Witold Rybczynski has written about architecture and urbanism for The New York Times, Time, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Home and the award-winning A Clearing in the Distance, as well as The Biography of a Building, The Mysteries of the Mall, and Now I Sit Me Down. The recipient of the National Building Museum's 2007 Vincent Scully Prize, he lives with his wife in Philadelphia, where he is emeritus professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.
""Makeshift Metropolis" is a deceptively slender distillation of
some of the best thinking of one of the best thinkers about cities
and urban planning. It's a terrific meditation on the past,
present, and future of cities--a critical subject now that human
life, increasingly, is urban life."--David Owen, author of "Green
Metropolis"
""Makeshift Metropolis" is a wonderful book. It shows us how cities
have been shaped by an unplanned dance between urban planners and
the demands of ordinary consumers. Rybczynski is the ideal
expositor of urban design, blessed with an abundance of inside
knowledge."--Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of
Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University
"Impressive... [Rybczynski] writes with disarming ease... Our
finest architecture critic."--Francis Morrone, "Wall Street
Journal"
"Rybczynski offers a glimpse of an urban future that might very
well serve as a template for cities around the world... Instructive
and always engaging... He not only writes about what people want
from their cities, he inspires the reader to imagine the
possibilities."--"Publishers Weekly"
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