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Order and Disorder in Urban Space and Form - Ideas, Discourse, Praxis and Worldwide Transfer (Paperback)
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Order and Disorder in Urban Space and Form - Ideas, Discourse, Praxis and Worldwide Transfer (Paperback)
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The global application of Enlightenment-derived concepts to create
social order through urban form suggests that we believe we know
how to create a (future) ordered environment. But these notions of
order and disorder need interrogation, especially as the world
rapidly urbanises. Not only have such approaches failed to produce
more social order, but it has become clear that the imposition of
these ideas in cities of the South cuts across alternative systems
of social and cultural order and creates new disorder. Thus, if we
are serious about forms of urban order, then it is time to rethink
what we mean by order in the first place. As this provocative and
timely book shows, what we think of as urban order is partial and
restricted, and what we perceive as disorder usually masks
underlying orders of social nature. The book is intended for
architects, urban designers, planners and urban scholars but also
urban policy makers, managers and residents – to consider a
different approach to emerging urban space and form, starting from
an understanding of the cultural imaginaries and social constructs
that underpin the production of most urban fabric, and engaging
with these concepts and organisational forms to improve urban life
for the majority.
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