{"product_id":"masscustomised-cities-9781118915646","title":"MassCustomised Cities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when computational design and fabrication technologies ramp up to the urban scale? Though these innovative production processes are currently now largely limited to small-scale design projects, what will happen when they are applied to the vast scale of the 21st-century world city? Could new technologies enable an important shift away from mass production to increasingly bespoke and custom-designed systems? The introduction of standardisation and mass production processes in the 20th century saw the industrial city take on a repetitious and homogeneous quality through the duplication of component parts. Today non-standard, bespoke systems hold out the promise of realising a distinctive urbanism; characterized by the differentiation of serial production and the variation of simple parts that should lead to a more complex and compelling whole. Given the current pace and rate of urbanisation in Asia, the mass customization of the city is set to have imminent and far-reachi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditorial 05\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHelen Castle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Guest-Editor 06\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTom Verebes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction Cities and Their Specificities: Standards, Customs and the Making of 21st-Century Urbanity 08\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTom Verebes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMass Customisation and Standardisation: An Urban Dialectic 18\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMartin Bressani \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTowards a Distinctive Urbanism: An Interview with Kenneth Frampton 24\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTom Verebes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMiesian Grids and the Domain of Ink 32\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElena Manferdini\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStandardising Heterogeneity: Public Housing and the Absent(ed) Architect 40\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Bell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Mass Customisation to Design ‘Democratisation’ 48\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBranko Kolarevic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Modelling Complexity and Urban Form 54\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eM Christine Boyer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamsung Raemian Housing Masterplan, Haan River, Seoul, Korea: Contemporary Architecture Practice 60\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHina Jamelle and Ali Rahim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(In)formational Cities 64\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNeil Leach\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrowth Typologies, Localities and Defamiliarisation: Experiments with Artificial Urbanism in Sichuan, Guangzhou and Beijing 70\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJeffrey Huang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShanghai Lilong Tower Urbanism, Shanghai, China: Rocker-Lange Architects 76\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristian J Lange\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePermanence and Change: An Interview with Mark Burry 80\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDonald Bates\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Repulse Bay Complex, Repulse Bay, Hong Kong: Davidclovers 86\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Erdman and Clover Lee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCatalytic Urbanism: The Role of Customised Design Solutions in Delivering Transformational Urban Change 92\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElad Eisenstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSecond Development Zone, Umekita Area, Osaka, Japan: OCEAN CN Consultancy Network 100\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTom Verebes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEngineering Urban Complexity: Bespoke Integrated Design 104\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRob May\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchi-Union Architects, City of Breeze, Shenzhen Bay, Shenzhen, China 110\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhilip F Yuan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTechnological Transitions, Industrial Innovations and the Marching Chinese Urban Revolution: An Interview with Jerry Ku and Philip Vernon of E-Grow, Shanghai 114\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTom Verebes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAutomated Diversity: Gramazio Kohler Research New Morphologies of Vertical Urbanism 122\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJan Willmann, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCounterpoint Cities on the Edge of Chaos 128\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eColin Fournier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors 134\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406946050391,"sku":"9781118915646","price":25.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/masscustomised-cities-9781118915646","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}