the future city is here Hou, Jefrey creator by Jeff Hou [Editor] Spencer, Benjamin Way, Thaisa Way, Thaïsa Ken Yocom text index 2014 monographic eng

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xiv, 313 p. ill. ; plans ; 25 cm. CONTENTS: Notes on Contributors ix -- Acknowledgments xiii -- Introduction 1 -- 1 Thick City , Now Urbanism / Jeffrey Hou , Benjamin Spencer , Thaisa Way, and Ken Yocom 3 -- Situating 11: 2 Messy Urbanism : Transformation and Transmutation of Cities under Globalization / Viren Brahmbhatt 13 -- 3 The Environmental Contradictions of High - Tech Urbanism / Margaret O ' Mara 26 -- 4 From Blues to Green : The Future of New Towns Worldwide / Deni Ruggeri 43 -- Grounding 59: 5 13,001 A Waste Odyssey / William Morrish 61-- 6 Contingent Ecological Urbanisms / Jon Christensen 78 -- 7 Processcapes : Dynamic Placemaking / Judith Stilgenbauer 92 -- Performing 107: 8 Nosotros ( " We " ) : Two Cultures of Sustainability and the " Present City " of Las Vegas / Daniel H . Ortega 109 -- 9 Making a Farm in the Heart of a City / Osamu Nishida and Arisa Nakamura 122 -- 10 Border Urbanities : Embodied and Enacted Performances in a Transnational City / Irma Ramirez 132 -- Distributing 147: 11 User - Generated Urbanism and the Right to the City / John Bela 149 -- 12 Open Source City / Laura Kozak 165 -- 13 The Kibera Public Space Project : Participation , Integration , and Networked Change Chelina Odbert and Joseph Mulligan , 177 -- Instigating 193 : 14 Forget about Utopia / Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner 195 -- 15 The Informal Urban Communities Initiative : Lomas de Zapallal , Lima , Peru / Benjamin Spencer , Susan Bolton , and Jorge Alarcon 206 -- 16 Shifting Landscape : reTHINKING Central and Eastern European Cities / Martin Joseph Barry 224 -- Enduring 241: 17 City Sink - Sinking Cities / Denise Hoffman Brandt 243 -- 18 [ GU ] Growing Urbanism : An Evolutionary Urban Ecology in Cascadia / Gundula Proksch , Joshua Brevoort , and Lisa Chun 259 -- 19 Pathways of Urban Nature : Diversity in the Greening of the Twenty - First - Century City / Andrew Karvonen 274 -- Afterword 287: 20 Cities and Survival / Thomas Fisher 289 -- Illustration Credits 299 -- Index 302 -- "After more than a century of heroic urban visions, urban dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment towers, and slums. The contemporary cities as we know are more often the embodiment of unexpected outcomes and unintended consequences rather than visionary planning. As an alternative approach for rethinking and remaking today's cities and regions, this book explores the intersections of critical inquiry and immediate, substantive actions. The essays inside recognize the rich complexities of the present city not as barriers or obstacles but as grounds for uncovering opportunity and unleashing potential. Now Urbanism asserts that the future city is already here. It views city making as grounded in the imperfect, messy, yet rich reality of the existing city and the everyday purposeful agency of its dwellers.Through a framework of situating, grounding, performing, distributing, instigating, and enduring, these essays written by a multidisciplinary group of practitioners and scholars illustrate specificity, context, agency, and networks of actors and actions in the re-making of the contemporary city" Edited by Jeffrey Hou, Benjamin Spencer, Thaisa Way and Ken Yocom. Includes bibliographical references and index. City planning Architecture Landscape Cities and towns HT165.5 N69 2014 307.1 9780415717854 9780415717861 2014013320 pucpr 150303 20250425102855.0 eng