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Musings - An Urban Design Anthology (Paperback)
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Musings - An Urban Design Anthology (Paperback)
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Our century is the urban century -- a century in which the balance
between urban and rural has been tipped with more than half of the
world's population now living in cities. It is also a century
characterised by an unprecedented urbanisation that has affected
both urban form and urban life, and a century where the role of
Urban Design has never been so intensified - and so urgent. It is
our endeavour with this book to explore emergent theories and
practices relating to urban design in order to better understand
current processes of urbanisation and to intervene in our built
environments with a focus on the quality of life in them. Through a
series of articles and projects, Musings -- an urban design
anthology brings together researchers, practitioners and students
from the Urban Design Programme at the Department of Architecture,
Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University with the aim of
providing a multilayered and nuanced perspective on the discipline
of urban design -- one that explores a number of optics through
which urban design can be reflected upon, and ways in which the
contemporary built environment can be intervened with. In this way
the book navigates new frontiers in search of a better
understanding of emerging urban culture. This journey presents a
varied account of the urban design field through four chapters that
reveal core themes framing both the theoretical and practical
challenges of contemporary urbanity: Performativity, Mobility,
Transformation, and Design & Method. Illustrating the direct
relationship between research and teaching in the Urban Design
Programme, the book investigates the themes through research and
through project work of students at the Bachelor and Masters level.
It is also the aim of this book to encourage continued discussion
in the field of urban design through this - a contribution of our
musings - manifested here in the theory, practice and production
generated in the Urban Design Programme at Aalborg University.
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