Urban/Metropolitan Planning Policies, Civics, Political Activism & Social Action, Ecology - General & Miscellaneous, City Planning & Urban Design, Urban Planning & Studies
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Overview
Cities affect every person's life, yet across the traditional divides of class, age, gender and political affiliation, armies of people are united in their dislike of the transformations that cities have undergone in recent times. The physical form of the urban environment is not a designer add-on to 'real' social issues; it is a central aspect of the social world. Yet in many people's experience, the cumulative impacts of recent urban development have created widely un-loved urban places. To work towards better-loved urban environments, we need to understand how current problems have arisen and identify practical action to address them.Urban Transformations examines the crucial issues relating to how cities are formed, how people use these urban environments and how cities can be transformed into better places. Exploring the links between the concrete physicality of the built environment and the complex social, economic, political and cultural processes through which the physical urban form is produced and consumed, Ian Bentley proposes a framework of ideas to provoke and develop current debate and new forms of practice.
Editorials
Chris Kahle
...but his effort to push design theory into an active engagement with public users and to embrace ecological concerns, plus his excellent mapping of the design power bloc, make this a worthy contribution to the critical investigation of contemporary urban design theory and process.Book Details
Published
June 24, 1999
Publisher
Taylor & Francis, Inc.
ISBN
9780203006405