Urban humanities : new practices for reimagining the city / Dana Cuff, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Todd Presner, Maite Zubiaurre, and Jonathan Jae-an Crisman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cuff, Dana, 1953- author.

Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia, 1958- author.

Presner, Todd Samuel, author.

Zubiaurre, Maite, author.

Crisman, Jonathan Jae-an, author.

Series:

Urban and Industrial Environments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns.

Architecture and society.

Architecture--Study and teaching--Case studies.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : The MIT Press, [2020]

Summary:

Original, action-oriented humanist practices for interpreting and intervening in the city: a new methodology at the intersection of the humanities, design, and urban studies. Urban humanities is an emerging field at the intersection of the humanities, urban planning, and design. It offers a new approach not only for understanding cities in a global context but for intervening in them, interpreting their histories, engaging with them in the present, and speculating about their futures. This book introduces both the theory and practice of urban humanities, tracing the evolution of the concept, presenting methods and practices with a wide range of research applications, describing changes in teaching and curricula, and offering case studies of urban humanities practices in the field. Urban humanities views the city through a lens of spatial justice , and its inquiries are centered on the microsettings of everyday life. The book's case studies report on real-world projects in mega-cities in the Pacific Rim--Tokyo, Shanghai, Mexico City, and Los Angeles--with several projects described in detail, including playful spaces for children in car-oriented Mexico City, a commons in a Tokyo neighborhood, and a rolling story-telling box to promote "literary justice" in Los Angeles.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Series Foreword

Preface

1: Introducing Urban Humanities

Interlude 1: Mexico City

2: The Lineages of Urban Humanities

Project A: Shanghai

Project B: Los Angeles

Interlude 2: Tokyo

3: Fused Scholarship: Practices of Urban Humanities

Project C: Tokyo

Project D: Shanghai

Project E: Tokyo

Interlude 3: Fukushima

4: The Practical Future

Project F: Mexico City

Interlude 4: Shanghai

5: Engaged Scholarship and Pedagogy

Coda: A Year in the Life of Urban Humanities at UCLA

Project G: Los Angeles

Project H: Mexico City

Interlude 5: Los Angeles

6: Conclusion: Assessing Urban Humanities

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262356992

0262356996

9780262356985

0262356988

OCLC:

1130310956