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1. Clarity. The book makes fairly complex ideas accessible to a
first-year university architectural design student or first year
graduate urban design student. These ideas just happen to be the
ones that are at the core of all design processes and are often
never explained or introduced to students. 2. Currency. The book's
content is part of a cultural shift in education that moves design
pedagogy to understanding cognitive processes connected to
shape-making rather than formal design centred on object creation
(addresses causes rather than symptoms). 3. Persistence. At the
same time, the information in the book does not have an expiration
date - this is persistence and foundational knowledge that sits at
the base of all educational instruction in formal design. 4.
Integration. The book makes no distinction between meaning and
interpretation. The same skills that humans use to understand our
environment are those that are used to design the environment. This
book introduces persistent ways that humans interpret the
environment
1. Clarity. The book makes fairly complex ideas accessible to a
first-year university architectural design student or first year
graduate urban design student. These ideas just happen to be the
ones that are at the core of all design processes and are often
never explained or introduced to students. 2. Currency. The book's
content is part of a cultural shift in education that moves design
pedagogy to understanding cognitive processes connected to
shape-making rather than formal design centred on object creation
(addresses causes rather than symptoms). 3. Persistence. At the
same time, the information in the book does not have an expiration
date - this is persistence and foundational knowledge that sits at
the base of all educational instruction in formal design. 4.
Integration. The book makes no distinction between meaning and
interpretation. The same skills that humans use to understand our
environment are those that are used to design the environment. This
book introduces persistent ways that humans interpret the
environment
This book examines Warren, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, as a
shrinking city facing a crisis of economic downturn, automotive
restructuring, high unemployment, and real estate foreclosures. The
author explores Warren's attempt to develop planning strategies,
culturally-based initiatives, community design projects, and
creative partnerships in the region in order to address the
challenges of shrinkage and foreclosures at multiple scales. Global
urban development is currently characterized by varied combination
of metropolitan growth and urban core shrinkage. While much of the
shrinkage is concentrated in central cities, first suburbs are now
facing the same problem. The Warren case illustrates opportunities
for flexible policies combining rightsizing, shared maintenance,
and incremental development in struggling first suburban
communities, which are less studied and often ignored.
This book examines Warren, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, as a
shrinking city facing a crisis of economic downturn, automotive
restructuring, high unemployment, and real estate foreclosures. The
author explores Warren's attempt to develop planning strategies,
culturally-based initiatives, community design projects, and
creative partnerships in the region in order to address the
challenges of shrinkage and foreclosures at multiple scales. Global
urban development is currently characterized by varied combination
of metropolitan growth and urban core shrinkage. While much of the
shrinkage is concentrated in central cities, first suburbs are now
facing the same problem. The Warren case illustrates opportunities
for flexible policies combining rightsizing, shared maintenance,
and incremental development in struggling first suburban
communities, which are less studied and often ignored.
Sustainability and the City: Urban Poetics and Politics contributes
to third-generation discourse on sustainable development by
considering, through a humanistic lens, theories and practices of
sustainability in a wide range of urban cultures. It demonstrates
cities' inextricability from discussions on sustainability because
not only is the world urbanizing at an unprecedented rate but also
cities are primary locations of the circulation of excess capital,
socioeconomic divisions and hierarchies, political resistance,
friction between human and non-human worlds, and the confluence of
art, policy, and identity formation in placemaking. With essays by
scholars working in a variety of fields-from architecture to
literature to music to sociology-this collection maintains that any
hope for achieving urban sustainability will require taking
seriously the ways in which cities are imagined. Efforts to make
cities sustainable must fully incorporate the humanities because
critical endeavors and creative expressions that fall within the
purview of the humanities are vital to closing the conceptual gulf,
as well as the practical gap, between human and non-human
conservation. Even if the environmental humanities embrace cities,
critics must ask whether coalescing the terms 'sustainability' and
'city' may actually obstruct human action to combat climate
change-which, from some angles, seems impending, self-imposed
apocalypse. To examine the urban turn, Sustainability and the City
attends to culture. Essays in the first part of the collection
approach urban sustainability from various disciplinary vantage
points to emphasize history, ideology, pedagogy, and critical
theory. The second part of the collection analyzes urban commons on
four different continents. Finally, the collection moves from a
diverse set of interpretations of on-the-ground urban phenomena to
a compilation of readings of sustainability in different media and
genres-sound art, drama, fiction, and film-set in, or evocative of,
cities. The collection carves out a place for artists and critics
to help realize social justice in cities, which generate remarkable
power, but power that is too often and too easily used
destructively, unfairly, and wastefully despite cities' unique
capacities to inspire and sustain humanity.
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