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"...will become the first ′cult′ book in the field...a dazzling and positive interpretation..." (RUDI.net, Jan 06)
"...an excellent book..." (Architects Journal, April 2006)
"This book offers a very useful history of ideas of urban design" (Urban Design, May 2006)
“…the first serious attempt to understand contemporary cities…” (Architectural Review, August 2006)
Architectural Design, November 2005
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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it is great book! fresh and inspiring. if you like lynch and alexander you will love shane.
0 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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at first - i thought this book would give a particular insight into urbanism whatever definitions you would prefer. However somehow the book develops into something too technical and scientific in its approach in understanding urbanism that I stopped attempting to read it. Simply there arent a lot of illustrations and diagrams relating the urbanism which may aid the text.
If possible google scholar it to browse excerpts before purchasing otherwise you may find yourself in the same predicament as myself.
If possible google scholar it to browse excerpts before purchasing otherwise you may find yourself in the same predicament as myself.
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Urbanism for Thinkers and Skeptics
26 Feb 2009
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Pragmatic exploitation of cities and their dwellers may be an ineradicable disease that drives the squalor and eventual decline of urban agglommerations, but those who take on diagnosis of the seemingly incurable become saviors if successful. There have been only a handful of modern-era thinkers with the knowledge, insight and creativity on what's wrong with the design of cities and what might be done to make it better, Viollet le Duc, Lewis Mumford, Kevin Lynch among them. It is an unexpected pleasure to encounter a new deep thinker standing on these giants' shoulders in Grahame Shane's magisterial "Recombinant Urbanism: Conceptual Modeling in Architecture, Urban Design and City Theory." The volume is comprehensive on urbanism, historically and intellectually, and will amply reward the student, scholar and professional who reads it in parts or most beneficially, in whole -- more than once. Prepare to be highly educated by this book, not merely advised what to do to get or keep a job or get a project funded by public taxation. If read and comprehended by urban policy makers it will contribute to their escape from real estate development hell, or if not that, it will arm honorable officials against the weasels who want to claim cities as their own profitmaking playpens. Shane wonderfully reminds what it is like to learn from a deeply thoughtful scholar offering open wisdom compared to a city-exploiter pitching secret schemes. Still, one might imagine land developers and good buddy officials searching Shane's compendium for nuggets to use in their next snake oil presentation to suspicious citizen groups rightfully fed up with unceasing demands for bailouts.
5 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Stunning Book!
15 Jun 2006
Format:Paperback
If you want the book on urban design, one piece of work that covers it all and gives you depth, insight and outlook on this field like no other - then this is for you! A book that will become a classic in this field. Absoluetly with no competition!
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