Urban Design Ecologies

AD Reader

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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The discipline of urban design is undergoing a rapid expansion and realignment. It is experiencing a shift from a profession dominated by architects and planners, directed at urban development, to a more expansive set of practices engaging new forms of social and environmental ecologies, as cities worldwide adapt to economic restructuring, mass migrations and climate change. Bringing together classic and new texts from the last 40 years, this AD Reader focuses attention on the critical tools needed to understand how cities have been designed and constructed and then changed over time. This enables new ways of envisioning how cities must be conceived and adapted in the future to the dual conditions of rapid urbanisation and economic restructuring, coupled with unpredictable environmental conditions due to climate change. With its emphasis on both urban design and the ecological, this book brings together key articles that point the way forward for reconciling the often conflicting concerns of urbanism and environmentalism. Twenty-three texts are organised into four distinct sections, covering metropolitan architecture, the sprawling megalopolis, the megacity and the recently emerging metacity. These are broadly chronological and highlight the recent thinking behind some of the key urban developments, ranging from the art of traditional city-making covered by European architects and historians in the late 20th century to contemporary Tokyo described by Atelier Bow-Wow. Features original texts from: Reyner Banham, Rem Koolhaas, Aldo Rossi, Colin Rowe, David Grahame Shane, Bernard Tschumi, Oswald Mathias Ungers, and Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour. Contains newly commissioned texts from: Mary Cadenasso, Sharon Haar and Victoria Marshall, Carlos Leite, Steward TA Pickett and Albert Pope. Includes new translations of important essays by Vittorio Gregotti and Paola Viganò. Topics range from the European historic city to the Las Vegas Strip and the megacity of São Paulo, taking in the global sustainable city.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-11-23
Mått170 x 250 x 26 mm
Vikt1 021 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAD Reader
Antal sidor320
FörlagJohn Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN9780470974063

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Brian McGrath is an Associate Professor of Urban Design at Parsons The New School for Design in New York. He taught at Columbia University in the Urban Design Studios for 15 years in a programme that grew 500% in student population between 1991 and 2005. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Thailand in 1998/99. He is currently a co-investigator on an interdisciplinary team on the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, a Long Term Ecological Research project where he coordinates a working group linking science research, public policy and design. McGrath has authored and contributed to many books and journals, he also teaches and lectures internationally.

Introduction 8Brian McGrathFROM THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CITY TO METROPOLITAN ARCHITECTUREThe Architecture of the City 16Aldo RossiCollage City 27Colin Rowe and Fred KoetterCities Within the City 36Oswald Mathias UngersChicago à la Carte 48Alvin BoyarskyLife in the Metropolis or The Culture of Congestion 60Rem KoolhaasThe Making of Hong Kong 72Barrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz and Thomas KvanMEGALOPOLIS: THE NATURE OF SPRAWLThe Territory of Architecture 86Vittorio GregottiLos Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies 98Reyner BanhamLearning From Las Vegas 108Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown, Robert VenturiAn Urbanism of Reform 122Albert PopeMega Urban Ecologies 146Sharon Haar and Victoria MarshallEcology of the City: A Perspective from Science 162Steward TA PickettTHE MEGACITYPeople as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg 174AbdouMaliq SimoneBangkok: The Architecture of Three Ecologies 184Brian McGrathSustainable Megacity Visions from São Paulo 196Carlos LeiteFrugality and Urban Life 212May JosephDesign, Sustainability and the Global City 220Christian Hubert and Ioanna TheocharopoulouTHE METACITYSituationist Space 238Tom McDonoughThe Manhattan Transcripts 248Bernard TschumiThe Fragmented Metropolis 260David Grahame ShaneDesigning Ecological Heterogeneity 272ML CadenassoThe Elementary City 282Paola ViganòMade in Tokyo 300Momoyo Kaijima, Junzo Kuroda, Yoshiharu TsunamoroIndex 314

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