P.O.V. READING RESPONSE ASSIGNMENTS
Choose one book from the reading list and write a response paper required below:
Please select 2 P.O.V books and write a 23page (500750 word) response. Briefly summarize the authors point of view or argument and provide a summary of the take away principles. Then respond to these ideas based on your own experience and point of view. Do you agree or disagree and why? What are the strengths and weaknesses in the authors argument? In your response section you may choose to focus on a particular chapter or a single idea in the book rather than the entire book.
P.O.V. READING LIST
A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America, by Vishaan Chakrabarti, Metropolis Books, 2013
Design of Cities, by Edward Bacon, Penguin Press, 1967, revised 1976
Form Follows Finance: Skyscrapers and Skylines in New York and Chicago, by Carol Willis, Princeton Architectural Press, 1995
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability, by David Owen, Riverhead Hardcover, 2009
Makeshift Metropolis, by Witold Rybczynski, Scribner, 2010
The American City: What Works, What Doesn’t, by Alexander Garvin, McGrawHill Professional, 3rd edition, 2013
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs, Modern Library; 50th Anniversary edition, 2011. (Or other editions).
The Triumph of the City, by Edward Glaeser, Penguin Group, 2011
Why Buildings Stand up: The Strength of Architecture, by Mario Salvadori, Norton & Co., Reissue edition, 2002
Towards a New Architecture, Le Corbusier (multiple editions)
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