William W Braham, Jonathan A Hale (eds.): Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory (2006)

“This book contains over fifty selected essays, manifestoes, reflections and theories by architects and architectural writers from 1900 to 2004. This mapping out of a century of architectural technology reveals the discipline’s long and close attention to the experience and effects of new technologies, and provides a broad picture of the shift from the ‘age of tools’ to the ‘age of systems’.

Chronological arrangement and cross-referencing of the articles enable both a thematic and historically contextual understanding of the topic and highlight important thematic connections across time.”

Publisher Routledge, 2006
ISBN 0415346541, 9780415346542
488 pages

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Richard T. LeGates, Frederic Stout (eds.): The City Reader, 2nd ed (1996/2000)

“The second edition of The City Reader brings together the very best writing on the city. Fifty-five generous selections are included: thirty from the first edition and twenty-five entirely new ones. Each piece is introduced with a brief intellectual biography and a review of the authors writings and related literature, and an explanation of how the piece fits into the broader context of urban history and practice, competing ideological perspectives on the city, and the major current debates concerning race and gender, global restructuring, sustainable urban development, the impact of technology and postmodernism.”

Publisher Routledge, 1996
Second edition, 2000
ISBN    0415190711, 9780415190718
660 pages

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