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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Brian McGrath -- The architecture of the city / Aldo Rossi -- Collage city / Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter -- Cities within the city / Oswald Mathias Ungers -- Chicago à la carte / Alvin Boyarsky -- Life in the metropolis or The culture of congestion / Rem Koolhaas -- The making of Hong Kong / Barrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz and Thomas Kvan -- The territory of architecture / Vittorio Gregotti -- Los Angeles : the architecture of four ecologies / Reyner Banham -- Learning from Las Vegas / Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour -- An urbanism of reform / Albert Pope -- Mega urban ecologies / Sharon Haar and Victoria Marshall -- Ecology of the city : a perspective from science / Steward TA Pickett -- People as infrastructure : intersecting fragments in Johannesburg / AbdouMaliq Simone -- Bangkok : the architecture of three ecologies / Brian McGrath -- Sustainable megacity visions from São Paulo / Carlos Leite -- Frugality and urban life / May Joseph -- Design, sustainability and the global city / Christian Hubert and Ioanna Theocharopoulou -- Situationist space / Tom McDonough -- The Manhattan transcripts / Bernard Tschumi -- The fragmented metropolis / David Grahame Shane -- Designing ecological heterogeneity / ML Cadenasso -- The elementary city / Paola Viganò -- Made in Tokyo / Momoyo Kaijima, Junzo Kuroda, Yoshiharu Tsunamoro.

Urban Design Ecologies Reader gives architects and urban planners critical tools to understand urban design today. Featuring essays by leaders in the field, the book combines an historical perspective with forward-looking material on the global challenges of rapid urbanization and climate change.

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