Twenty-First Century Urbanism

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4724-7089-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 136 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 412 g

This volume argues that the city cannot be captured by any one mode of analysis but instead is composed of the mobile, relational, efficient, sentient, and the phenomenological with all of them cast in new theoretical configurations and combined into one methodological entity. Rather than focusing on any one city or abstract analytical model, this book instead takes a multipronged theoretical and methodological approach to present the city as an intelligent affective organism – a sentient being.

It proposes that cities operate on a relational, mobile, and phenomenological basis through the mode of efficiency, calibrated by a profoundly complicated division of labor. Its starting point is that the city is a mobile unit of analysis, from its economic status to its demographic makeup, from its cultural configuration to its environmental conditions, and therefore easily evades our quantitative and qualitative methods of computation and comprehension.

Twenty-First Century Urbanism provides planning and urban design academics and students with a multifaceted approach to understanding the development of cities, encouraging the examination of cities through a myriad, non-linear approach.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sullivan, Rob

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1.The city: what?

2. The mobile city

3.The relational city

4. Efficiency and the city

5.The sentient city

6. Phenomenology and the city

Conclusion

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Rob Sullivan is a former lecturer in geography at the University of California, Los Angeles and the author of Street Level: Los Angeles in the Twenty-First Century and Geography Speaks: Performative Aspects of Geography. His book, The Geography of the Everyday: Toward An Understanding of the Given, will be published by the University of Georgia Press in the fall of 2017.