- Paperback: 16 pages
- Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers; Pap/Trspy edition (20 Mar 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 3037781599
- ISBN-13: 978-3037781593
- Product Dimensions: 29.7 x 21.1 x 1.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 513,118 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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22 transparent slides in a folder, and a 16 page brochure. Today's cities are hybrid entities based on multilayered and sometimes contradictory organizing principles. As complex networks of geographic, economic, political and cultural segments, they are caught up in a constant process of differentiation. How are we to understand such dynamic processes, especially the complex connections between individuals, whose movements and interactions leave traces in the urban landscape? This publication offers architects, urban planners and general readers interested in city design and growth a novel approach, a mapping tool that creates a framework for understanding the continually changing configuration of the city. With the aid of themed transparencies, the tool allows one to superimpose various realities in layers in order to create new urban connections, thus inviting readers to immerse themselves in the complexity of our cities.
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Intelligent learning tool... ?
11 Nov 2009
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It is quite hard to rate this publication. It comes in a beautiful case and the inside is around 18 transparent pages and a thin folder with essays and a blank piece of paper to make a background for diagrams. Each of the diagrams is made to be examined as a standalone or it can be examined with others to find possible connections.The diagrams themselves are beautiful and they are just nice to look at, then you can try to find sense in them and exercise your observation skill. The essays are short and not that much connected with the rest of the work (but that wasn't the point). On the last page there is a simple, 2-3 sentences long description for each diagram. It is all fun and easy to take up in a spare moment.
Why did I put a question mark in the end of the title? Well, to be honest not all of the diagrams make much sense (and the description doesn't help either). One of my friends suggested that they make as much sense as you would find in a plaster wall if you stare at it long enough. While I refuse to believe that there are some questionable elements: the energy is a driving force before all human interference with the surroundings but the Energy diagram has elements are placed on an even grid and there doesn't seem to be more energetic places in the city. Or the water flow - its shape doesn't seem to affect the city structure much. Even though there is a lot of combinations and some of them seem to fit perfectly and all of a sudden I've created a totally different connection of the aspects shown on the slides.
Well I guess whether you like it its a matter of openness on such things. I see it as a magnificent folder that instead of showing you a city plan and expect to see its logic gives you a focus on different aspects and maybe will point you to right observations when designing urban plans later. I wish it was standard tool to learn urban planning at school (my lectures where a bore) and recommend it to all students and architects who are not afraid to look differently at things.
Why did I put a question mark in the end of the title? Well, to be honest not all of the diagrams make much sense (and the description doesn't help either). One of my friends suggested that they make as much sense as you would find in a plaster wall if you stare at it long enough. While I refuse to believe that there are some questionable elements: the energy is a driving force before all human interference with the surroundings but the Energy diagram has elements are placed on an even grid and there doesn't seem to be more energetic places in the city. Or the water flow - its shape doesn't seem to affect the city structure much. Even though there is a lot of combinations and some of them seem to fit perfectly and all of a sudden I've created a totally different connection of the aspects shown on the slides.
Well I guess whether you like it its a matter of openness on such things. I see it as a magnificent folder that instead of showing you a city plan and expect to see its logic gives you a focus on different aspects and maybe will point you to right observations when designing urban plans later. I wish it was standard tool to learn urban planning at school (my lectures where a bore) and recommend it to all students and architects who are not afraid to look differently at things.
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27 May 2009
Format:Paperback
Work of art. Beautiful book by a clever author. You must buy this and frame the illustrations.
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