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.
Author(s): Douglas Kelbaug
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 424
BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS......Page 10
FOREWORD......Page 16
PREFACE......Page 22
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 26
I URBAN PROCESS......Page 28
INTRODUCTION......Page 30
THE VIRTUES OF CITIES......Page 33
WORKING CITIES: Density, risk, spontaneity......Page 39
MEANINGFUL URBAN DESIGN: Teleological/catalytic/relevant......Page 41
MATHEMATICS OF THE IDEAL ROADTRIP......Page 51
CITY WALKING: Laying Claim to Manhattan......Page 61
GREEN MANHATTAN: Why New York is the greenest city in the U.S.......Page 72
STEWARDSHIP OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT: The emerging synergies from sustainability and historic preservation......Page 84
DROSS; RE-GENESIS OF DIVERSE MATTER......Page 88
THE SHARED GLOBAL IDEOLOGY OF THE BIG AND THE GREEN......Page 96
LEVITTOWN RETROFITTED: An urbanism beyond the property line......Page 102
THE MNEMONIC CITY: Duality, invisibility, and memory in American urbanism......Page 107
MAPPING EAST LOS ANGELES: Aesthetics and cultural politics in an other L.A.......Page 114
CELEBRATING THE CITY......Page 123
SKID ROW, LOS ANGELES......Page 125
II URBAN FORM......Page 130
INTRODUCTION: Further thoughts on the three urbanisms......Page 132
EVERYDAY URBAN DESIGN: Towards default urbanism and/or urbanism by design?......Page 142
WITHOUT END: Mats, holes, and the promise of landscape urbanism......Page 147
BOSTON’S NEW URBAN RING: An antidote to urban fragmentation......Page 154
INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE NEW SOCIAL COMPACT......Page 165
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MODERNITY?......Page 182
THE TOWN OF SEASIDE: Designed in 1978–1983 by Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co.......Page 195
THE IMPACT OF IDEOLOGY ON AMERICAN TOWN PLANNING......Page 203
NEW URBANISM AS A COUNTER-PROJECT TO POST-INDUSTRIALISM......Page 212
INTEGRATING URBANISMS: Growing places between New Urbanism and Post-Urbanism......Page 221
REM KOOLHAAS’S WRITING ON CITIES: Poetic perception and gnomic fantasy......Page 230
“BIGNESS” IN CONTEXT: Some regressive tendencies in Rem Koolhaas’ urban theory......Page 247
HABRAKEN AND KOOLHAAS: Two Dutchmen flying over Bijlmermeer......Page 256
HETEROTOPIAS AND URBAN DESIGN......Page 264
III URBAN SOCIETY......Page 272
INTRODUCTION......Page 274
BIG BROTHER IS CHARGING YOU......Page 277
COMMUNITAS AND THE AMERICAN PUBLIC REALM......Page 281
CONTESTING THE PUBLIC REALM: Struggles over public space in Los Angeles......Page 298
ACTION SPACE......Page 308
THE INSCRIPTION OF “PUBLIC” AND “CIVIC” REALMS IN THE CONTEMPORARY CITY......Page 318
ZONE......Page 324
DIS-ASSEMBLING THE URBAN: The variable interactions of spatial form and content......Page 330
TROPICAL LEWIS MUMFORD: The first critical regionalist urban planner......Page 340
THE LUXURY OF LANGUOR......Page 351
TECHNOSCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CULTURE: A provisional critique......Page 360
TECHNOLOGY, PLACE, AND THE NONMODERN THESIS......Page 372
IMMANENT DOMAIN: Pervasive computing and the public realm......Page 387
CITY OF DREAMS: Virtual space/public space......Page 399
INDEX......Page 410
