{"product_id":"timing-the-future-metropolis-foresight-knowledge-and-doubt-in-americas-postwar-urbanism-paperback","title":"Timing the Future Metropolis: Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt in America's Postwar Urbanism - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Ekman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTiming the Future Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--an intellectual history of planning, urbanism, design, and social science--explores the network of postwar institutions, formed amid specters of urban \"crisis\" and \"renewal,\" that set out to envision the future of the American city.\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Ekman focuses on one decisive node in the network: the Joint Center for Urban Studies, founded in 1959 by scholars at Harvard and MIT. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough its sprawling programs of \"organized research,\" its manifold connections to universities, foundations, publishers, and policymakers, and its years of consultation on the planning of a new city in Venezuela--Ciudad Guayana--the Joint Center became preoccupied with the question of how to conceptualize the urban future as an object of knowledge. \u003ci\u003eTiming the Future Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately compels a broader reflection on temporality in urban planning, rethinking how we might imagine cities yet to come--and the consequences of deciding not to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Ekman teaches the history and theory of landscape and urbanism in the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California. He is also a postdoctoral fellow at USC's Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life, and at the Berggruen Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455962562738,"sku":"9781501778391","price":70.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/5c7105059198630a75229ee80fd84841.webp?v=1778865146","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/timing-the-future-metropolis-foresight-knowledge-and-doubt-in-americas-postwar-urbanism-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}