Urban Design Ecologies AD Reader
ISBN: 9780470974056 | 0470974052
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley
Pub. Date: 1/9/2013
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Urban Design Ecologies Reader gives architects and urban planners critical tools to understand urban design today. Featuring essays by leaders in the field, the book combines an historical perspective with forward-looking material on the global challenges of rapid urbanization and climate change.
The 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 p... MORE
The 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 p... MORE
Introduction
Brian McGrath
From the Architecture of the City to Metropolitan Architecture
The Architecture of the City
Aldo Rossi
Collage City
Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter
Cities Within the City
Oswald Mathias Ungers
Chicago à la Carte
Alvin Boyarsky
Life in the Metropolis or The Culture of Congestion
Rem Koolhaas
The Making of Hong Kong
Barrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz and Thomas Kvan
Megalop... MORE
The Territory of Architecture
Vittorio Gregotti
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies
Reyner Banham
Learning From Las Vegas
Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi
An Urbanism of Reform
Albert Pope
Mega Urban Ecologies
Sharon Haar and Victoria Marshall
Ecology of the City: A Perspective from Science
Steward TA Pickett
The Megacity
People as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg
AbdouMaliq Simone
Bangkok: The Architecture of Three Ecologies
Brian McGrath
Sustainable Megacity Visions from São Paulo
Carlos Leite
Frugality and Urban Life
May Joseph
Design, Sustainability and the Global City
Christian Hubert and Ioanna Theocharopoulou
The Meta city
Situationist Space
Tom McDonough
The Manhattan Transcripts
Bernard Tschumi
The Fragmented Metropolis
David Grahame Shane
Designing Ecological Heterogeneity
ML Cadenasso
The Elementary City
Paola Viganò
Made in Tokyo
Momoyo Kaijima, Junzo Kuroda, Yoshiharu Tsunamoro
Index
Brian McGrath is an Associate Professor of Urban Design at Parsons The New School for Design in New York. He taught at Columbia University in the Urban Design Studios for 15 years in a programme that grew 500% in student population between 1991 and 2005. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Thailand in 1998/99. He is currently a co-investigator on an interdisciplinary team on the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, a Long Term Ecological Research project where he coordinates a working group linking science research, public policy and design. McGrath has authored and contributed to many books and journals, he also teaches and lectures internationally.
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