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    City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World

    City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World


    $23.00 - $27.00

    • Format: Hardcover
    • 256 pages
    • Publisher: Scribner Book Company
    • Published: September 1995
    • ISBN-10: 0684813025
    • ISBN-13: 9780684813028

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    In City Life, Witold Rybczynski looks at what we want from cities, how they have evolved, and what accounts for their unique identities. In this vivid description of everything from the early colonial settlements to the advent of the skyscraper to the changes wrought by the automobile, the telephone, the airplane, and telecommuting, Rybczynski reveals how our urban spaces have been shaped by the landscapes and lifestyles of the New World. The architect and critic who changed the way we look at houses in Home now changes the way we look at the world outside our walls, in this elegant, provocative exploration of city life.
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