Main entry:

Leventhal, David, author.

Title & Author:

Another kind : a survey of the possible city / David Leventhal, Lee Polisano ; with contributions by Saskia Sassen [13 others].

Publication:

New York, NY, USA : Actar, 2021.
©2021

Description:

346 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
A Survey of the Possible City -- Foreword -- 2010. The Screen Wins. Office as Spectacle -- 2011. A New Proximity. Granular Tower -- 2012. Cities Read and Cities Written. City Catwalk -- 2013. Finding a Place to Meet. Idea Incubator -- 2014. The Multidimensional City. Connected Mobility -- 2015. We Might Just Save Ourselves. Cluster, Village, Metropolis -- 2016. Transplanting Urbanity. Building as City -- 2017. The High-Rise Phylum. Loft Tower -- 2018. Gravity is Nothing. Vertical Nature -- 2019. City of Perpetual Motion. Distributed Culture -- 2020. The Next City

Summary:

The last decade has seen an accelerated evolution of typologies. Today's cities are marked by a growing digital presence and the emergence of a global sharing economy; shared spaces have increased our social and sustainable focus, drastically altered our understanding of ownership and responsibility, and redefined our experience of public and private domains. Such changes have in turn rewritten the demands on architecture, the role of the designer, and the power of the profession.0In Another Kind, PLP Architecture presents ten projects as case studies to examine the emergence of a new typological fluidity. These projects serve as anchors to survey the cultural landscape of the past ten years. Projects can no longer be traditionally codified and instead present themselves as assemblages of exterior influences, new cultural interests, and 21st century social habits. In Another Kind, projects are intertwined with essays by cultural observers both within and outside of the discipline. Through this multi-layered infrastructure and pluralistic dissection, Another Kind cracks the surface and explores the contents of architecture today. Marking this moment in time, PLP examines how we have evolved and speculates on what we can learn for the years that lie ahead.

ISBN:

1948765640 (paperback)
9781948765640 (paperback)

Subject:

City planning.
Sustainable urban development.
Urbanisme durable.

Added entries:

Polisano, Lee, author.
Sassen, Saskia, contributor.
Sassen, Saskia contributor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315749
Call No.: 315749
Status: Available