{"product_id":"xurbanism-architecture-and-the-american-city","title":"X-Urbanism: Architecture and the American City","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor most of his career  architect Mario Gandelsonas has been exploring the American city through his writings  designs  lectures  and  above all  through a series of remarkable analytical drawings. X-Urbanism raises questions about the form of the city by examining various configurations of urban space  analyzing them in ways that blur the traditional opposition between figure and ground. This title serves as a visual lexicon of the formal properties of American urbanism-fabric  void  grid  wall-that reveal the hidden structure of the cities New York  Los Angeles  Boston  Chicago  New Haven  Des Moines  and Atlantic City. In the process  X-Urbanism confounds our expectations: it shows us the subtle order of chaotic Los Angeles  and the disruptions of New Yorks rigorous grid. X-Urbanism carefully reproduces Gandelsonass drawings  which range from crisp  elegant pen-and-ink to colorful computer renderings and are as beautiful as they are instructive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984040652853,"sku":"ByrdShop_1568981511","price":83.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781568981512.jpg?v=1770819622","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/xurbanism-architecture-and-the-american-city","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}