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…mehr
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Tony Fry is Principal of The Studio at the Edge of the World, Tasmania, Adjunct Professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia and Visiting Professor at Universidad de Ibagué, Colombia. He is an award-winning designer, cultural theorist, educator and author. He has held academic positions in Australia and internationally and is the author of sixteen books, including Design Futuring (Bloomsbury, 2009); Design as Politics (Bloomsbury, 2011), Becoming Human By Design (Bloomsbury, 2012), Remaking Cities (Bloomsbury, 2017), Defuturing (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Writing Design Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Introduction Part I: Contexts of Change: the limits of how we see cities today 1. Cities Now 2. Understanding the City as a Designing Event 3. What Designs a City? 4. The City, Humanity & Time 5. Urban Imperatives 6. New Imaginaries & the City 7. Other Worlds are Coming 8. Post-Sustainability Part II: Contexts of Action 9. Metrofitting: Take Two 10. Metrofitting, Thinking Otherwise 11. Unlearning & Learning 12. Metrofitting & the De-signing of Design 13. Metrofitting & Urban Design Fictions 14. Space, Time, Dwelling & Movement 15. Metrofitting and Being in the City Part III: Introduction to the case studies Cincinnati Case Study New Cairo Case Study Selected Bibliography Index
Preface Introduction Part I: Contexts of Change: the limits of how we see cities today 1. Cities Now 2. Understanding the City as a Designing Event 3. What Designs a City? 4. The City, Humanity & Time 5. Urban Imperatives 6. New Imaginaries & the City 7. Other Worlds are Coming 8. Post-Sustainability Part II: Contexts of Action 9. Metrofitting: Take Two 10. Metrofitting, Thinking Otherwise 11. Unlearning & Learning 12. Metrofitting & the De-signing of Design 13. Metrofitting & Urban Design Fictions 14. Space, Time, Dwelling & Movement 15. Metrofitting and Being in the City Part III: Introduction to the case studies Cincinnati Case Study New Cairo Case Study Selected Bibliography Index
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