{"product_id":"urban-design-ecologies-9780470974056","title":"Urban Design Ecologies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe discipline of urban design is undergoing a rapid expansion and realignment. It is experiencing a shift from a profession dominated by architects and planners, directed at urban development, to a more expansive set of practices engaging new forms of social and environmental ecologies, as cities worldwide adapt to economic restructuring, mass migrations and climate change. Bringing together classic and new texts from the last 40 years, this AD Reader focuses attention on the critical tools needed to understand how cities have been designed and constructed and then changed over time. This enables new ways of envisioning how cities must be conceived and adapted in the future to the dual conditions of rapid urbanisation and economic restructuring, coupled with unpredictable environmental conditions due to climate change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith its emphasis on both urban design and the ecological, this book brings together key articles that point the way forward for reconciling the often conflic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction 8\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eBrian McGrath\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFROM THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CITY TO METROPOLITAN ARCHITECTURE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Architecture of the City 16\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eAldo Rossi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCollage City 27\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eColin Rowe and Fred Koetter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCities Within the City 36\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eOswald Mathias Ungers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChicago à la Carte 48\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eAlvin Boyarsky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLife in the Metropolis or The Culture of Congestion 60\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eRem Koolhaas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Making of Hong Kong 72\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eBarrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz and Thomas Kvan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMEGALOPOLIS: THE NATURE OF SPRAWL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Territory of Architecture 86\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eVittorio Gregotti\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLos Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies 98\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eReyner Banham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLearning From Las Vegas 108\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eSteven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Urbanism of Reform 122\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eAlbert Pope\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMega Urban Ecologies 146\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eSharon Haar and Victoria Marshall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEcology of the City: A Perspective from Science 162\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eSteward TA Pickett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE MEGACITY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeople as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg 174\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eAbdouMaliq Simone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBangkok: The Architecture of Three Ecologies 184\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eBrian McGrath\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSustainable Megacity Visions from São Paulo 196\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eCarlos Leite\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrugality and Urban Life 212\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eMay Joseph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesign, Sustainability and the Global City 220\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eChristian Hubert and Ioanna Theocharopoulou\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE METACITY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSituationist Space 238\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eTom McDonough\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Manhattan Transcripts 248\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eBernard Tschumi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fragmented Metropolis 260\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eDavid Grahame Shane\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesigning Ecological Heterogeneity 272\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eML Cadenasso\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Elementary City 282\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003ePaola Viganò\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMade in Tokyo 300\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eMomoyo Kaijima, Junzo Kuroda, Yoshiharu Tsunamoro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 314\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402471186775,"sku":"9780470974056","price":30.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780470974056.jpg?v=1730480501","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/urban-design-ecologies-9780470974056","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}