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Designing Urban Transformation (Hardcover, New)
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Designing Urban Transformation (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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