Description
Book SynopsisThis book positions Ulaanbaatar as a unique case and one that allows us to view our urban world differently. Operating as a primordial soup of emerging conditions, Ulaanbaatar is conceived as an incubator for alternative urban concepts. The book rejects the agency of the masterplan as an effective tool in emerging urban conditions and instead positions the framework as a tool for incremental urbanism.
Although specific to the Ger districts of Mongolia, the story of how people, communities, planners, and politicians are grappling with the effects of becoming urban remains one of the critical issues facing the 21st century. How this process will be materialised and organised spatially, and by whom, will have profound ramifications on the climate and the social and economic make-up of our future cities.
Table of Contents7 BECOMING URBAN 27 SETTLING THE NOMADS NOMADIC LIFE URBAN LIFE GER DISTRICT LIFE 73 PROTOTYPING BUILDING AS RESEARCH ADAPTIVE INFRASTRUCTURE ENABLING COMMUNITY TRANSFORMING AND UPGRADING THE GER 127 INCREMENTAL URBAN STRATEGY 141 INCREMENTAL DEVELOPMENT MANUAL 173 FRAMEWORK AS METHOD 186 ENDNOTES 190 CREDITS
