The Urban Improvise: Improvisation-Based Design for Hybrid Cities - Couverture rigide

Kloeckl, Kristian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300243049 ISBN 13 : 9780300243048

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2020

Synopsis

A book for architects, designers, planners, and urbanites that explores how cities can embrace improvisation to improve urban life

The built environment in today’s hybrid cities is changing radically. The pervasiveness of networked mobile and embedded devices has transformed a predominantly stable background for human activity into spaces that have a more fluid behavior. Based on their capability to sense, compute, and act in real time, urban spaces have the potential to go beyond planned behaviors and, instead, change and adapt dynamically.
 
These interactions resemble improvisation in the performing arts, and this book offers a new improvisation-based framework for thinking about future cities. Kristian Kloeckl moves beyond the smart city concept by unlocking performativity, and specifically improvisation, as a new design approach and explores how city lights, buses, plazas, and other urban environments are capable of behavior beyond scripts. Drawing on research of digital cities and design theory, he makes improvisation useful and applicable to the condition of today’s technology-imbued cities and proposes a new future for responsive urban design.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Kristian Kloeckl is associate professor at Northeastern University’s School of Architecture and Department of Art + Design. He was previously a research scientist at MIT’s Senseable City Lab where he established the lab’s research unit in Singapore.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0300243049
• ISBN 13: 9780300243048
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 240