Design, nature, and revolution : toward a critical ecology / Tomás Maldonado ; translated by Mario Domandi ; foreword by Larry Busbea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maldonado, Tomás, author.

Contributor:

Domandi, Mario, translator.

Standardized Title:

Speranza progettuale. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Human ecology.

Environmental policy.

Planning.

Physical Description:

xix, 139 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First University of Minnesota Press edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

Contents:

1 Environment, Nature, Alienation p. 1

2 Human Ecology and Dialectic of the Concrete p. 6

3 Rationality and Repression p. 13

4 New Utopians p. 21

5 Design, Planning, and Politics p. 27

6 Explosive Congestion p. 30

7 Discards, Residues, Dross p. 33

8 Desperate Hope p. 36

9 Reality of Mesocosmos p. 40

10 Labyrinth of Complexity p. 42

11 Deurbanization and Desocialization p. 46

12 The Idea of System p. 50

13 Revolution and Strategy of Innovation p. 54

14 Spontaneous Action and Power p. 57

15 Las Vegas and the Semiological Abuse p. 60

16 Toward a Praxiology of Design p. 67.

Notes:

"First published in Italian under the title La Speranza Progettuale."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Edition:

Reproduction of: Maldonado, Tomás New York, Harper & Row, 1972 (xi, 139 p. 21 cm.)

ISBN:

9781517907006

1517907004

OCLC:

1050141039

Publisher Number:

99980832110