Der Urban Design Ecologies Reader stellt Architekten und Stadtplanern wichtige Tools zum besseren Verständnis heutiger städtebaulicher Maßnahmen bereit. Essays führender Experten spannen den Bogen zwischen historischen Entwicklungen und innovativen Ansätzen zur Bewältigung der globalen Herausforderungen rasanter Urbanisierungsprozesse und des Klimawandels. Die neuesten Ansätze in den Bereichen Stadtentwicklung, darunter Kernkonzepte wie Stadtarchitektur, Architektur großer Metropolen (Stichwort "Großarchitektur"), Wucherung der Städte, Megastädte (oder die informelle Stadt) und Metastädte, die…mehr
Der Urban Design Ecologies Reader stellt Architekten und Stadtplanern wichtige Tools zum besseren Verständnis heutiger städtebaulicher Maßnahmen bereit. Essays führender Experten spannen den Bogen zwischen historischen Entwicklungen und innovativen Ansätzen zur Bewältigung der globalen Herausforderungen rasanter Urbanisierungsprozesse und des Klimawandels. Die neuesten Ansätze in den Bereichen Stadtentwicklung, darunter Kernkonzepte wie Stadtarchitektur, Architektur großer Metropolen (Stichwort "Großarchitektur"), Wucherung der Städte, Megastädte (oder die informelle Stadt) und Metastädte, die von digitalen Technologien und dem Ökologiegedanken getragen werden, werden im Detail erörtert.
Brian McGrath is an Associate Professor of Urban Design at Parsons The New School for Design in New York. He taught at Columbia University in the Urban Design Studios for 15 years in a programme that grew 500% in student population between 1991 and 2005. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Thailand in 1998/99. He is currently a co-investigator on an interdisciplinary team on the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, a Long Term Ecological Research project where he coordinates a working group linking science research, public policy and design. McGrath has authored and contributed to many books and journals, he also teaches and lectures internationally.
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Introduction 8 Brian McGrath FROM THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CITY TO METROPOLITAN ARCHITECTURE The Architecture of the City 16 Aldo Rossi Collage City 27 Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter Cities Within the City 36 Oswald Mathias Ungers Chicago à la Carte 48 Alvin Boyarsky Life in the Metropolis or The Culture of Congestion 60 Rem Koolhaas The Making of Hong Kong 72 Barrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz and Thomas Kvan MEGALOPOLIS: THE NATURE OF SPRAWL The Territory of Architecture 86 Vittorio Gregotti Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies 98 Reyner Banham Learning From Las Vegas 108 Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi An Urbanism of Reform 122 Albert Pope Mega Urban Ecologies 146 Sharon Haar and Victoria Marshall Ecology of the City: A Perspective from Science 162 Steward TA Pickett THE MEGACITY People as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg 174 AbdouMaliq Simone Bangkok: The Architecture of Three Ecologies 184 Brian McGrath Sustainable Megacity Visions from São Paulo 196 Carlos Leite Frugality and Urban Life 212 May Joseph Design, Sustainability and the Global City 220 Christian Hubert and Ioanna Theocharopoulou THE METACITY Situationist Space 238 Tom McDonough The Manhattan Transcripts 248 Bernard Tschumi The Fragmented Metropolis 260 David Grahame Shane Designing Ecological Heterogeneity 272 ML Cadenasso The Elementary City 282 Paola Viganò Made in Tokyo 300 Momoyo Kaijima, Junzo Kuroda, Yoshiharu Tsunamoro Index 314
Introduction 8 Brian McGrath FROM THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CITY TO METROPOLITAN ARCHITECTURE The Architecture of the City 16 Aldo Rossi Collage City 27 Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter Cities Within the City 36 Oswald Mathias Ungers Chicago à la Carte 48 Alvin Boyarsky Life in the Metropolis or The Culture of Congestion 60 Rem Koolhaas The Making of Hong Kong 72 Barrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz and Thomas Kvan MEGALOPOLIS: THE NATURE OF SPRAWL The Territory of Architecture 86 Vittorio Gregotti Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies 98 Reyner Banham Learning From Las Vegas 108 Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi An Urbanism of Reform 122 Albert Pope Mega Urban Ecologies 146 Sharon Haar and Victoria Marshall Ecology of the City: A Perspective from Science 162 Steward TA Pickett THE MEGACITY People as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg 174 AbdouMaliq Simone Bangkok: The Architecture of Three Ecologies 184 Brian McGrath Sustainable Megacity Visions from São Paulo 196 Carlos Leite Frugality and Urban Life 212 May Joseph Design, Sustainability and the Global City 220 Christian Hubert and Ioanna Theocharopoulou THE METACITY Situationist Space 238 Tom McDonough The Manhattan Transcripts 248 Bernard Tschumi The Fragmented Metropolis 260 David Grahame Shane Designing Ecological Heterogeneity 272 ML Cadenasso The Elementary City 282 Paola Viganò Made in Tokyo 300 Momoyo Kaijima, Junzo Kuroda, Yoshiharu Tsunamoro Index 314
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