The Urbanism Reader: Design, Technology, Culture and the Future of Cities - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1350377902 ISBN 13 : 9781350377905

Editeur : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2025

Synopsis

Positioning design at the center of the debate, The Urbanism Reader brings together classic and contemporary readings to help designers understand the complexities of cities and urban design in the 21st century.

The selection of readings presented here is uniquely tailored to a design perspective for architects and urban designers - balancing social issues in urbanism with a clear focus on foregrounding design as an instrument for change in cities, and examining the outcomes and challenges of recent design theories, design methods, and technologies in the built urban environment.

Covering today's most urgent issues, 45 texts explore key topics in urbanism - from digital design technologies to smart cities, from the ongoing ecological crisis to public health and the impact of Covid-19, and from emergence and informality to economic inequity in global cities. Chapters cover cultural issues including diversity, indigenous knowledge, decolonization, social justice, and inclusion alongside technological developments, while a final chapter speculates on the future of urbanism through readings in AI, virtual reality, and the frontiers of current thinking in architecture and urban design.

The extracts are grouped by theme, each with an introduction to the historical contexts and guiding paradigms - helping design students, researchers, and professionals to make sense of the diverse field of theory and practice in the past, present, and future of global urbanism.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Stefan Al is an architect, urban designer and author, and Associate Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College, City University of New York, USA.

Tom Verebes is Tenured Professor in the School of Architecture and Design at the New York Institute of Technology, USA, and Director of OCEAN CN, based in New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1350377902
• ISBN 13: 9781350377905
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Éditeur: Al Stefan, Verebes Tom
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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