{"product_id":"close-up-how-to-read-the-american-city-paperback","title":"Close-Up: How to Read the American City - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGrady Clay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Grady Clay looks hard at the landscape, finding out who built what and why, noticing who participates in a city's success and who gets left in a 'sink, ' or depressed (often literally) area. Clay doesn't stay in the city; he looks at industrial towns, truck stops, suburbs--nearly anywhere people live or work. His style is witty and readable, and the book is crammed with illustrations that clarify his points. If I had to pick up one book to guide my observations of the American scene, this would be it.\"--Sonia Simone, \u003ci\u003eWhole Earth Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The emphasis on the informal aspects of city-shaping--topographical, historical, economic and social--does much to counteract the formalist approach to American urban design. \u003ci\u003eClose-Up\u003c\/i\u003e...should be required reading for anyone wishing to understand Americans and their cities.\"--Roger Cunliffe, \u003ci\u003eArchitectural Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eClose-Up\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative and stimulating book.\"--Thomas J. Schlereth, \u003ci\u003eWinterthur Portfolio\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Within this coherent string of essays, the urban dweller or observer, as well as the student, will find refreshing strategies for viewing the environmental 'situations' interacting to form a landscape.\"--\u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Clay's \u003ci\u003eClose-Up\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in 1973, is still a key book for looking at the \u003ci\u003ereal\u003c\/i\u003e American city. Too many urban books and guidebooks concentrate on the \u003ci\u003egood\u003c\/i\u003e parts of the city....Clay looks at all parts of the city, the suburbs, and the places between cities, and develops new terms to describe parts of the built environment--\u003ci\u003efronts, strips, beats, stacks, sinks, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eturf\u003c\/i\u003e. No one who wants to understand American cities or to describe them, should fail to know this book. The illustrations are of special interest to the guidebook writer.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Urban Guidenotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book I offer assertions, short cuts, mental games, and other tools; I propose ways to grapple with everyday, visible, accessible evidence of the so-called urban revolutions of our time. My examples are chosen from everyday events and familiar objects, the happenings and places of ordinary life, from the street rather than from the laboratory. All these can and should be tested, criticized, improved upon or modified. I hope this effort will encourage others to look at urban change in more organized ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 9.46 x 6.65 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 1980\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457103118589,"sku":"9780226109459","price":66.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/SmQAM3s6bo9780226109459.webp?v=1777234237","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/close-up-how-to-read-the-american-city-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}