The Art of City Making

ISBN-13: 9781844072460 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 248 str.

Charles Landry

Opis

Conventionally, city making is considered primarily in terms of architecture, engineering and land use planning, but this work offers new insights by integrating the arts of understanding human desires, bending the dynamics of economics to the city's needs and trading power for creative influence as aspects that create the city.

Spis treści

Part I: Overture * Cityness is Everywhere * Part II: The Sensory Landscape of Cities * Sensescapes Part III: Unhinged and Unbalanced * The City as a Guzzling Beast * Urban Logistics * The Geography of Misery * The Geography of Desire * The Geography of Blandness * Part IV: Repertoires and Resistance * Urban Repertoires * Urban Resonance * Borrowing the Landscape * Urban Rituals * A Coda: Urban Resistances * Part V: The Complicated and the Complex * The Forces of Change: Unscrambling Complexity * Aligning Professional Mindsets * Opening Mindsets and the Professions * Blindspots in City-Making * Part VI: The City as a Living Work of Art * Re-enchanting the city * Rethinking calculations of worth: The asphalt currency * Reconceiving the city * Remapping the city * Redelineating urban roles * Retelling the story * Part VII: Creative Cities for the World * Ethics and creativity * The Management of Fragility: Creativity and the City * Ten ideas to start the creative city process * Part VIII: Endpiece * 'Why I Think What I Think' *