Local code : 3,659 proposals about data, design & the nature of cities / Nicholas de Monchaux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Monchaux, Nicholas, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Environmental aspects.

City planning.

Greenways.

Vacant lands.

Physical Description:

239 pages : illustrations (many color) ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Praised in the New York Times for its "intelligent enquiry and actionable theorizing," Local Code: Real Estates is a collection of software tools, design proposals, and theoretical arguments about the future of urban infrastructure and architecture. Local Code combines drawings of over five thousand digitally designed and networked microinterventions for vacant lots in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York in the United States, as well as Venice, Italy, with theoretical essays and information graphics. The book's data-driven layout presents a complex, elegant interface to myriad possible future urban landscapes. Local Code presents a digitally driven, networked approach to urban resilience and environmental justice, and argues that we have just begun to discover the full possibilities of computing and design"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Keller Easterling

Introduction : Current location

San Francisco case study

Fake estates and reality properties

Los Angeles case study

Life attracts life

Venice case study

The map and the territory

New York case study

Conclusion : We are all made of stars.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234) and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781616893804

161689380X

OCLC:

925410808