Isbn: 9780415837699 - designing urban transformation (11 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. While designers possess the creative capabilities of shaping cities, their often-singular obsession with form and aesthetics actually reduces their effectiveness as they are at the mercy of more powerful generators of urban form. In response to this paradox, Designing Urban Transformation addresses the incredible potential of urban practice to radically change cities for the better. The book focuses on a powerful question, "What can urbanism be?" by arguing that the most significant transformations occur by fundamentally rethinking concepts, practices, and outcomes. Drawing inspiration from the philosophical movement known as Pragmatism, the book proposes three conceptual shifts for transformative urban practice: (a) beyond material objects: city as flux, (b) beyond intentions: consequences of design, and (c) beyond practice: urbanism as creative political act. Pragmatism encourages us to consider how we can make deeper and more systemic changes and how urbanism itself can be a design strategy for such transformations. To illuminate how these conceptual shifts operate in vastly different contexts through analysis of transformative urban initiatives and projects in Belo Horizonte, Boston, Cairo, Karachi, Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Paris. The book is a rare integration of theory and practice that proposes essential ways of rethinking city-design-and-building processes, while drawing critical lessons from actual examples of such processes. Designing Urban Tranformation shows unique, collaborative ways to renew urban spaces for today's challenges. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. While designers possess the creative capabilities of shaping cities, their often-singular obsession with form and aesthetics actually reduces their effectiveness as they are at the mercy of more powerful generators of urban form. In response to this paradox, Designing Urban Transformation addresses the incredible potential of urban practice to radically change cities for the better. The book focuses on a powerful question, "What can urbanism be?" by arguing that the most significant transformations occur by fundamentally rethinking concepts, practices, and outcomes. Drawing inspiration from the philosophical movement known as Pragmatism, the book proposes three conceptual shifts for transformative urban practice: (a) beyond material objects: city as flux, (b) beyond intentions: consequences of design, and (c) beyond practice: urbanism as creative political act. Pragmatism encourages us to consider how we can make deeper and more systemic changes and how urbanism itself can be a design strategy for such transformations. To illuminate how these conceptual shifts operate in vastly different contexts through analysis of transformative urban initiatives and projects in Belo Horizonte, Boston, Cairo, Karachi, Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Paris. The book is a rare integration of theory and practice that proposes essential ways of rethinking city-design-and-building processes, while drawing critical lessons from actual examples of such processes. Designing Urban Tranformation shows unique, collaborative ways to renew urban spaces for today's challenges. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …

Condición: New. This title argues for a fundamental re-conceptualization and radical shift in the way cities are designed and built. Urbanists are the only professionals trained explicitly to envision the four-dimensional future of cities, including the dimension of time. Num Pages: 264 pages, 75 colour illustrations, 60 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AMVD; RPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 189. Weight in Grams: 907. . 2013. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Condición: New. This title argues for a fundamental re-conceptualization and radical shift in the way cities are designed and built. Urbanists are the only professionals trained explicitly to envision the four-dimensional future of cities, including the dimension of time. Num Pages: 264 pages, 75 colour illustrations, 60 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AMVD; RPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 189. Weight in Grams: 907. . 2013. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . .…