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by: Carl Fingerhuth  List Price: $48.95 Amazon.com's Price: $4.13 You Save: $44.82 (92%)as of 09/08/2010 02:01 EDT Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 711.401 Edition: 1 Format: Bargain Price Label: Birkhäuser Basel Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Basel Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 215 Publication Date: August 10, 2004 Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel Studio: Birkhäuser Basel Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The powerful social and cultural transformations of recent decades as expressed in the shape and form of the city need to be examined and reviewed. New methods and procedures in urban planning and a new relationship between town and land are urgently required. Learning from China calls to mind that seminal work of the post-modern, Learning from Las Vegas, and relates the principles of Taoist thought and action to the perspectives for a new urban design beyond that of today, truly post modern. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Connecting WorldsThis book went straight to my heart! Fingerhuth has masterfully connected the ancient philosophy of Taoism with the needs of today's modern urban cities. In a fresh, innovative and personal way, he takes us to a place "beyond" modernism, to a new consciousness of the intimate relationship between our urban environments and their surrounding landscapes. This book proposes a gestalt for the city of today that takes into consideration the sensitivities, complexities and idiosycrasies of the post-modern ... Read More Rating:  - Exceptional workThis book illustrates how each time and society expresses the core values of its philosophy in the way it develops cities. The many fantastic pictures visualize the concepts of the book in a thought inspiring manner. For me this book was a journey through time and around the world, accompanied by the personal experience and philosophy of the author, which felt like having a personal talk and discussion. 
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