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Urban design continues to grow as an increasingly important and expanding field of study, research and professional endeavour.

Distinguished by its broad scope and comprehensiveness on the subject of urban design, this new collection combines selected essays from both practitioners and academia.

Writing Urbanism is the ideal volume for both students, architects and urban designers.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Notes on contributors(p. ix)
• Foreword(p. xv)
• Preface(p. xxi)
• Acknowledgments(p. xxv)
• I Urban Process(p. 1)
• Introduction(p. 3)
• Observations
• The virtues of cities(p. 6)
• Working cities: Density, risk, spontaneity(p. 12)
• Meaningful urban design: Teleological/catalytic/relevant(p. 14)
• Mathematics of the ideal roadtrip(p. 24)
• City walking: Laying claim to Manhattan(p. 34)
• Preservation, re-use, and sustainability
• Green Manhattan(p. 45)
• Stewardship of the built environment: The emerging synergies from sustainability and historic preservation(p. 57)
• DROSS; Re-genesis of diverse matter(p. 61)
• The shared global ideology of the big and the green(p. 69)
• Community
• Levittown retrofitted: An urbanism beyond the property line(p. 75)
• The mnemonic city: Duality, invisibility, and memory in American urbanism(p. 80)
• Mapping East Los Angeles: Aesthetics and cultural politics in an other L.A.(p. 87)
• Celebrating the city(p. 96)
• Skid Row, Los Angeles(p. 98)
• II Urban Form(p. 103)
• Introduction: Further thoughts on the three urbanisms(p. 105)
• Everyday urbanism, landscape urbanism, and infrastructure
• Everyday urban design: Towards default urbanism and/or urbanism by design?(p. 115)
• Without end: Mats, holes, and the promise of landscape urbanism(p. 120)
• Boston's New Urban Ring: An antidote to urban fragmentation(p. 127)
• Infrastructure for the new social compact(p. 138)
• New urbanism
• Whatever happened to modernity?(p. 155)
• The town of Seaside: Designed in 1978-1983 by Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co.(p. 168)
• The impact of ideology on American town planning(p. 176)
• New Urbanism as a counter-project to post-industrialism(p. 185)
• Integrating urbanisms: Growing places between New Urbanism and Post-Urbanism(p. 194)
• Post urbanism
• Rem Koolhaas's writing on cities: Poetic perception and gnomic fantasy(p. 203)
• "Bigness" in context: Some regressive tendencies in Rem Koolhaas' urban theory(p. 220)
• Habraken and Koolhaas: Two Dutchmen flying over Bijlmermeer(p. 229)
• Heterotopias and Urban Design(p. 237)
• III Urban Society(p. 245)
• Introduction(p. 247)
• The public realm
• Big Brother is charging you(p. 250)
• Communitas and the American public realm(p. 254)
• Contesting the public realm: Struggles over public space in Los Angeles(p. 271)
• Action space(p. 281)
• The inscription of "public" and "civic" realms in the contemporary city(p. 291)
• Globalism and local identity
• Zone(p. 297)
• Dis-assembling the urban: The variable interactions of spatial form and content(p. 303)
• Tropical Lewis Mumford: The first critical regionalist urban planner(p. 313)
• The luxury of languor(p. 324)
• Technology
• Technoscience and environmental culture: A provisional critique(p. 333)
• Technology, place, and the nonmodern thesis(p. 345)
• Immanent domain: Pervasive computing and the public realm(p. 360)
• City of dreams: Virtual space/public space(p. 372)
• Index(p. 383)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Douglas Kelbaugh F.A.I.A. is Dean and Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He is a leading practitioner, teacher, and thinker in urban design, is the author of several books on urban design, and has taught design at eight schools of architecture in the USA, Europe, Japan, and Australia.

Kit Krankel McCullough is a lecturer at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. She is Principal of Kit Krankel McCullough Urban Design, and has significant and broad experience as a practitioner of urban design as well as having taught a variety of courses in urban design.