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Writer and editor Bell and contributing authors trace the history of architectural response to the automobile, from modernist dogma to today's more pedestrian-friendly approach. With a focus upon the need to design better urban environments, they examine how the car and city have collided and produced pollution, gridlock. and bent fenders. They argue that cars and architecture have much to offer each other in terms of technology, aesthetics, and the need to redefine the car's social role. Illustrated with color photographs of cars, garages, and cityscapes. Oversize: 9.25x11
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The car and the city have collided. Carchitecture examines the fallout from this near-fatal impact, sifting through the debris of movements, debates, solutions and situations, searching for a new direction.Carchitecture argues that cars and architecture should rein themselves back from the brink of disaster, straighten the fender and jump-start the debate. Each has much to offer the other, not only in terms of technology and aesthetics, but also in the need to reconcile the car's social role with its pariah status. With its focus firmly on the need to design better urban environments, Carchitecture is a journey through our most familiar landscapes and the ideas which are helping to shape their future.Carchitecture traces the history of architectural response to the automobile, from modernist dogma to today's more pedestrian-friendly approach. Where once the city was shaped by the car, the urban environment is now exacting its revenge, spawning new ideas, new uses and new combinations. How will cars fit into the city of the future?
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