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Remaking Cities: An Introduction to Urban Metrofitting

Autor Tony Fry
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 aug 2017
Unprecedented challenges await the future of the world's cities. Accelerating population pressure, climate change, food insecurity, poverty and geopolitical instability - in the face of such problems our current attempts at producing a sustainable agenda for the world's cities appear fragmented and inadequate. Fresh thinking is needed.In Remaking Cities, renowned design theorist Tony Fry brings a conceptual design perspective to the challenge of urban sustainability and resilience. In a typically far-sighted and provocative work, Fry presents ideas and actions for 'metrofitting' - a new kind of practice in architecture and urban design. Metrofitting expands the technological concept of retrofit up to the city scale, placing social, cultural, political and ethical concerns at its heart. Metrofitting is not about visionary technology, it is about transforming existing cities by combining available resources with human creativity, prompted by new thinking about new and old urban problems. It requires overcoming outmoded Eurocentric assumptions of what constitutes a city, rethinking their forms and structures, and understanding their metabolic processes and social and economic functions. This book provides conceptually strong practical approaches that will ultimately change the whole way we view cities and the way the urban future is designed. Illustrated with international case studies of metrofitting in action, Remaking Cities will provoke and stimulate debate among architects, urban designers, and anyone concerned with the urban environment and social and cultural change.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474224154
ISBN-10: 1474224156
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 30 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Whereas most sustainable cities initiatives so far have been technologically-based, this book asks the reader to rethink the very nature of cities today. It is not about creating high-tech new cities - it is about what can be done in existing cities and in the fast-growing future megacities of the developing world

Notă biografică

Tony Fry directs The Studio at the Edge of the World, is Adjunct Professor, Creative Exchange Institute, University of Tasmania, Australia, and is Visiting Professor University of Ibague, Colombia. He is the author of twelve books, including Design Futuring, Design as Politics and Becoming Human by Design.

Cuprins

PrefaceIntroduction Part I: Contexts of Change: the limits of how we see cities today1. Cities Now2. Understanding the City as a Designing Event3. What Designs a City?4. The City, Humanity & Time5. Urban Imperatives6. New Imaginaries & the City7. Other Worlds are Coming8. Post-Sustainability Part II: Contexts of Action9. Metrofitting: Take Two10. Metrofitting, Thinking Otherwise11. Unlearning & Learning12. Metrofitting & the De-signing of Design13. Metrofitting & Urban Design Fictions14. Space, Time, Dwelling & Movement15. Metrofitting and Being in the City Part III: Introduction to the case studiesCincinnati Case StudyNew Cairo Case StudySelected BibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Re-Making Cities is a theoretically rich and compelling read which takes the reader on a thought-provoking journey through discussion on the future of cities. The intended intellectual contribution of the book is made very clear and the structure allows for a clear narrative whilst retaining a comprehensive critical edge.
By scaling up the logic of "re-directive" practice which he first outlined in Design Futuring, Fry offers us here one of the most compelling theses for how to turn our cities into real agents of sustainable change.
Tony Fry showcases the reality of the dramatic and unquestionable changes which will befall our cities, our nations, our planet, unless we adapt sufficiently to fast-changing circumstances.