Title & Author:

Designing cities : critical readings in urban design / edited by Alexander R. Cuthbert.

Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003.

Description:

xii, 401 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Theory -- 1. The process of urban social change -- 2. The economic currency of architectural aesthetics -- 3. The postmodern debate over urban form -- Part II. History -- 4. The new historical relationship between space and society -- 5. Urban landscapes as public history -- 6. Harmonies of urban design and discords of city form -- Part III. Philosophy -- 7. Social justice, postmodernism and the city -- 8. The phenomenon of place -- 9. Recapturing the center: A semiotic analysis of shopping malls -- Part IV. Politics -- 10. Why are the design and development of public spaces significant for cities? -- 11. Reflections on Berlin: The meaning of construction and the construction of meaning -- 12. Tilted Arc and the uses of democracy -- Part V. Culture -- 13. Urban spaces as cultural settings -- 14. The urban landscape -- Part VI. Gender -- 15. Sexuality and urban space: A framework for analysis -- 16. Gender symbols and urban landscapes -- 17. What would a nonsexist city be like?: Speculations on housing, urban design and human work -- Part VII. Environment -- 18. Sustainability and cities: Summary and conclusions -- 19. Conservation as preservation or as heritage: Two paradigms and two answers -- 20. Zoöpolis -- Part VIII. Aesthetics -- 21. Aesthetic theory -- 22. The urban artifact as a work of art -- 23. Aesthetic ideology and urban design -- Part IX. Typologies -- 24. The third typology -- 25. Typological and morphological elements of the concept of urban space -- 26. Heterotopia deserta: Las Vegas and other spaces -- Part X. Pragmatics -- 27. The design professions and the built environment in a postmodern epoch -- 28. A Catholic approach to organizing what urban designers should know.

Summary:

This work provides a complex and integrated perspective on the field of urban design. It has been assembled to appeal to a broad range of readers interested in how the design of cities comes about.

ISBN:

0631235035 (alk. paper)
9780631235033 (alk. paper)
0631235043 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780631235040 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning.
Stadtplanung
Vormgeving.
Stadsplanning.
City planning Social aspects.
Aufsatzsammlung

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Cuthbert, Alexander R.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 226299
Call No.: HT166 .D38 2003
Status: Available