Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City

by Anne Mikoleit, Moritz Pürckhauer, Moritz Purckhauer

Book Overview

A primer in urban literacy that teaches us in words and pictures what to notice if we want to understand the city.

Cities speak, and this little book helps us understand their language. Considering the urban landscape not from the abstract perspective of an urban planner but from the viewpoint of an attentive observer, Urban Code offers 100 "lessons"--maxims, observations, and bite-size truths, followed by short essays--that teach us how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262016419
• ISBN13: 9780262016414
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 111 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.8" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher