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Business as unusual : radical ideas for cities / Julian Bolleter.
Fine Arts Library HT169.A8 B655 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bolleter, Julian, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable urban development--Australia.
- Sustainable urban development.
- City planning--Australia.
- City planning.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Regional planning--Australia.
- Regional planning.
- urban sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Radical ideas for cities.
- Place of Publication:
- Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2025.
- Summary:
- "When planning thinking collapses into prescriptive dogma, it becomes challenging to imagine alternatives to business as usual and possible innovations wither on the vine. This book trawls through the archives for long-forgotten, sometimes dangerous, ideas and draws upon unfashionable or emerging theories and techniques for innovation to penetrate beyond business-as-usual approaches. It opens a conversation through a series of hand-drawn diagrams of alternative ways of dwelling in Australian cities, which have applications in sprawling cities worldwide."-- Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Body: alternative urbanisms. Bunnings-lite urbanism
- Car-phobic urbanism
- Charter urbanism
- Deregulation urbanism
- Donga urbanism
- Dumb urbanism
- Edible urbanism
- Effluent urbanism
- Enlightenment urbanism
- Eternal urbanism
- Fair-go urbanism
- Hamlet urbanism
- Incentive urbanism
- Inside out urbanism
- Island urbanism
- Kibbutz urbanism
- Lifeboat urbanism
- Laneway urbanism
- Modern urbanism
- National park urbanism
- Nature-play urbanism
- Radburn urbanism
- Resignation urbanism
- Shame urbanism
- Supergraphic urbanism
- Symbolic urbanism
- Tax-break urbanism
- Tinder urbanism
- Undercover urbanism
- Woollies-lite urbanism
- Conclusion: towards business as usual.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781760803308
- 1760803308
- OCLC:
- 1570561587
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