Now urbanism : the future city is here / edited by Jeff Hou, Benjamin Spencer, Thaisa Way, and Ken Yocom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hou, Jeffrey, 1967- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

xiv, 313 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

"After more than a century of heroic urban visions, urban dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment towers, and slums. The contemporary cities as we know are more often the embodiment of unexpected outcomes and unintended consequences rather than visionary planning. As an alternative approach for rethinking and remaking today's cities and regions, this book explores the intersections of critical inquiry and immediate, substantive actions. The essays inside recognize the rich complexities of the present city not as barriers or obstacles but as grounds for uncovering opportunity and unleashing potential. Now Urbanism asserts that the future city is already here. It views city making as grounded in the imperfect, messy, yet rich reality of the existing city and the everyday purposeful agency of its dwellers.Through a framework of situating, grounding, performing, distributing, instigating, and enduring, these essays written by a multidisciplinary group of practitioners and scholars illustrate specificity, context, agency, and networks of actors and actions in the re-making of the contemporary city"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Thick City, Now Urbanism / Jeffrey Hon Hon, Jeffrey, Benjamin Spencer Spencer, Benjamin, Thaisa Way Way, Thaisa, Ken Yocom Yocom, Ken 3

Situating 11

2 Messy Urbanism: Transformation and Transmutation of Cities under Globalization / Viren Brahmbhatt Brahmbhatt, Viren 13

3 The Environmental Contradictions of High-Tech Urbanism / Margaret O'Mara O'Mara, Margaret 26

4 From Blues to Green: The Future of New Towns Worldwide / Deni Ruggeri Ruggeri, Deni 43

Grounding 59

5 13,001 A Waste Odyssey / William Morrish Morrish, William 61

6 Contingent Ecological Urbanisms / Jon Christensen Christensen, Jon 78

7 Processcapes: Dynamic Placemaking / Judith Stilgenbauer Stilgenbauer, Judith 92

Performing 107

8 Nosotros ("We"): Two Cultures of Sustainability and the "Present City" of Las Vegas / Daniel H. Ortega Ortega, Daniel H. 109

9 Making a Farm in the Heart of a City / Osamu Nishida Nishida, Osamu, Arisa Nakamura Nakamura, Arisa 122

10 Border Urbanities: Embodied and Enacted Performances in a Transnational City / Irma Ramirez Ramirez, Irma 132

Distributing 147

11 User-Generated Urbanism and the Right to the City / John Bela Bela, John 149

12 Open Source City / Laura Kozak Kozak, Laura 165

13 The Kibera Public Space Project: Participation, Integration, and Networked Change / Chelina Odbert Odbert, Chelina, Joseph Mulligan Mulligan, Joseph 177

Instigating 193

14 Forget about Utopia / Alfredo Brillembourg Brillembourg, Alfredo, Hubert Klumpner Klumpner, Hubert 195

15 The Informal Urban Communities Initiative: Lomas de Zapallal, Lima, Peru / Benjamin Spencer Spencer, Benjamin, Susan Bolton Bolton, Susan, Jorge Alarcon Alarcon, Jorge 206

16 Shifting Landscape: reTHINKING Central and Eastern European Cities / Martin Joseph Barry Barry, Martin Joseph 224

Enduring 241

17 City Sink-Sinking Cities / Denise Hoffman Brandt Brandt, Denise Hoffman 243

[GU]Growing Urbanism: An Evolutionary Urban Ecology in Cascadia / Gundula Proksch Proksch, Gundula, Joshua Brevoort Brevoort, Joshua, Lisa Chun Chun, Lisa 259

19 Pathways of Urban Nature: Diversity in the Greening of the Twenty-First-Century City / Andrew Karvonen Karvonen, Andrew 274

Afterword 287

20 Cities and Survival / Thomas Fisher Fisher, Thomas 289.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415717868

9780415717854

041571785X

9780415717861

OCLC:

879583739

Publisher Number:

99961377542