{"product_id":"unorthodox-ways-to-think-the-city-9780415724388","title":"Unorthodox Ways to Think the City","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book argues that architecture and the city and their processes can be better understood by drawing categories from disciplines that exceed the architectural and urban cultural context. It performs an open intellectual reading that traverses architecture and architectural theory, but also art theory and history, cartography, philosophy, literature and cultural studies, to unfold a series of âfiguresâ that are ambiguously placed between the representation and the construction of space in architecture and the city. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe paradigm and philosophy, the island and the city, the map and representation, the model and making and the questioning of form performed by dust, are explored beyond their definition, as processes that differently make space between architecture and the city and are proposed as unorthodox analytic techniques to decipher contemporary spatial complexity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book analyses how these âfiguresâ have been employed at different times and in different creative\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction 2. Paradigm: Notes For a Definition of Architecture as Paradigm 3. Island: The Possibility of the City as an Island 4. Map: From Description to Making 5. Model: from object to process 6. Dust: From Form to Transformation\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767525638487,"sku":"9780415724388","price":135.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unorthodox-ways-to-think-the-city-9780415724388","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}