Urban Flotsam: Stirring the City

Urban Flotsam: Stirring the City
ISBN-10
9064503877
ISBN-13
9789064503870
Category
Architects
Pages
460
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
010 Publishers
Authors
Helene Binet, Raoul Bunschoten, Takuro Hoshino

Description

The manner in which global trends affect cities and increase instability is like letting a rising river loose on a house. Global trends create urban flotsam that forms a second skin of the earth. How is this visible and how can it be useful in urban planning? This book answers questions through examples. It contains a manifesto for a general debate of issues, a poetic setting of the theme of the second skin and case studies undertaken in urban situations. With splendid photographs and magnificent conceptual maps and diagrams, the book balances between urban theory, urban pedagogy and urban poetry.

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