If youth is wasted on the young, academia is all too often wasted on the academics. Free to tackle the most pressing subjects, scholars often gravitate to minutiae. But not Alexander Eisenschmidt, professor of architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago and debut author of the impressively ambitious new book The Good Metropolis.
Eisenschmidt audaciously argues that a central tension in modern city-building has gone hiding in plain sight. While architects are by nature control freaks, sweating the details of their artifacts, the space where their creations are housed—the modern metropolis—is, by nature, out of control. As Eisenschmidt writes, “architecture’s inherent predisposition towards form is often matched only by the city’s ability to avoid it.”
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