Martin H Krieger

Urban Tomographies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Like a CAT scan of an organ, urban tomography documents metropolitan life by sampling and compiling multiple slices of a city. Using photography and audio recording, urban planning expert Martin H. Krieger scans contemporary Los Angeles to illuminate different aspects of a community, from work to worship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780812243048
• ISBN-10: 0812243048
• Artikelnr.: 33084318

Autorenporträt

Martin H. Krieger

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Cities, Streetscapes, and the Second Industrial Revolution
Chapter 3. Choreographies of Work
Chapter 4. System and Network, Node and Link
Chapter 5. Storefront Houses of Worship
Chapter 6. The Urban Aural Sensorium
Chapter 7. Finding Out Where We Are
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments