1. Edition - January 2008
29.90 Euro
2008. 136 Pages, Softcover
- General Reading -
ISBN-10: 0-470-06637-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-06637-9 - John Wiley & Sons






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Short description
This issue of Architectural Design focuses on ways in which urban sprawl - areas of unstructured development with constantly expanding low-density housing - can be redesigned and rethought by interventions from architects and urban designers. Looking particularly at the issue of public place and the way that collective space can be redefined and articulated, this highly topical issue responds to the need for architectural design to engage in social issues and existing urban forms rather than attempting to create idealized conditions or merely iconic buildings.

From the contents
Editorial (Helen Castle)

Introduction: Urbanism Without Density (Rafi Segala and Els Verbakel)

The Public and the V2 (Bruce Robbins)

Terminal Distribution (Albert Pope)

Public Lifestyle in the Low-Density City (Alex Wall)

Old Dispersion and Scenes fro the Production of Public Space The Constructive Margins of Secondarity (Bruno De Meulder)

Walter and Asphalt
The Project of Isotropy in the Metropolitan Region of Venice (Paola Vigano)

Intermittent Cities.
On Waiting Spaces and How to Inhabit Transforming Cities (Claudia Faraone and Andrea Sarti)

String Block Vs. Superblock Patterns of Dispersal in Chain (Kjersti Monson)

In Our Beautiful Future (Martha Rosler)

Archipelago of the Negev Dessert A Temporal/Collective Plan for Beer Sheva, Israel (Refi Segal)

Peripheral Landscapes, El Caracol, Mexico City (Jose Castillo)

Urban Voids: Grounds for Change.
Reimagining Philadelphia's Vacant Lands (Deenah Loeb)

Urban [IM]plants.

Tactics for Recombining Landscape and Collective Space in Bonheiden, Belgium (Ells Verakel and Elie Derman)

User-Focused Public Space (m)Utopia in Denmark (Serban Cornea)

Royal Dutch Military Police Campus.
Zvi Hecker's Landscape Urbanism (Rafi Segal)

Ville-Port, Saint-Nazaire.
The Historic Periphery (Manuel de Sola-Morales)

Nam Van Square, Macau (Manuel Vicente)

Mur Island, Graz, Austria (Vito Acconci)

Discussion.
Architecture and Dispersal (Rafi Segal and Els Vervakel with Stan Allen, Marcel Smets, Sarah Whiting and Margaret Crawford)

Interior Eye.
Reinvigorating Childhood (Howard Watson)

Practice Profile.
Kieran Timberlake Associates (Jayne Merkel)

Userscape.
Natural Methods of Interaction Or Natural Interaction in the Everyday Digital World (Valentian Croci)

Spiller's Bits Putting the 'I' back into Architecture (Neil Spiller)

Unit Factor.
Radical Interface AA New Media Research Initiative (Joel Newman, Theodore Spyropoulos and Vasillis Stroumpakos)

Yeang's Eco-Files.
On Green Design (Part 3) The Basic Premises for Green Design (Ken Yeang)

McLean's Nuggets (Will McLean)