02158cam a2200265Ii 4500 9781315753065 180706s2015 enkab ob 001 0 eng d 9781315753065 (e-book : PDF) 9781317619901 (e-book: Mobi) 9781317619918 (e-book: ePub) 10.4324/9781315753065 doi (OCoLC)958097833 HT165.5 .N69 2015 307.1216 N946 Now urbanism : the future city is here / edited by Jeff Hou. [et al.]. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2015. 1 online resource (xiv, 313 pages) Introduction -- Situating -- Grounding -- Performing -- Distributing -- Instigating -- Enduring -- Afterword. "After more than a century of heroic urban visions, urban dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment towers, and slums. The contemporary cities as we know are more often the embodiment of unexpected outcomes and unintended consequences rather than visionary planning. As an alternative approach for rethinking and remaking today's cities and regions, this book explores the intersections of critical inquiry and immediate, substantive actions. The essays inside recognize the rich complexities of the present city not as barriers or obstacles but as grounds for uncovering opportunity and unleashing potential. Now Urbanism asserts that the future city is already here. It views city making as grounded in the imperfect, messy, yet rich reality of the existing city and the everyday purposeful agency of its dwellers.Through a framework of situating, grounding, performing, distributing, instigating, and enduring, these essays written by a multidisciplinary group of practitioners and scholars illustrate specificity, context, agency, and networks of actors and actions in the re-making of the contemporary city"-- Provided by publisher. City planning. Cities and towns. Hou, Jeffrey, 1967- https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315753065 Click here to view. E-book 26815 26815 0 0 0 0 CURAJ CURAJ 2024-04-12 0 2024-04-12 2024-04-12 E-book