System city : infrastructure and the space of flows / by Michael Weinstock.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Weinstock, Michael, author.

Series:

Profile (Chichester, England) ; 224.

Architectural design (London, England : 1971) ; v. 83 no. 4.

Architectural Design ; 04/2013

Profile ; no.224

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Philosophy.

City planning.

Cities and towns.

Architecture and society.

Sociology, Urban.

Physical Description:

136 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, 2013.

Summary:

A radical shift is taking place in the way that society is thinking about cities, a change from the machine metaphors of the 20th century to mathematical models of the processes of biological and natural systems. From this new perspective, cities are regarded not simply as spatially extended material artefacts, but as complex systems that are analogous to living organisms, exhibiting many of the same characteristics. There is an emerging view that the design of the thousands of new cities needed for an expanding world population are to be founded on intelligent and inhabited infrastructural systems or 'flow architectures' of urban metabolisms. The physical arrays of the flow architecture of the city are intimately connected to the networks of subsidiary systems that collect and distribute energy, materials and information.

Notes:

"July/August 2013."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781118361429

1118361423

OCLC:

844872200