Understanding cities : method in urban design / Alexander R. Cuthbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cuthbert, Alexander R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Understanding Cities is richly textured, complex and challenging. It creates the vital link between urban design theory and praxis and opens the required methodological gateway to a new and unified field of urban design. Using spatial political economy as his most important reference point, Alexander Cuthbert both interrogates and challenges mainstream urban design and provides an alternative and viable comprehensive framework for a new synthesis.He rejects the idea of yet another theory in urban design, and chooses instead to construct the necessary intellectu

Contents:

Front Cover; Understanding Cities; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Understanding cities; Chapter summary; 1. Theory/heterology; Introduction: intuition, experience andscience; The method of science; The method of social science; Science and the urban; Urban design heterologies; Conclusion; 2. History; Introduction: history, truth and time; History and progress; Writing history; History and mainstream urban design; Prototypes; The history of the future; Conclusion; 3. Philosophy; Introduction: origins; Influence; Phenomenology

SemioticsPolitical economy; Conclusion; 4. Politics; Introduction: ideology and capital; The urban political agenda; Land rent; The state and urban planning; The public and counter-public realms; Conclusion; 5. Culture; Introduction: capital, culture and the sign; The urban symbolic; Monuments and design; Heterology and the New Urbanism; Conclusion; 6. Gender; Introduction: the missing component; The historical nexus; Sex, gender and the female mind; A feminist method?; Flânerie as heterology; Heterology, gender and design; Conclusion; 7. Environment

Introduction: market meltdown, density andurban formSuburb-urbs; Natural capitalism; (Natural) ecology; Density: form fundamentals; High-rise buildings or vertical architecture?; The edible city; Density and the New Urbanism; Conclusion; 8. Aesthetics; Introduction: issues in aesthetic judgement; Aesthetic production, art and the city; The contextualist method and aesthetic production; The rationalist method and aesthetic production; Regulation and design control; Conclusion; 9. Typologies; Introduction: form and process; Globalisation and urban form; The mega-project and the spectacle

Iconic space and neocorporatismAmbiguous space and the citizen; Invisible space and the global migrant; Slum and superslumspace; Conclusion; 10. Pragmatics; Introduction: the power of polemic; Language and communication; Origins; Urbanism and the manifesto; The manifesto:1900-45; The manifesto:post-1945; Conclusion; Postscript; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-73262-4

1-283-15117-0

1-136-73263-2

9786613151179

0-203-81793-1

9780203817933

OCLC:

732052597