{"product_id":"urban-futures-9781119617563","title":"Urban Futures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiven the rapid evolution of concepts such as smart cities, who are the architects riding the wave of new possibilities for urban design? How do contemporary agencies find pathways to understand the challenges and opportunities presented by evolving urban technology, and how does architecture engage with the expanding pool of associated disciplines? How should schools of architecture and urban design engage with radical digitalised urbanism?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis issue of AD claims that this is contested territory. The two-dimensionality of planners' urban construct is as limited as engineers' predilection to zero-in and solve problems. Urban Futures contends that society needs a much broader professional brush than has been applied in the past: interdisciplinary urban design professionals who can reach across the philosophy and mundanity of urban existence with a creative eye. The issue identifies a selection of internally resourceful visionaries who combine sociology, geography, logistics a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Better to Make a Good Future than Predict a Bad One\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 A Socially Attuned Future: Memory, Geography and Urban Project – The Case of Metropolitan Barcelona\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Resisting Arrest: The Evolution of UNStudio\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Data-Informed Design: A Call for Theory\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Seeking an Urban Philosophy: Carlo Ratti and the Senseable City\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Perturbanism in Future Cities: Enhancing Sustainability in the Galapagos Islands through Complex Adaptive Systems\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7 Diving Deep into Unknown Unknowns: People, Cities, Technology, Architecture and Architects\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8 Augmenting Reality: (Big-)Data-Informed Urban Design and Planning\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9 Homes, Communities and Games: Constructing Social Agency in Our Urban Futures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10 ‘Small Pieces, Loosely Joined’: Practices for Super-local Participative Urbanism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11 From Digital Cities to Biocities: Harnessing the Power of the Digital Revolution to Reinvent the Urban Ecology Model\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12 Synaesthetic Architecture: A Building Dreams\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13 Data-Driven Urbanism: The Balance Between Spatial Intelligence and Design Craftsmanship\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 14 Urban Experiment: Taking Off on the Wind of AI\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 15 A Perennial Practice: Designing Between Urban Landscape and Urban Network\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 16 Architects Without Architecture: How Transdisciplinary Studios Reposition for 21st-Century Challenges\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 17 From ‘T’ to ‘π’ (pi)-shaped people: Better Urban Practice through Dual Depth in Architecture and Planning Education\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 18 Smart Who? Collective Intelligence Urban Design Models\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 19 From Another Perspective – Cyberspace: Speculative Futures of the Recent Past\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407100551511,"sku":"9781119617563","price":29.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781119617563.jpg?v=1730498179","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/urban-futures-9781119617563","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}