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The Temporary City (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R1,701
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The Temporary City (Paperback, New): Peter Bishop, Lesley Williams

The Temporary City (Paperback, New)

Peter Bishop, Lesley Williams

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Most of the professional training, thinking and strategies of architects, urban designers and planners, are strictly three-dimensional. In reality of course the city is four dimensional, and one needs to acknowledge the influence of time in planning and design strategies. Similarly, there has been relatively little analysis of the importance of interim, short-term or meanwhile activities in urban areas. In an era of increasing pressure on scarce resources, we cannot wait for long-term solutions to vacancy or dereliction. Instead, we need to view temporary uses as increasingly legitimate and important in their own right. They can be a powerful tool through which we can drip-feed initiatives for incremental change as and when we have the resources while being guided by a loose-fit vision.

Peter Bishop and Lesley Williams explore the growing interest among practitioners at the cutting edge of architecture, urban design and regeneration, in temporary, interim, pop-up or meanwhile uses for land and buildings in our urban areas. They explore the origins and the social, economic and technological drivers behind this phenomenon, and its place within modern planning theory and practice. The Temporary City challenges our preoccupation with long-term strategies and masterplans and questions our ability to achieve these in the face of increasing resource constraints and political and economic uncertainty. The book includes sixty-eight diverse case studies from Europe and North America which illustrate the range of temporary use opportunities and the benefits that these can bring.

This is essential reading for all those struggling to address the current problems of urban renewal in an era of great change. It offers a prism through which to view the city as a rich mosaic of time-limited, but inspiring urban interventions."

General

Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: 2012
First published: 2012
Authors: Peter Bishop • Lesley Williams
Dimensions: 276 x 219 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-67056-2
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > City & town planning - architectural aspects
LSN: 0-415-67056-X
Barcode: 9780415670562

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