{"product_id":"timing-the-future-metropolis-peter-ekman-9781501778384","title":"Timing the Future Metropolis: Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt in America's Postwar Urbanism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTiming the Future Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--an intellectual history of planning, urbanism, design, and social science--explores the network of postwar institutions, formed amid specters of urban \"crisis\" and \"renewal,\" that set out to envision the future of the American city.\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Ekman focuses on one decisive node in the network: the Joint Center for Urban Studies, founded in 1959 by scholars at Harvard and MIT. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough its sprawling programs of \"organized research,\" its manifold connections to universities, foundations, publishers, and policymakers, and its years of consultation on the planning of a new city in Venezuela--Ciudad Guayana--the Joint Center became preoccupied with the question of how to conceptualize the urban future as an object of knowledge. \u003ci\u003eTiming the Future Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately compels a broader reflection on temporality in urban planning, rethinking how we might imagine cities yet to come--and the consequences of deciding not to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Ekman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501778382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501778384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Peter Ekman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46052169482495,"sku":"9781501778384","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_88d4f766-ecd5-43ad-9b10-c71f6cbbccc1.jpg?v=1723555546","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/timing-the-future-metropolis-peter-ekman-9781501778384","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}