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Understanding cities [electronic resource] : method in urban design / Alexander Cuthbert

Author
Cuthbert, Alexander R.
Published
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxii, 330 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: Understanding cities -- Chapter summary -- 1.Theory/heterology -- Introduction: intuition, experience and science -- The method of science -- The method of social science -- Science and the urban -- Urban design heterologies -- Conclusion -- 2.History -- Introduction: history, truth and time -- History and progress -- Writing history -- History and mainstream urban design -- Prototypes -- The history of the future -- Conclusion -- 3.Philosophy -- Introduction: origins -- Influences -- Phenomenology -- Semiotics -- Political economy -- Conclusion -- 4.Politics -- Introduction: ideology and capital -- The urban political agenda -- Land rent -- The state and urban planning -- The public and counter-public realms -- Conclusion -- 5.Culture -- Introduction: capital, culture and the sign -- The urban symbolic -- Monuments and design -- Heterology and the New Urbanism -- Conclusion -- 6.Gender -- Introduction: the missing component -- The historical nexus -- Sex, gender and the female mind -- A feminist method? -- Flanerie as heterology -- Heterology, gender and design -- Conclusion -- 7.Environment -- Introduction: market meltdown, density and urban form -- Suburb-urbs -- Natural capitalism -- (Natural) ecology -- Density: form fundamentals -- High-rise buildings or vertical architecture? -- The edible city -- Density and the New Urbanism -- Conclusion -- 8.Aesthetics -- Introduction: issues in aesthetic judgement -- Aesthetic production, art and the city -- The contextualist method and aesthetic production -- The rationalist method and aesthetic production -- Regulation and design control -- Conclusion -- 9.Typologies -- Introduction: form and process -- Globalisation and urban form -- The mega-project and the spectacle -- Iconic space and neocorporatism -- Ambiguous space and the citizen -- Invisible space and the global migrant -- Slum and superslumspace -- Conclusion -- 10.Pragmatics -- Introduction: the power of polemic -- Language and communication -- Origins -- Urbanism and the manifesto -- The manifesto: 1900-45 -- The manifesto: post-1945 -- Conclusion.
Summary
For too long urban design has been seen as a subsidiary to architecture and urban planning, sitting somewhere between the two without establishing itself as a field of study in its own right. This book sets out to challenge that assumption and establish a comprehensive framework for restructuring urban design knowledge. Cuthbert builds upon the base of his previous books Designing Cities and The Form of Cities in this thought provoking book.
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ISBN
9780203817933 (electronic bk.)
0203817931 (electronic bk.)
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AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-323) and index.
Technical Details
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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