What We Want: Landscape as a Projection of People's Desires

Idioma: inglés

Editorial: Skira, 2005

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144 pages. In our times, cityscapes are no longer dictated from above, by urban planners , architects, engineers- or even by geography - but from below, by how the peopl e live and work in groups. By simple, aggregated acts, people become spontaneous city planners: their urban design incorporates grafitti and street restaurants; makeshift homes that take their own formal pattern of development; ads and neon lights that become an integral part of the 'natural' landscape, as they have be en for decades in Las Vegas. Even civic monuments can emerge, like the hundreds of names of desaprecidos the disappeared scratched in dirt in Buenos Aires. Thes e changes are not accidents: they are What We Want. This kind of global transf ormation is not a dramatic force compared to erecting a skyscraper or residentia l housing - sometimes it is not even quite visible. But this force operates in s trikingly similar ways in cities around the world; it is a profound social force in that it changes the way we interact and how we ultimately exert control over our environment. Editorial Reviews From the Inside Flap In our times, citysca pes are no longer dictated from above, by urban planners, architects, engineers- - or even by geography -- but from below, by how the people live and work in gro ups. By simple, aggregated acts, people become spontaneous city planners: their urban design incorporates grafitti and street restaurants; makeshift homes that take their own formal pattern of development; ads and neon lights that become an integral part of the 'natural' landscape, as they have been for decades in Las Vegas. Even civic monuments can emerge, like the hundreds of names of desaprecid os the disappeared scratched in dirt in Buenos Aires. These changes are not acci.…

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Título
What We Want: Landscape as a Projection of People's Desires
Autor
Francesco Jodice
Editorial
Skira
Año de publicación
2005
Estado
Very Good
Encuadernación
Hardcover
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
8884919711
ISBN 13
9788884919717
Dimensiones
23.1cm x 2.3cm x 30.7cm
Catálogos de vendedores
Architecture

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