This book is a critical reappraisal of contemporary theories of urban planning and design and of the role of the architect-planner in an urban context. The authors rejecting the grand utopian visions of "total planning" and "total design," propose instead a "collage city" which can accommodate a whole range of utopias in miniature.
Fred Koetter
Koetter was a former Dean of the Yale School of Architecture and co-founder of Koetter Kim & Associates.
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Two kinds of urban form: a traditional kind of urban fabric and object-like buildings surrounded by open space, in other words, experiential and scientific. The book suggests 'collage' as a design method to intervene in the dilemma of such urban condition.