Nason / Nesbit Chasing the City

The Neo Utopian Future
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-20298-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Historically many architects, planners and urban designers solicit idealistic depictions of a controllable urban environment made from highly regulated geometrical organizations and systematically defined processes. Rather than working as urban "designers" set out to control and implant external processes, we shift our approach to that of urban "detectives," who set out to chase the real city.

Charged with approaching the city more responsively, we investigate what we do not know, allowing the city to direct our work. As urban detectives, we have the ability to interrogate and respond to the elaborate patterns emerging from self-generated, internalized urban interactions. Chasing the City asks what are the current design trends shaping how we, first, understand the cities of today to, then, produce informed decisions on the continuously undefined evolving city of tomorrow. Intentionally the work here does not adhere to rudimentary notions of supposed singularities or rely upon past generations of idealistic utopian models. Rather, Chasing the City delineates current models of urban investigation that seek to respond to the nature of cities and develop heretofore-urban strategies as concurrently negotiated future urbanism.

This edited volume provides a collection of innovative design research projects based on shared notions of Chasing the City through three bodies of strategic frameworks: (1) Mapping, (2) Resource, and (3) Typology. This structure ultimately allows readers, as fellow urban detectives, access to exploratory tools and methods of detection that accumulate from our environs, both practical and projective in our chase of the city.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nason, Joshua

Nesbit, Jeffrey S

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Chasing the City in the Age of New Geography Chapter 2. Chasing the Neo-Utopian Paradox Chapter 3. Chasing the Awkward City Chapter 4. Chasing #Antidrone Chapter 5. Chasing the Logistical City and its Spatial Formations Chapter 6. Chasing and Rewiring Resource TerritoriesChapter 7. Chasing Ecologies in the Productive Void Chapter 8. Chasing Lines of Engagement Chapter 9. Chasing Strategies for the Post-Crisis Chapter 10. Chasing Ambiguous Conditions of Coexistence Chapter 11. Chasing A Genealogy of X Chapter 12. Chasing Composition