Everyday Urbanism: Michigan Debates on Urbanism I - Softcover

Speaks, Michael; Crawford, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1891197347 ISBN 13: 9781891197345

Publisher: University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 2005

Synopsis

Everyday Urbanism is one of three books in the "Michigan Debates on Urbanism" series that also features New Urbanism and Post Urbanism. Each book represents a distinct, inevitable, but still-emerging paradigm in contemporary urbanism, and is an elaboration on public debates held at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning during the winter of 2004. In this volume Margaret Crawford, co-author of Everyday Urbanism and Professor of Architecture at Harvard University, is the protagonist. She presents the case for an informal, bottom-up urbanism that celebrates and builds on everyday, ordinary life and reality, with little pretense about the possibility of a tidy or ideal built environment. Michael Speaks, Graduate Program Director at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and a widely published author, is the respondent. Rahul Mehrotra, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Michigan and award-winning Bombay designer, introduces and moderates the exchange.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This highly readable, evocative, and solution-oriented book is indispensable for both the design professional and the layperson interested in contemporary urban dilemmas.

About the Author:

John Leighton Chase is currently an urban designer for the city of West Hollywood, California. He is the author of A Sidewalk Companion to the Architecture of Santa Cruz, Exterior Decoration: Hollywood’s Inside Out Houses, and a forthcoming volume of collected essays, Glitter, Stucco, and Dumpster Diving.

Margaret Crawford is Professor of Urban Design and Planning Theory at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is the author of Building the Workingman’s Paradise: The Architecture of American Company Towns and editor of The Car and the City: The Automobile and Daily Urban Life in Los Angeles.

John Kaliski is a principal of Urban Studio, an architecture and city design firm in Santa Monica, California, and teaches urban studies and design studio at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. He is the author of numerous articles on urban design.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1891197347
• ISBN 13: 9781891197345
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80
• Editor: Mehrotra Rahul