Beyond Habitat  
Beyond Habitat  
Moshe Safdie  
With  
a new preface by the author  
Edited by John Kettle  
The M.l.T. Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England  
Copyright  
© by Moshe Safdie, 1970  
Published simultaneously in Canada by Tundra Books of Montreal  
and in the United States of America by The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.  
First MIT Press paperback edition, January 1973  
Second printing, November 1973  
ISBN  
ISBN  
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262 19083 4 (hard)  
262 69036 (paper)  
5
Library of Congress catalog card number: 76-130455  
Printed in Canada  
The production of this book took place in Montreal.  
Design was by Rolf Harder, Design Collaborative.  
Photographs appearing in this book were taken by the following:  
Jerry Spearman of Media Extensions, N.Y.C.; The Montreal Sfar-Canada Wide; Keith Oliver; Kero;  
Official Expo photographers; Moshe Safdie.  
Figure 25 courtesy of The New Yorker magazine. Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the  
Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.  
The text of this book is licensed under  
a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Interna-  
tional License: https://creativecommons.Org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/  
Text was computer set in 10/12 Helvetica by Fast Photo Typesetters of Canada and the  
printout made on  
a Fototronic Model 1200. Films for the album of photographs were  
prepared by Klaus Unterberger.  
The Enver Azizi cartoon was translated from the Spanish by William Weiss.  
The following are quoted with permission from sources stated:  
Buckminster Fuller: Nine Chains to the Moon, published by the Southern Illinois University Press  
Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha, translated by Hilda Rosner,  
© 1951 by New Directions Publishing Corp.  
Piet Hein: Grooks, published by The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts  
Desmond Morris: The Naked Ape, published by Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, England  
Lao Tzu: Te Ching, published by Penguin Books, Ltd., London, England  
D'Arcy Thompson: On Growth and Form, published by the Cambridge University Press, London, England