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ISBN10: 0415837707, ISBN13: 9780415837705, [publisher: Routledge] Softcover Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.65 [AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2013]
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ISBN10: 0415837707, ISBN13: 9780415837705, [publisher: Taylor & Francis 2013-10-16, London] Softcover Language: ENG [London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2013]
ISBN10: 0415837707, ISBN13: 9780415837705, [publisher: Taylor & Francis 2013-10-16, London] Softcover Language: ENG [London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2013]
Paperback / softback. New. While designers possess the creative capabilities of shaping cities, their often-singular obsession with form and aesthetics actually reduces their effectiveness as they are at the mercy of more powerful generators of urban form. In response to this paradox, Designing Urban Transformation addresses the incredible potential of urban practice to radically change cities for the better. The book focuses on a powerful question, "What can urbanism be?" by arguing that the most significant transformations occur by fundamentally rethinking concepts, practices, and outcomes. Drawing inspiration from the philosophical movement known as Pragmatism, the book proposes three conceptual shifts for transformative urban practice: (a) beyond material objects: city as flux, (b) beyond intentions: consequences of design, and (c) beyond practice: urbanism as creative political act. Pragmatism encourages us to consider how we can make deeper and more systemic changes and how urbanism itself can be a design strategy for such transformations. To illuminate how these conceptual shifts operate in vastly different contexts through analysis of transformative urban initiatives and projects in Belo Horizonte, Boston, Cairo, Karachi, Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Paris. The book is a rare integration of theory and practice that proposes essential ways of rethinking city-design-and-building processes, while drawing critical lessons from actual exam ...
ISBN10: 0415837707, ISBN13: 9780415837705, [publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd] Softcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. [Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2013]
ISBN10: 0415837707, ISBN13: 9780415837705, [publisher: Routledge] Softcover Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers. [Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2013]
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