|  | McGrath, Brian (ed.)
Urban Design Ecologies
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AD Reader
 1. Edition November 2012
38.90 Euro
2012. 320 Pages, Softcover
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ISBN 978-0-470-97405-6 - John Wiley & Sons
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Urban Design Ecologies Reader gives architects and urban planners critical tools to understand urban design today. Featuring essays by leaders in the field, the book combines an historical perspective with forward-looking material on the global challenges of rapid urbanization and climate change. It highlights the recent thinking in urban development, covering key concepts such as the architecture of the city, metropolitan architecture (or big architecture), the nature of sprawl, the mega city (or the informal city), and the meta city, created by digital technologies and ecological thinking.
From the contents
Introduction 8
Brian McGrath
FROM THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CITY TO METROPOLITAN ARCHITECTURE
The Architecture of the City 16
Aldo Rossi
Collage City 27
Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter
Cities Within the City 36
Oswald Mathias Ungers
Chicago à la Carte 48
Alvin Boyarsky
Life in the Metropolis or The Culture of Congestion 60
Rem Koolhaas
The Making of Hong Kong 72
Barrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz and Thomas Kvan
MEGALOPOLIS: THE NATURE OF SPRAWL
The Territory of Architecture 86
Vittorio Gregotti
Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies 98
Reyner Banham
Learning From Las Vegas 108
Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi
An Urbanism of Reform 122
Albert Pope
Mega Urban Ecologies 146
Sharon Haar and Victoria Marshall
Ecology of the City: A Perspective from Science 162
Steward TA Pickett
THE MEGACITY
People as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg 174
AbdouMaliq Simone
Bangkok: The Architecture of Three Ecologies 184
Brian McGrath
Sustainable Megacity Visions from São Paulo 196
Carlos Leite
Frugality and Urban Life 212
May Joseph
Design, Sustainability and the Global City 220
Christian Hubert and Ioanna Theocharopoulou
THE METACITY
Situationist Space 238
Tom McDonough
The Manhattan Transcripts 248
Bernard Tschumi
The Fragmented Metropolis 260
David Grahame Shane
Designing Ecological Heterogeneity 272
ML Cadenasso
The Elementary City 282
Paola Viganò
Made in Tokyo 300
Momoyo Kaijima, Junzo Kuroda, Yoshiharu Tsunamoro
Index 314
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