Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas about Cities

by Witold Rybczynski

Book Overview

In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home, A Clearing in the Distance, and Now I Sit Me Down. In Makeshift Metropolis, Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416561269
• ISBN13: 9781416561262
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"