Peter Newman Podcast Part 3Mid Century Books

Part 2 of interview with author Peter NewmanPeter Newman: “The process of trying to change the paradigm of thinking that the best thing you can do for cities is to build freeways and sprawl the city further and further out, that has been under attack now for some time, particularly from grass-roots activists, who knew there was something wrong, lik…

Podcast: AN EXTRAORDINARY CHAPTER IN MODERN ARCHITECTURE HISTORY. Part 2 of interview with Alan Hess, author of _Michigan Modern: Design that Shaped America_. This book is listed for purchase at MidCenturyBooks.NetAlan Hess: “She saw what was in Michigan, she saw all of this amazing furniture design, Herman Miller, Florence Knoll, she saw the effec…

Podcast: HOW A HOUSE BECOMES AN ICON, Part 1 of interview with Elizabeth A. T. Smith, author of _Case Study Houses: The California Impetus_. This book is listed for purchase at MidCenturyBooks.NetElizabeth A. T. Smith: “The Case Study Houses are a chapter in architectural history, specific to Los Angeles, conceived in the aftermath of World War II,…

Podcast: BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE DIGITAL AGE. Part 2 of interview with Harold Davis, author of _The Photographer's Black and White Handbook_. This book is listed for purchase at MidCenturyBooks.NetHarold Davis: “We came to the end of an era, pretty much, with film photography. . . . And now we have an entirely new art form with a lot of ne…

Podcast: BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE DIGITAL AGE. Part 1 of interview with Harold Davis, author of _The Photographer's Black and White Handbook_. This book is listed for purchase at MidCenturyBooks.NetHarold Davis: “I’ve always regarded myself as a writer as well as a photographer, and writing is very important to my photography. I think peopl…

Podcast: HOW CITIES CAN SAVE OUR CLIMATE. Part 1 of interview with Peter Newman, author of _The End of Automobile Dependence_ and the revised _Resilient Cities_. These books are listed for purchase at MidCenturyBooks.NetPeter Newman: “The UN Secretary General said yesterday that ’The sustainability train has left the station,’ in reference to Donal…

Podcast: AN EXTRAORDINARY CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE. Part 1 of interview with Alan Hess, author of _Michigan Modern_. This book is listed for purchase at MidCenturyBooks.NetAlan Hess: “Really creating an architecture for the modern industrial era and the way people lived, with trains, with cars, with planes, with movies, with in…

Promo for Mid Century Books Podcast, Episode 1 featuring a preview of photographer Harold Davis, author of "The Photograper's Black and White Handbook." See more at MidCenturyBooks.NetMid Century Books