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Now Urbanism - The Future City is Here (Hardcover) Loot Price: R5,371
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Now Urbanism - The Future City is Here (Hardcover): Jeffrey Hou, Benjamin Spencer, Thaisa Way, Ken Yocom

Now Urbanism - The Future City is Here (Hardcover)

Jeffrey Hou, Benjamin Spencer, Thaisa Way, Ken Yocom

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After more than a century of heroic urban visions, urban dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment towers, and slums. The contemporary cities as we know are more often the embodiment of unexpected outcomes and unintended consequences rather than visionary planning.

As an alternative approach for rethinking and remaking today s cities and regions, this book explores the intersections of critical inquiry and immediate, substantive actions. The essays inside recognize the rich complexities of the present city not as barriers or obstacles but as grounds for uncovering opportunity and unleashing potential. Now Urbanism asserts that the future city is already here. It views city making as grounded in the imperfect, messy, yet rich reality of the existing city and the everyday purposeful agency of its dwellers.

Through a framework of "situating, grounding, performing, distributing, instigating, " and" enduring," these essays written by" "a multidisciplinary group of practitioners and scholars illustrate specificity, context, agency, and networks of actors and actions in the re-making of the contemporary city."

General

Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: November 2014
First published: 2015
Editors: Jeffrey Hou • Benjamin Spencer • Thaisa Way • Ken Yocom
Dimensions: 246 x 174 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-71785-4
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > City & town planning - architectural aspects
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities
Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General
LSN: 0-415-71785-X
Barcode: 9780415717854

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