Loose fit city : the contribution of bottom-up architecture to urban design and planning / Maurice Mitchell, Bo Tang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, Maurice, author.

Tang, Bo, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 23 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

"Drawn from a lifetime's experience of shared city-making from the bottom up, within rapidly expanding urban metabolisms in Delhi, Mumbai, Agra, Kathmandu, West Africa and London, Loose Fit City is about the ways in which city residents can learn through making to engage with the dynamic process of creating their own city. It looks at the nature and processes involved in loosely fitting together elements made by different people at different scales and times, with different intentions, into a civic entity which is greater than the sum of its parts. It shows how bottom-up learning through making can create a more vibrant and democratic city than the more flattened, top-down, centrally planned, factory made version. Loose Fit City provides a new take on the subject of architecture, defined as the study and practice of fitting together physical and cultural topography. It provides a comprehensive view of how the fourth dimension of time fits loosely together with the three spatial dimensions at different scales within the human horizon, so as to layer meaning and depth within the places and metabolism of the city fabric."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

AcknowledgementsList of Illustrations and Credits00 IntroductionPart One: Context01 The Idea of Loose Fit02 Dimension and Fit03 The Remoteness of Mass Production and PlanningPart Two: Practice04 Exploring Loose Fit Within the City: Survey and IntentArchitect as Detective and Storyteller05 Fabricating Within the City: Process and ProductArchitect as MakerPart Three: Timely City-Making06 Form, Familiarity, Fit, Urban Order and the Human Horizon07 Loose Fit CityGlossaryBibliographyIndex.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed January 13, 2023).

ISBN:

1-315-52355-8

1-315-52357-4

9781315523576

OCLC:

1000341094