Ryan, Brent D., 1969- author.

The largest art : a measured manifesto for a plural urbanism / Brent D. Ryan.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
©2017

xiv, 364 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm

Urban design in practice is incremental, but architects imagine it as scaled-up architecture - large, ready-to-build pop-up cities. This paradox of urban design is rarely addressed; indeed, urban design as a discipline lacks a theoretical foundation. In 'The Largest Art', Brent Ryan argues that urban design encompasses more than architecture, and he provides a foundational theory of urban design beyond the architectural scale. Ryan looks at three well-known urban design projects through the lens of pluralism: a Brancusi sculptural ensemble in Romania, a Bronx housing project, and a formally and spatially diverse grouping of projects in Ljubljana, Slovenia.0.

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0262036673 (hardcover alkaline paper)

City planning Philosophy.
Architecture and Planning.

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