Urbanism Reader

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. His previous books include The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream which was a Wall Street Journal “best book to read” and Beyond Mobility: Planning Cities for People and Places which won the 2019 National Urban Design Award. 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. He is the author of over 150 books, chapters, articles and project features.

• List of FiguresIntroductionChapter 1: Spatial Heterogeneity, Diversity and Difference After Modernist PlanningRobert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown - Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter -Collage City Kenneth Frampton - Modern Architecture: A Critical HistoryChapter 2: Urbanism and Models of Design ComplexityChristopher Alexander - "The City is Not a Tree"Manuel De Landa - A Thousand Years of Nonlinear HistoryStan Allen - Architecture After GeometryPeter Eisenman - Diagram DiariesSanford Kwinter -Far from Equilibrium: Essays on Technology and Design Culture. Chapter 3: Intensities, Flows, Connectivity, and Networked UrbanismFrei Otto - Occupying and Connecting: Thoughts on Territories and Spheres of Influence with Particular Reference to Human SettlementMichael Weinstock - The Architecture of Emergence: The Evolution of Form in Nature and CivilisationManuel Castells - The Rise of the Network Society: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and CultureJonathan D. Solomon - Shaping the City: Studies in History, Theory and Urban DesignMichael Kubo, Farshid Moussavi, and Alejandro Zaera Polo - The Yokohama ProjectChapter 4: Density, the Compact City and Metropolitan CultureRichard Rogers - Cities for a Small Planet Rem Koolhaas - "The Future's Past"Winy Maas - “Datascape: The Final Extravaganza”Chapter 5: Ecology, Resilience, and Green InfrastructureAnne Whiston Spirn - The Granite GardenCharles Waldheim - The Landscape Urbanism ReaderKongjian Yu - "Beautiful Big Feet: Toward a New Landscape Aesthetic"Watson, J., H. Abukhodair, N. A. Naeema Ali, A. Robertson, H. Issaoui, and C. Sun - "Design by Radical Indigenism: Equitable Underwater & Intertidal Technologies of the Global South"Chapter 6: Health, Equity, and Liveable CitiesJan Gehl - Life Between Buildings: Using Public SpaceNicole Kalms - She CityWalter Hood and Grace Mitchell Tada - Black Landscapes MatterChapter 7: Emergent, Tactical, and Informal UrbanismAnanya Roy - "Urban Informality: Toward an Epistemology of Planning" Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner - "Rules of Engagement: Caracas and the Informal City"Alejandro Aravena - "Elemental: A Do Tank"Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia - Tactical UrbanismChapter 8: Evolutionary, Computational, and Parametric UrbanismGordon Pask - “The Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics”John Frazer - An Evolutionary ArchitectureTom Verebes - Masterplanning the Adaptive City: Computational Urbanism in the Twenty-first CenturyPatrik Schumacher - The Autopoiesis of Architecture: A New Agenda for ArchitectureBenjamin H. Bratton - "Parametricist Architecture Would Be a Good Idea"Michael Batty - Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and FractalsChapter 9: Virtuality, Extended Realities, and the MetaverseWilliam J. Mitchell - Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked CityCarlo Ratti and Matthew Claudel - The City of Tomorrow: Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the Future of Urban LifeAndrea Moneta - "Architecture, Heritage, and the Metaverse"Chapter 10: Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, and Technological DeterminismAreti Markopoulou - Learning Cities: Collective Intelligence in Urban DesignNeil Leach - Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to AI for ArchitectsMatias del Campo - Neural Architecture: Design and Artificial IntelligenceKate Crawford - Atlas of AI: Power, Politics and the Planetary Costs of Artificial IntelligenceBibliographyIndex

Cumulatively, The Urbanism Reader is less a definitive canon than it is a provocation, a reminder of the need for design techniques and political principles adequate to the complexities of contemporary urban life. To that extent, it succeeds not only as pedagogy, but as disciplinary self-reflection.