Main entry:

Landry, Charles, 1948- author.

Title & Author:

The civic city in a nomadic world / words & images by Charles Landry.

Publication:

Rotterdam : Nai010 Publishers, [2017]
©2017

Description:

288 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-285).
1. The World in Motion -- The Overture -- The Return of the Nomads -- Nomads: Old & New -- Nomad Lifestyles -- Expats & Attachment -- Researchers & Scholars -- Senses of the Self -- Citizenship: Bought & Sold -- Nomad Hubs & Hotspots -- The Great Migration -- Escape & Sanctuary -- Diasporas & Destinations -- The Pure & the Impure -- The Search & the Experience -- Tourists & Travellers -- Seeking Sex & Pleasure -- Beauty & Health -- Parasites & Urban Life -- Organisms & Pathogens -- Corrosive Criminality -- Population Matters -- Cities & the Anthropocene Age -- Cities & the Culture Mix -- Ideas & Ideologies -- Language & Diffusion -- Invading Space & Place -- The Brand & the Bland -- The Frenzied Flow -- Escalating Pace & Finance -- The Logistics of Things -- The Virtual & the Real -- More moves & faster & faster -- 2. The City in Motion -- The Past & the Future -- Histories & Heritage -- Timeless Themes -- The Present & the Dream -- The Power of Concepts -- Citizen & Nomad Planning -- Place & Space Trajectory -- The City 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 &... -- The Digitizing City: Influence & Impact -- The Return of the City -- Transition & Change -- The Nomadic Meme & Creativity -- The Sensory Landscape of Cities -- The City as a Communications Device -- The Decline of Distinctiveness -- 3. Zones of Encounter -- Meeting & Mixing -- Connections: Shallow & Deep -- Parallel Lives -- The Civil & the Civic -- The Trajectories of Empowerment -- The City as a Civilization -- Civic Creativity: The Next Step -- Psychology & the City -- Cities & the Archaic Mind -- Place Purpose & Well-being -- Signals of the Civic -- Reconstructing the Civic -- The Relevance of Resistance -- There can be another City -- 4. Places of Empathy -- Patterns of Progress -- Xenopolis or Cosmopolis -- Urbanity: Its Past & Futures -- Ten Themes of Urbanity -- The Creative Bureaucracy.

Summary:

We are in the midst of redesigning the world and all its systems as we witness the biggest mass movement of people, goods, factories, frenzied finance and ideas in history. Vast flows make the new norm nomadic. Yet there is a yearning for belonging, distinctiveness and identity as the 'anytime, anyplace, anywhere' phenomenon enabled by digitization is changing how we interact with space, place and time. Old certainties are crumbling and systems are breaking at escalating speed. Apprehension is in the air as we invent a different kind of city. This is the Civic City. It tries to find a pathway through the major faultlines, dilemmas and potentials of our time-shared lives, inequality, environmental distress and urban vitality. This is a place where we reinvent anchorage, an urban commons, connection, but also possibility and inspiration. In this book, the inventor of the Creative City concept helps us navigate the evolving urban landscapes and its potential.

ISBN:

9789462083721 hardback
946208372X hardback
9789462083882 paperback
9462083886 paperback
e-book
9789462083004

Subject:

City planning.
71.14 urban society.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306120
Call No.: BIB 249544
Status: Available