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Writing urbanism : a design reader / edited by Douglas Kelbaugh and Kit Krankel McCullough.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- A.C.S.A. architectural education series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--United States.
- City planning.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 397 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Other Title:
- Design reader
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
- Summary:
- Urban design continues to grow and mature as a field of study, research, and professional endeavour. This welcome collection of both invited and published essays is panoramically broad and comprehensive in its scope. Combining essays from both practice and academia, this volume includes some of the most significant texts on urban design from the last two decades, a period of transformational growth in the field and exponential growth in the metropolis.
- Writing Urbanism asks how cities can become more coherent, sustainable, authentic, and equitable, as well as aesthetically compelling and culturally meaningful. The essays probe such issues as community, social equity, design theory, technology, and globalism. How does a rapidly urbanizing and polarizing world embrace these and other issues, and how can urban design translate them into consequential and workable urban form?
- By assembling a range of voices across different institutions and generations, Writing Urbanism offers the most multifaceted portrait of urban design today. Scholars, students, and design professionals alike will find this collection to be a useful resource for understanding this increasingly important design field and for insights into the forces that shape the city itself.
- Contents:
- I. Urban process: Observations
- Preservation, re-use,, and sustainability
- Community
- II. Urban form: Everyday urbanism, landscape urbanism, and infrastructure
- New urbanism
- Post urbanism
- III. Urban society: The public realm
- Globalism and local identity
- Technology.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415774381
- 041577439X
- 0203927028
- 9780415774383
- 9780415774390
- 9780203927021
- OCLC:
- 181730626
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