This title argues for a fundamental re-conceptualization and radical shift in the way cities are designed and built. Urbanists are the only professionals trained explicitly to envision the four-dimensional future of cities, including the dimension of time. Num Pages: 264 pages, 75 colour illustrations, 60 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AMVD; RPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 189. Weight in Grams: 907. . 2013. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Designing Urban Transformation
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415837693
ISBN 13: 9780415837699
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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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

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 examples of such processes.

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Authored by Inam, Aseem

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