Fast-Forward Urbanism: Rethinking Architecture's Engagement with the City - Softcover

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9781568989778: Fast-Forward Urbanism: Rethinking Architecture's Engagement with the City
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ISBN 10: 1568989776 ISBN 13: 9781568989778
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2011

Synopsis

In the wake of recent failures in America's urban infrastructure, an emerging group of activist designers are calling on architects to rethink their relationship to the city. For them, the future of the American city lies not in modernism's large-scale master plans or new urbanism's nostalgic community planning. Instead, they favor working with the realities of urban space, finding hidden opportunities in what already exists in our cities; they eschew monolithic, top-down approaches. Fast-Forward Urbanism presents a mixture of essays, opinions, and design projects by well-known architects and theorists including Stan Allen, Will Alsop, Lars Lerup, and Keller Easterling. Equal partstheory and practice, their ideas lay the groundwork for the next American metropolis. Fast-Forward Urbanism will be a useful tool for designers as well as anyone working in the federal recovery effort, from policy-makers to engineers to builders to planners.

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About the Author

Dana Cuff is a professor of architecture and urban design at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she is also the founding director of cityLAB, a think tank that explores design innovations in the emerging metropolis.
Roger Sherman is principal of Roger Sherman Architecture and Urban Design in Santa Monica and cofounder of the cityLAB think tank.

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Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1568989776
ISBN 13 
9781568989778
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
288
Editor
Cuff Dana, Sherman Roger
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