The largest art : a measured manifesto for a plural urbanism / Brent D. Ryan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ryan, Brent D., 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xiv, 364 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]

Summary:

Urban design in practice is incremental, but architects imagine it as scaled-up architecture - large, ready-to-build pop-up cities. This paradox of urban design is rarely addressed; indeed, urban design as a discipline lacks a theoretical foundation. In 'The Largest Art', Brent Ryan argues that urban design encompasses more than architecture, and he provides a foundational theory of urban design beyond the architectural scale. Ryan looks at three well-known urban design projects through the lens of pluralism: a Brancusi sculptural ensemble in Romania, a Bronx housing project, and a formally and spatially diverse grouping of projects in Ljubljana, Slovenia.0.

Contents:

Unitary architecture, plural cities

Five dimensions of plural urbanism

Three pluralist projects

Three plural urbanists

Designing pluralist urbanism : urban design scenarios for three places

Principals and potentials of plural urbanism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262036672

0262036673

OCLC:

978286447