Skycar City a pre-emptive history Maas, Winy 1959- Howard, Bryan. O'Connor, Ryan. La, Grace. MVRDV (Firm) University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning. text bibliography sp 2007 monographic eng
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237 p. col. ill. ; col. plans ; 21 cm. "Welcome to skycar city. A city with "streets" at any level, or perhaps empty of streets as we know them. In this new type of metropolis, traffic lights are replaced with a car's on-board navigational system, with parking garages in any location, with a revolutionized address system, the repercussions are endless."-- Contents : 18 Foreword Robert Greenstreet -- 20 Skycar City Winy Maas -- 28 Urban Change -- 42 From Car To Skycar -- 48 Catalog The Skycar Collection -- 94 The Making Of Skycar -- 94 Programs -- 96 The 5M City -- 98 Programmatic Volume Estimates -- 104 Program Arrangement -- 116 Pathways -- 118 Application -- 120 Proximity -- 138 Pathway Configuration -- 140 Origin of Node and Their Formations -- 142 Origin of Polyps and Their Formation -- 148 Parking -- 149 Parking Structures Development -- 152 Parking Typologies : Prong , Skip – Stop -- 154 Hanging – Rack , Rolodex -- 156 Honeycomb , Scallop -- 158 Passage , Theater -- 160 Skyquarium , Multi – Modal , Stadium -- 164 City Typologies -- 165 Neighborhood Location -- 166 Types 1 : Tower City -- 172 Type 2 : Swiss Cheese City -- 176 Type 3 : Coral City -- 182 Type 4 : Garden City -- 190 From Car ( City ) To Skycar ( City ) -- 204 Case : Tianjin , China -- 229 On Boids And Beauty Grace La -- MVRDV/UWM ; edited by Winy Maas and Grace La with Ryan O'Connor ... [et al.], students, Bryan Howard ... [et al.]. "... is a compilation of the design work produced by the inaugural Marcus Prize Studio held at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee School of Architecture & Urban Planning."--back cover. Includes bibliographical references. Urban transportation Visionary architecture Twenty-first century Experimental automobiles MVRDV (Firme) City traffic Express highways City planning Futurism (Architecture) Transportation buildings Research Design HE305 S59 2007 9788496540583 8496540583 pucpr 020210 20250226125938.0 eng