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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 January 2010
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8490.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262288552
How to leave behind our unwieldy, gas-guzzling, carbon dioxide–emitting vehicles for cars that are green, smart, connected, and fun. This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a hundred years ago and the tail-finned sedans of fifty years ago. In the twenty-first century, cars are still made for twentieth-century purposes. They are inefficient for providing personal mobility within cities—where most of the world's people now live. In this pathbreaking book, William Mitchell and two industry experts reimagine the automobile, describing vehicles of the near future that are green, smart, connected, and fun to drive. They roll out four big ideas that will make this both feasible and timely. The fundamental reinvention of the automobile won't be easy, but it is an urgent necessity—to make urban mobility more convenient and sustainable, to make cities more livable, and to help bring the automobile industry out of crisis.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 January 2010
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8490.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262288552
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 January 2010
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8490.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262288552
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 January 2010
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8490.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262288552
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 January 2010
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8490.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262288552
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 January 2010
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8490.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262288552
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 January 2010
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8490.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262288552
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 January 2010
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8490.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262288552
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 January 2010
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8490.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262288552
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 January 2010
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8490.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262288552
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 January 2010
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8490.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262288552
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 January 2010
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8490.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262288552
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 January 2010
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8490.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262288552
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 January 2010
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8490.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262288552
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 January 2010
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8490.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262288552
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 January 2010
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8490.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262288552
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 29 January 2010
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/8490.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262288552
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 August 2008
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/7949.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262288217
Function and meaning in architecture and elsewhere, from tongue-in-cheek instructions for creating a surveillance state to reflections on the architecture of the potato chip.World's Greatest Architect: Making, Meaning, and Network Culture Artifacts (including works of architecture) play dual roles; they simultaneously perform functions and carry meaning. Columns support roofs, but while the sturdy Tuscan and Doric types traditionally signify masculinity, the slim and elegant Ionic and Corinthian kinds read as feminine. Words are often inscribed on objects. (On a door: “push” or “pull.”) Today, information is digitally encoded (dematerialized) and displayed (rematerialized) to become part of many different objects, at one moment appearing on a laptop screen and at another, perhaps, on a building facade (as in Times Square). Well-designed artifacts succeed in being both useful and meaningful. In World's Greatest Architect , William Mitchell offers a series of snapshots—short essays and analyses—that examine the systems of function and meaning currently operating in our buildings, cities, and global networks. In his writing, Mitchell makes connections that aren't necessarily obvious but are always illuminating, moving in one essay from Bush-Cheney's abuse of language to Robert Venturi's argument against rigid ideology and in favor of graceful pragmatism. He traces the evolution of Las Vegas from Sin/Sign City to family-friendly resort and residential real estate boomtown. A purchase of chips leads not only to a complementary purchase of beer but to thoughts of Eames chairs (like Pringles) and Gehry (fun to imitate with tortilla chips in refried beans). As for who the world's greatest architect might be, here's a hint: he's also the oldest.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 August 2008
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/7949.003.0021
EISBN: 9780262288217
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 01 August 2008
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/7949.003.0022
EISBN: 9780262288217