{"product_id":"global-city-blues-9781597260855","title":"Global City Blues","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \"Global City Blues\", renowned architect Daniel Solomon presents a perceptive overview and insightful assessment of how the power and seductiveness of modernist ideals led us astray. As an alternative, Solomon discusses how architecture and cities can offer a vital counterbalance to the forces of sprawl, urban disintegration, and placelessness that have so transformed the contemporary landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Global City Blues is one of the rare architecture books that will resonate with any thoughtful reader.\" - SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE \"If only all architects could write as engagingly as Daniel Solomon!... This is a big-picture book rather than a how-to book, but it's much better reading than most overviews of the transition from the modernist mindset to however it is that we think and see design now.\" - PLANNING\"","brand":"Island Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041574519127,"sku":"9781597260855","price":39.72,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781597260855.jpg?v=1750950841","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/global-city-blues-9781597260855","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}