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Designing Networks Cities: Inclusive, Hyper-Connected, Emergent, and Sustainable Urbanism
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Designing Networks Cities: Inclusive, Hyper-Connected, Emergent, and Sustainable Urbanism in Bloomington, MN
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Designing Networks Cities: Inclusive, Hyper-Connected, Emergent, and Sustainable Urbanism in Bloomington, MN
Current price: $190.00
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designing networks cities
presents a sophisticated, multi-disciplinary, and multi-dimensional approach to urban design. Emerging from years of practice, experimentation, and research by designers (landscape architects, urban planners, urban designers and architects), this approach engages with contemporary thought across a number of disciplines to re-invent the entrenched blunt instruments of the city making process.
A cry for flexible, sharp-instruments in urban design,
presents a multi-dimensional way of seeing the essential components of the city (
form
,
space-time
order
and
aesthetics
). It purposefully links traditional architectural design derivation mechanisms to urban design, in the hope that cities will not only
be pragmatic
, but also become sophisticated
iconographically
poetically
, and
syntactically
. It provides the tools to enable decision making within a multiplicity of constraints and opportunities: a
philosophy
of becoming, not being; a
science
of dynamic systems, not stasis; and an
art
of sensations, not subjectivity. And finally, and most importantly, it argues
why
it is important that cities embrace these multiple dimensions of society on a planet that is facing increasing environmental challenges: an
economics
focused on equity for all, not for some more than others; a
politics
supporting a genuine representational democracy, not one representing the overly influential; and a
culture
[including history] that embraces difference, not one that encourages division.
designing networks cities not only provides the means to identify these issues and a methodology to deal with them within a complex emerging co-existence, but also demonstrates the development of cities that embrace and respond to the complexities of life in what'some are calling the Anthropocene.
presents a sophisticated, multi-disciplinary, and multi-dimensional approach to urban design. Emerging from years of practice, experimentation, and research by designers (landscape architects, urban planners, urban designers and architects), this approach engages with contemporary thought across a number of disciplines to re-invent the entrenched blunt instruments of the city making process.
A cry for flexible, sharp-instruments in urban design,
presents a multi-dimensional way of seeing the essential components of the city (
form
,
space-time
order
and
aesthetics
). It purposefully links traditional architectural design derivation mechanisms to urban design, in the hope that cities will not only
be pragmatic
, but also become sophisticated
iconographically
poetically
, and
syntactically
. It provides the tools to enable decision making within a multiplicity of constraints and opportunities: a
philosophy
of becoming, not being; a
science
of dynamic systems, not stasis; and an
art
of sensations, not subjectivity. And finally, and most importantly, it argues
why
it is important that cities embrace these multiple dimensions of society on a planet that is facing increasing environmental challenges: an
economics
focused on equity for all, not for some more than others; a
politics
supporting a genuine representational democracy, not one representing the overly influential; and a
culture
[including history] that embraces difference, not one that encourages division.
designing networks cities not only provides the means to identify these issues and a methodology to deal with them within a complex emerging co-existence, but also demonstrates the development of cities that embrace and respond to the complexities of life in what'some are calling the Anthropocene.
designing networks cities
presents a sophisticated, multi-disciplinary, and multi-dimensional approach to urban design. Emerging from years of practice, experimentation, and research by designers (landscape architects, urban planners, urban designers and architects), this approach engages with contemporary thought across a number of disciplines to re-invent the entrenched blunt instruments of the city making process.
A cry for flexible, sharp-instruments in urban design,
presents a multi-dimensional way of seeing the essential components of the city (
form
,
space-time
order
and
aesthetics
). It purposefully links traditional architectural design derivation mechanisms to urban design, in the hope that cities will not only
be pragmatic
, but also become sophisticated
iconographically
poetically
, and
syntactically
. It provides the tools to enable decision making within a multiplicity of constraints and opportunities: a
philosophy
of becoming, not being; a
science
of dynamic systems, not stasis; and an
art
of sensations, not subjectivity. And finally, and most importantly, it argues
why
it is important that cities embrace these multiple dimensions of society on a planet that is facing increasing environmental challenges: an
economics
focused on equity for all, not for some more than others; a
politics
supporting a genuine representational democracy, not one representing the overly influential; and a
culture
[including history] that embraces difference, not one that encourages division.
designing networks cities not only provides the means to identify these issues and a methodology to deal with them within a complex emerging co-existence, but also demonstrates the development of cities that embrace and respond to the complexities of life in what'some are calling the Anthropocene.
presents a sophisticated, multi-disciplinary, and multi-dimensional approach to urban design. Emerging from years of practice, experimentation, and research by designers (landscape architects, urban planners, urban designers and architects), this approach engages with contemporary thought across a number of disciplines to re-invent the entrenched blunt instruments of the city making process.
A cry for flexible, sharp-instruments in urban design,
presents a multi-dimensional way of seeing the essential components of the city (
form
,
space-time
order
and
aesthetics
). It purposefully links traditional architectural design derivation mechanisms to urban design, in the hope that cities will not only
be pragmatic
, but also become sophisticated
iconographically
poetically
, and
syntactically
. It provides the tools to enable decision making within a multiplicity of constraints and opportunities: a
philosophy
of becoming, not being; a
science
of dynamic systems, not stasis; and an
art
of sensations, not subjectivity. And finally, and most importantly, it argues
why
it is important that cities embrace these multiple dimensions of society on a planet that is facing increasing environmental challenges: an
economics
focused on equity for all, not for some more than others; a
politics
supporting a genuine representational democracy, not one representing the overly influential; and a
culture
[including history] that embraces difference, not one that encourages division.
designing networks cities not only provides the means to identify these issues and a methodology to deal with them within a complex emerging co-existence, but also demonstrates the development of cities that embrace and respond to the complexities of life in what'some are calling the Anthropocene.
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