A radical normal : : propositions for the architecture of the city. / txt
- 199 p. : ill. ; photo. ; 23 cm. book
- Basics 135 A radical normal .
Includes index. Original German edition 2015.
Preface -- Serene Modernity: 11 A new simplicity -- 18 What remains of the modern project -- 25 The world of technology is not the world of people -- 30 Opaque transparencies -- 35 Gesture without meaning -- 40 The Spectre of monotony -- 44 Towards a reflective avant-garde -- Memory and sustainability: 53 architecture in the age of environmental crisis -- 62 A project of preservation -- 68 Maintaining the twentieth century city -- 77 Looking at architecture directly -- 83 Durability, closeness, and reduction -- 94 The architecture of urban density -- 101 Architecture and places -- Contemporary urban design: 113 for new foundation of the discipline of urban design -- 119 Building on the periphery: suburdia or city? -- 124 The historic centre as facility, cultural asset, and design manual -- 131 The city as a lounge? -- 136 Cars, cities, and streets -- 141 The architecture of the decelerated city -- 146 Affordable housing as avant-garde project -- 151 Variations of the urban block -- 159 Mindful utopias -- 165 The individual, society, and the architecture of the city -- 170 A city of many faces -- 175 Five personal suggestions for contemporary urban design -- 184 Building in times of uncertainty -- 191 Image credits -- 192 Notes -- 198 Sources --
A protest against the merciless globalisation of the city and its dissolution into faceless, inhospitable peripheries. This collection of essays aims at a more careful understanding of European cities and compellingly puts forward an alternative approach to urbanism
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