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008 140505s2015 enka b 001 0 eng
020 _a9780415717854 (hardback)
040 _erda
050 0 0 _aHT 165.5
_b.N86 2015
245 0 0 _aNow urbanism :
_bthe future city is here /
_cedited by Jeffrey Hou, Benjamin Spencer, Thaisa Way, and Ken Yocom.
260 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2015.
264 1 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bRoutledge,
_c2015.
265 _aFFB
300 _axiv, 313 pages :
_bcolor illustrations ;
_c25 cm.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"After more than a century of heroic urban visions, urban dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment towers, and slums. The contemporary cities as we know are more often the embodiment of unexpected outcomes and unintended consequences rather than visionary planning. As an alternative approach for rethinking and remaking today's cities and regions, this book explores the intersections of critical inquiry and immediate, substantive actions. The essays inside recognize the rich complexities of the present city not as barriers or obstacles but as grounds for uncovering opportunity and unleashing potential. Now Urbanism asserts that the future city is already here. It views city making as grounded in the imperfect, messy, yet rich reality of the existing city and the everyday purposeful agency of its dwellers.Through a framework of situating, grounding, performing, distributing, instigating, and enduring, these essays written by a multidisciplinary group of practitioners and scholars illustrate specificity, context, agency, and networks of actors and actions in the re-making of the contemporary city"--
650 0 _aCity planning.
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650 0 _aCities and towns.
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700 1 _aHou, Jeffrey,
_d1967-
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700 1 _aSpencer, Benjamin.
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700 1 _aWay, Thaisa.
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700 1 _aYocom, Ken.
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