Fortune magazine — among them the legendary urban thinker William H. Whyte — this landmark collection of essays mounts a passionate and rigorously argued defence of the American city, dissecting the forces of unchecked sprawl, misguided urban renewal, and the slow strangulation of civic life that threatened to render the metropolis uninhabitable and soulless. What distinguishes this work is its rare combination of journalistic urgency and intellectual depth; each contributor brings a sharp, diagnostic eye to the urban crisis without surrendering to despair. The prose is direct, empirical, and galvanising, presenting city streets not as problems to be managed but as living systems to be understood and cherished. A precursor to Jane Jacobs' seminal The Death and Life of Great American Cities, this volume laid the intellectual groundwork for a generation of urban reformers — and its central question, whether our cities can resist the assault on urbanism, remains thrillingly unanswered.