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Skycar city : a pre-emptive history / edited by Winy Maas and Grace La ; with Ryan O'Connor [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Barcelona ; New York : Actar, 2007Description: 237 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9788496540583
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 711 SKY 022669
Contents:
Foreword / Robert Greenstreet -- Skycar city / Winy Maas -- Urban change -- From car to skycar -- Catalog: the skycar collection -- The making of skycar city : Program : The 5M city ; Programmatic volume estimates ; Program arrangement -- Pathways : Application ; Proximity ; Pathway configuration ; Origin of nodes and their formation ; Origin of polyps and their formation -- Parking : Parking structure development ; Parking typologies: prong, skip-stop ; Hanging rack, Rolodex ; Honeycomb, scallop ; Passage, theater ; Skyquarium, multi-modal, stadium -- City typologies : Neighborhood location ; Type 1: Tower city ; Type 2. Swiss cheese city ; Type 3: Coral city ; Type 4: Garden city -- From car(city) to skycar(city) -- Case: Tianjin, China -- On boids and beauty / Grace La
Review: "Welcome to skycar city. A city with "streets" at any level, or perhaps empty of streets as we know them. In this new type of metropolis, traffic lights are replaced with a car's on-board navigational system, with parking garages in any location, with a revolutionized address system, the repercussions are endless."--Jacket
List(s) this item appears in: New Collection - March 2025
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 711 SKY 022669 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 022669

"A compilation of the design work produced by the inaugural Marcus Prize Studio held at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning."--Page 4 of cover

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Robert Greenstreet -- Skycar city / Winy Maas -- Urban change -- From car to skycar -- Catalog: the skycar collection -- The making of skycar city : Program : The 5M city ; Programmatic volume estimates ; Program arrangement -- Pathways : Application ; Proximity ; Pathway configuration ; Origin of nodes and their formation ; Origin of polyps and their formation -- Parking : Parking structure development ; Parking typologies: prong, skip-stop ; Hanging rack, Rolodex ; Honeycomb, scallop ; Passage, theater ; Skyquarium, multi-modal, stadium -- City typologies : Neighborhood location ; Type 1: Tower city ; Type 2. Swiss cheese city ; Type 3: Coral city ; Type 4: Garden city -- From car(city) to skycar(city) -- Case: Tianjin, China -- On boids and beauty / Grace La

"Welcome to skycar city. A city with "streets" at any level, or perhaps empty of streets as we know them. In this new type of metropolis, traffic lights are replaced with a car's on-board navigational system, with parking garages in any location, with a revolutionized address system, the repercussions are endless."--Jacket

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