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Mass-customised cities / guest-edited by Tom Verebes.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Architectural design ; profile number 238
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning.
- Urbanization.
- Architecture, Modern.
- Mass production.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (141 pages) : color illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons Limited, [2015]
- Summary:
- What happens when computational design and fabrication technologies ramp up to the urban scale? Though these innovative production processes are currently now largely limited to small-scale design projects, what will happen when they are applied to the vast scale of the 21st-century world city? Could new technologies enable an important shift away from mass production to increasingly bespoke and custom-designed systems? The introduction of standardisation and mass production processes in the 20th century saw the industrial city take on a repetitious and homogeneous quality through the duplication of component parts. Today non-standard, bespoke systems hold out the promise of realising a distinctive urbanism; characterized by the differentiation of serial production and the variation of simple parts that should lead to a more complex and compelling whole. Given the current pace and rate of urbanisation in Asia, the mass customization of the city is set to have imminent and far-reaching practical consequences for the rest of the developing and developed world.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Editorial
- About the Guest-Editor
- Introduction Cities and Their Specificities: Standards, Customs and the Making of 21st-Century Urbanity
- Standards, Customs and Old Habits
- Searching for Cities with Qualities
- Globalisation, Urbanisation and the Asian Century
- The Legacies of Henry Ford and Frederick Taylor
- Navigating Histories and Theories of Industry and the City
- Industrial Paradigms: Drivers of Change
- Scaling-Up Architectural Urbanism
- Mass Customisation and Standardisation: An Urban Dialectic
- Utopia and Standardisation
- Mass Customisation and the City of Affective Alliances
- Towards a Distinctive Urbanism: An Interview with Kenneth Frampton
- CULTURE AND CITIES IN THE AGE OF GLOBALISATION
- ASIAN URBANISATION: CITIES WITHOUT HISTORY
- (NEO-)TRADITIONAL CULTURES AND VERNACULARISM
- UNIVERSAL TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGIES
- URBAN IDENTITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
- Miesian Grids and the Domain of Ink
- A Sense of Order
- Modern Generic Grids and Multifaceted Contemporary Subjectivities
- Computational Grids and New Collective Imaginations
- Standardising Heterogeneity: Public Housing and the Absent(ed) Architect
- Deconcentrating Poverty: Topological Housing Policies
- Architect: Removed
- Standardising Mass-Heterogeneity
- Decapitalising Innovation
- Simultaneous City
- Custom Finance, Social Economy
- From Mass Customisation to Design 'Democratisation'
- Meta-Designing a House
- 'Democratising' Design
- On Modelling Complexity and Urban Form
- Descriptive Models of Urban Complexity
- Generative Models of Urban Complexity
- Computational Precedents
- Towards a Simplified and Adaptive Urban Model
- Mass Customisation of Urban Form
- Samsung Raemian Housing Masterplan, Haan River, Seoul, Korea: Contemporary Architecture Practice.
- (In)formational Cities
- The Problem with Form
- Intensive Cities
- Informational Cities
- Growth Typologies, Localities and Defamiliarisation: Experiments with Artificial Urbanism in Sichuan, Guangzhou and Beijing
- Growth Typologies
- Localities
- Iterative Defamiliarisation
- Towards Artificial Urbanism
- Shanghai Lilong Tower Urbanism, Shanghai, China: Rocker-Lange Architects
- Permanence and Change: An Interview with Mark Burry
- The Repulse Bay Complex, Repulse Bay, Hong Kong: davidclovers
- Catalytic Urbanism: The Role of Customised Design Solutions in Delivering Transformational Urban Change
- The Case of Tottenham
- The Case of Tshwane
- The Case of Wanzhuang
- Global Practices and Local Transformation
- Second Development Zone, Umekita Area, Osaka, Japan: OCEAN CN Consultancy Network
- Engineering Urban Complexity: Bespoke Integrated Design
- BUILDING INFORMATION MODELLING
- RETHINKING URBAN DESIGN PROCESSES
- COMPUTATIONAL ENGINEERING
- Archi-Union Architects, City of Breeze, Shenzhen Bay, Shenzhen, China
- Technological Transitions, Industrial Innovations and the Marching Chinese Urban Revolution: An Interview with Jerry Ku and Philip Vernon of E-Grow, Shanghai
- Shifts in Industrial Paradigm to the New Specialist Workshop
- COLLABORATIVE WORKFLOWS AND OPEN-SOURCE CULTURE
- NEW MATERIALS, FABRICATION PROCESSES AND QUALITIES
- NEW ENTREPRENEURIAL MODELS TARGETING INNOVATION
- CITIES AND THEIR SPECIFICITIES
- Automated Diversity: Gramazio Kohler Research: New Morphologies of Vertical Urbanism
- Return of the Repressed
- Complexity and Variety
- New Paradigms
- Counterpoint Cities on the Edge of Chaos
- Contributors
- EULA.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 7, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 9781118915691
- 1118915690
- OCLC:
- 932064232
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