Shannon Bassett

(Re)Stitch Tampa

Riverfront-Designing the Post-War Coastal American City Through Ecologies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

(Re)stitch Tampa is a design research platform. It includes essays and proposals from the international design ideas competition (re)stitch Tampa. Discourse framed by the underlying themes of the competition, examines (re)designing the city with natural systems and envisioning a new design for the city's civic realm through connective urban landscape hybridized with ecological infrastructure which (re)stitches the city back to its river. This publication critically examines these issues through essays, in addition to showcasing selected competition entries, the results of (re)stitch Tampa. The discourse distills the design schemes and examines their possibilities as viable alternative urban models for development, which reconsider the relationship of landscape to the city and urban redevelopment. It also proposes how the schemes might operate as transformative urban design agents and as the underlying connective tissue which (re)stitch the city to the river and bring the river and its ecologies into the city.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ACTAR / Actar D
• English edition
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 266mm x 210mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9781940291529
• ISBN-10: 1940291526
• Artikelnr.: 41758734

Autorenporträt

Shannon Bassett is an architect and urban designer, as well as a faculty member at the McEwen School of Architecture at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Her writing on both China's explosive urbanization and its changing landscape, as well as shrinking cities and the post-industrial landscape in North America, has been published in Topos, Urban Flux (Beijing), Canadian Architect and Garten + Landschaft. Her design research has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including at the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture (2012) and featured in the ensuing book publication. She was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant for (re)stitch TAMPA. She holds a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelors of Architecture with Distinction from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.